HB3524 • 2025

Requires the Department of Corrections to study when medications can and should be given involuntarily to adults in custody.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Mannix
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.

Requires the Department of Corrections to study when medications can and should be given involuntarily to adults in custody.

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study when medications may be given to adults in custody.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study when medications may be given to adults in custody.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study when medications can and should be given involuntarily to adults in custody.
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

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-12 House
Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-02-11 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study when medications may be given to adults in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study when medications can and should be given involuntarily to adults in custody. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to the administration of medications for adults in custody.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3524
Sponsored by Representative MANNIX
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 the DOC to study when medications may be given to adults in custody.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study when medications can and should be given
involuntarily to adults in custody. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim com-
mittees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the administration of medications for adults in custody.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Corrections shall study the conditions under which
medications can legally and should normatively be administered involuntarily to adults in
custody. 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.
LC 2207