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HB3368 • 2025

Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.

Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Boice
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.

Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.

Digest: The Act says that DDAs will be paid by the state salary plan.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act says that DDAs will be paid by the state salary plan.
  • The Act tells the state to pay a county for the salary of one DDA and half of the salary of other DDAs appointed by the DA.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
  • Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.

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. 2025-01-30 House

    Referred to Judiciary.

  3. 2025-01-28 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that DDAs will be paid by the state salary plan. The Act tells the state to pay a county for the salary of one DDA and half of the salary of other DDAs appointed by the DA. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan. Provides for the state to reimburse a county for the salary of one deputy district attorney and half of the salary of other deputy district attorneys appointed by the district attorney.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to district attorneys; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3368
Sponsored by Representative BOICE
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 says that DDAs will be paid by the state salary plan. The Act tells the state
to pay a county for the salary of one DDA and half of the salary of other DDAs appointed by the
DA. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.7).
Provides for deputy district attorneys to be paid salaries according to the state salary plan.
Provides for the state to reimburse a county for the salary of one deputy district attorney and half
of the salary of other deputy district attorneys appointed by the district attorney.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to district attorneys; creating new provisions; amending ORS 8.760; and prescribing an ef-
fective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 8.760 is amended to read:
8.760. The county court or board of county commissioners may empower the district attorney
to appoint one or more deputy district attorneys [ whose compensation shall be fixed by the county
court or board of county commissioners and paid ] who shall be paid monthly salaries as adopted
in the salary plan provided for in ORS 240.240 (2) out of the county funds in the same manner
as county officers are paid. The state shall reimburse a county for the salary of one deputy
district attorney and half of the salary of the other deputy district attorneys appointed by
the district attorney of the county.
SECTION 2. (1) The amendments to ORS 8.760 by section 1 of this 2025 Act become op-
erative on January 1, 2026.
(2) A county and the state may take any action before the operative date specified in
subsection (1) of this section to enable the county or the state to exercise, on and after the
effective date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions and pow-
ers conferred on the state and the county by the amendments to ORS 8.760 by section 1 of
this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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