Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study incorporating deflection training into the training required of police officers.

Plain English Breakdown

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

Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study incorporating deflection training into the training required of police officers.

Digest: The Act tells DPSST to look at training police on deflection and make a report.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells DPSST to look at training police on deflection and make a report.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
• Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study incorporating deflection training into the training required of police officers.
• Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

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.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells DPSST to look at training police on deflection and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study incorporating deflection training into the training required of police officers. Directs the department 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 public safety training.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2784
Sponsored by Representative SMITH G (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 tells DPSST to look at training police on deflection and make a report. (Flesch
Readability Score: 73.1).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study incorporating de-
flection training into the training required of police officers. Directs the department 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 public safety training.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training shall study incor-
porating deflection training into the training required of police officers. The department 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 related 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.
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