SB197 • 2025

Requires the Department of Corrections to study correctional facilities.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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.

Requires the Department of Corrections to study correctional facilities.

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study the facilities where people who commit crimes are kept in Oregon.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study the facilities where people who commit crimes are kept in Oregon.
(Flesch Readability Score: 66.3).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study correctional facilities.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the DOC to study the facilities where people who commit crimes are kept in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study correctional facilities. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to correctional facilities.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 197
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary)
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 the facilities where people who commit crimes are kept
in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3).
Requires the Department of Corrections to study correctional facilities. Directs the department
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no
later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to correctional facilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Corrections shall study correctional facilities. The de-
partment 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 re-
lated 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 3047