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SB11 • 2025

Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm.

Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm.

Crime Firearms
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Senator Thatcher,, Representative Diehl, Senator Weber,
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate 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.

Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm.

Digest: The Act makes police ask if a person is a citizen if the person has a gun and is being arrested for a crime.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act makes police ask if a person is a citizen if the person has a gun and is being arrested for a crime.
  • The Act also makes police notify ICE if the person is not a citizen.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
  • Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm.

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 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Judiciary.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act makes police ask if a person is a citizen if the person has a gun and is being arrested for a crime. The Act also makes police notify ICE if the person is not a citizen. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a crime and the person is in possession of a firearm. Directs the arresting officer to notify federal immigration authorities if the person is not a citizen.
Relating to: Relating to the possession of firearms by noncitizens.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 11
Sponsored by Senator THATCHER, Representative DIEHL; Senator WEBER (Presession filed.)
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 makes police ask if a person is a citizen if the person has a gun and is being
arrested for a crime. The Act also makes police notify ICE if the person is not a citizen. (Flesch
Readability Score: 71.7).
Directs an arresting officer to inquire about citizenship when the officer arrests a person for a
crime and the person is in possession of a firearm. Directs the arresting officer to notify federal
immigration authorities if the person is not a citizen.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the possession of firearms by noncitizens.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Notwithstanding ORS 181A.820 and 181A.822 to 181A.829:
(a) When a person is arrested for a crime and is found to be in possession of a firearm
at the time of arrest, the arresting officer shall inquire whether the person is a citizen.
(b) If the arresting officer learns, after conducting the inquiry under paragraph (a) of
this subsection, that the arrested person is not a citizen, the arresting officer shall:
(A) Immediately notify federal immigration authorities and provide the person’s name,
crime of arrest and any other requested information.
(B) Cooperate, to the extent practicable, with any investigation resulting from the no-
tification.
(2) As used in this section, “federal immigration authorities” means agents of the United
States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or a successor agency, who receive reports
of and investigate violations of immigration law.
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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