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HB2646 • 2025

Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.

Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.

Crime
Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.

Digest: The Act creates a new crime about disclosing private data.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act creates a new crime about disclosing private data.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
  • Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.
  • Punishes by a maximum of six months' imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act creates a new crime about disclosing private data. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information. Punishes by a maximum of six months' imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both.
Relating to: Relating to the disclosure of private information.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2646
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (Presession filed.)
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 creates a new crime about disclosing private data. (Flesch Readability Score:
69.7).
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information. Punishes by a maximum of six
months’ imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the disclosure of private information; creating new provisions; and amending ORS
161.005.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful disclosure of private information
if:
(a) The person, with the intent to stalk, harass or injure another person, knowingly
causes the other person’s personal information to be disclosed;
(b) The person knows or reasonably should have known that the other person did not
consent to the disclosure; and
(c)(A) The other person is stalked or injured as a result of the disclosure; or
(B) The other person is harassed by the disclosure, and a reasonable person would be
harassed by the disclosure.
(2) Unlawful disclosure of private information is a Class B misdemeanor.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Disclose” includes, but is not limited to, transfer, publish, distribute, exhibit, adver-
tise and offer.
(b) “Harass” means to subject another to severe emotional distress such that the other
person experiences anxiety, fear, torment or apprehension that may or may not result in a
physical manifestation of severe emotional distress or a mental health diagnosis and is pro-
tracted rather than merely trivial or transitory.
(c) “Injure” means to subject another to bodily injury or death.
(d) “Personal information” means:
(A) A person’s home address, personal electronic mail address, personal phone number
or Social Security number;
(B) Contact information for a person’s employer;
(C) Contact information for a family member of a person;
(D) Photographs of a person’s child; or
(E) Identification of the school that a person’s child attends.
(e) “Stalk” means conduct constituting the crime of stalking under ORS 163.732 or con-
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 3650
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duct that would give rise to an action for issuance or violation of a stalking protective order
under ORS 30.866.
SECTION 2.
ORS 161.005 is amended to read:
161.005. ORS 161.005 to 161.055, 161.065, 161.085 to 161.125, 161.150 to 161.175, 161.190 to
161.275, 161.290 to 161.373, 161.405 to 161.485, 161.505 to 161.585, 161.605, 161.615 to 161.685, 161.705
to 161.737, 162.005, 162.015 to 162.035, 162.055 to 162.115, 162.135 to 162.205, 162.225 to 162.375,
162.405 to 162.425, 162.465, 163.005, 163.095, 163.107, 163.115, 163.125 to 163.145, 163.149, 163.160 to
163.208, 163.191, 163.196, 163.215 to 163.257, 163.261, 163.263, 163.264, 163.266, 163.275, 163.285,
163.305 to 163.467, 163.429, 163.432, 163.433, 163.472, 163.505 to 163.575, 163.665 to 163.693, 163.700,
163.701, 163.715, 164.005, 164.015 to 164.135, 164.138, 164.140, 164.205 to 164.270, 164.305 to 164.377,
164.395 to 164.415, 164.805, 164.857, 164.886, 165.002 to 165.102, 165.109, 165.118, 165.805, 165.815,
166.005 to 166.095, 166.119, 166.125, 166.128, 166.350, 166.382, 166.384, 166.660, 167.002 to 167.027,
167.057, 167.060 to 167.100, 167.117, 167.122 to 167.162, 167.203 to 167.252, 167.310 to 167.340, 167.350,
167.810 and 167.820 and section 1 of this 2025 Act shall be known and may be cited as Oregon
Criminal Code of 1971.
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