HB2759 • 2025

Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department.

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

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Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department.

Digest: The Act makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior.
(Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department.
Directs the office to conduct audits of noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts and report incidents of judicial bias or egregious behavior to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial Department. Directs the office to conduct audits of noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts and report incidents of judicial bias or egregious behavior to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability.
Relating to: Relating to quality assurance in the Judicial Department.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2759
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 makes an office in OJD to do audits in circuit courts and report bad behavior.
(Flesch Readability Score: 70.1).
Establishes the Office of Quality Assurance as an independent office within the Judicial De-
partment. Directs the office to conduct audits of noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts and
report incidents of judicial bias or egregious behavior to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and
the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to quality assurance in the Judicial Department.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Office of Quality Assurance is established as an independent office
within the Judicial Department.
(2) The office shall adopt rules for:
(a) Implementing a statewide randomized audit schedule for the circuit courts that in-
cludes at least five unannounced audits of noncriminal proceedings in each circuit court each
year.
(b) Reporting to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the quality of court pro-
ceedings for noncriminal proceedings in the circuit courts.
(c) Reporting instances of judicial bias or egregious behavior observed during an audit
to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Commission on Judicial Fitness and Dis-
ability within 10 business days after the incident occurred.
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 2488