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HB3726 • 2025

Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific conditions.

Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific conditions.

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.

Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific conditions.

Digest: The Act would allow the DOC to hire some retired staff under specific conditions.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act would allow the DOC to hire some retired staff under specific conditions.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
  • Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific conditions.
  • Sunsets on January 1, 2032.

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. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to Judiciary.

  3. 2025-02-25 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would allow the DOC to hire some retired staff under specific conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific conditions.
Sunsets on January 1, 2032.
Relating to: Relating to hiring retired corrections officers.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3726
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 would allow the DOC to hire some retired staff under specific conditions.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Authorizes the Department of Corrections to hire retired corrections officers subject to specific
conditions.
Sunsets on January 1, 2032.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to hiring retired corrections officers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Department of
Corrections may employ on a part-time or full-time basis an individual who retired from
service as a corrections officer, as defined in ORS 181A.355, as follows:
(1) The department may negotiate independently the terms and conditions of employment
for each individual.
(2) An individual employed under this section may not receive pay in excess of the pay
received at the time the individual retired from the department.
(3) The employment may not affect the existing eligibility, pay or benefits of an individual
pursuant to the Public Employees Retirement System under ORS chapter 238.
(4)(a) The employment, pay and benefits may not be subject to the Public Employees
Retirement System under ORS chapter 238.
(b) Except as provided in section 3 of this 2025 Act, the employment, pay and benefits
may not be subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 1, 2032.
SECTION 3. (1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act applies to employment contracts entered into
by the Department of Corrections and an individual on or after the effective date of this 2025
Act.
(2)(a) If application of section 1 of this 2025 Act conflicts with the provision of an existing
collective bargaining agreement, the existing collective bargaining agreement shall preempt
section 1 of this 2025 Act.
(b) If application of section 1 of this 2025 Act conflicts with the provision of a collective
bargaining agreement entered into, modified or renewed on or after the effective date of this
2025 Act, section 1 of this 2025 Act preempts the collective bargaining agreement.
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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