Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.

Digest: The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of nonlethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of nonlethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
• Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
• Relating to: Relating to training of armed public safety officers.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of nonlethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
Relating to: Relating to training of armed public safety officers.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3515
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 the training for officers with guns has to include two hours of non-
lethal techniques for each hour of lethal techniques. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Provides that the training required to obtain certification as a public safety officer armed with
a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal techniques for each hour of training in
lethal techniques.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to training of armed public safety officers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 181A.355 to
181A.689.
SECTION 2. The training required under ORS 181A.410 to obtain certification as a public
safety officer armed with a firearm must include two hours of training in nonlethal tech-
niques for each hour of training in lethal techniques.
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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