HB2503 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect on rates of recidivism of different dispositional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges.

Crime

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect on rates of recidivism of different dispositional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges.

Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study rates of drug crime recidivism.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study rates of drug crime recidivism.
(Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect on rates of recidivism of different dispositional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges.
Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study rates of drug crime recidivism. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8).
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect on rates of recidivism of different dispositional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to controlled substance offenses.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2503
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Joint Interim Committee
on Addiction and Community Safety Response for Representative Jason Kropf)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act directs the CJC to study rates of drug crime recidivism. (Flesch Readability
Score: 74.8).
Requires the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the effect on rates of recidivism of
different dispositional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges. Directs the commission
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not
later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to controlled substance offenses.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall study how different disposi-
tional outcomes for drug enforcement misdemeanor charges affect rates of recidivism. The
commission shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to the judiciary no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3253