Repeals the prohibition on police officers initiating traffic stops based solely on specified traffic violations related to vehicle lighting requirements.

Plain English Breakdown

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

Repeals the prohibition on police officers initiating traffic stops based solely on specified traffic violations related to vehicle lighting requirements.

Digest: The Act says police officers may stop a driver for failing to use lights or not using the lights that the law requires.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act says police officers may stop a driver for failing to use lights or not using the lights that the law requires.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
• Repeals the prohibition on police officers initiating traffic stops based solely on specified traffic violations related to vehicle lighting requirements.
• Relating to: Relating to traffic offenses.

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 says police officers may stop a driver for failing to use lights or not using the lights that the law requires. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
Repeals the prohibition on police officers initiating traffic stops based solely on specified traffic violations related to vehicle lighting requirements.
Relating to: Relating to traffic offenses.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1042
Sponsored by Senator BONHAM
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 police officers may stop a driver for failing to use lights or not using the
lights that the law requires. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.7).
Repeals the prohibition on police officers initiating traffic stops based solely on specified traffic
violations related to vehicle lighting requirements.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to traffic offenses; creating new provisions; and repealing ORS 810.412.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 810.412 is repealed.
SECTION 2. The repeal of ORS 810.412 by section 1 of this 2025 Act applies to conduct
alleged to constitute an offense occurring on or after the effective date of this 2025 Act.
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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