SB721 • 2025

Repeals the provision prohibiting a court, except in specified circumstances, from excluding admissible evidence on grounds that the evidence was obtained in violation of a statute.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Gorsek
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Repeals the provision prohibiting a court, except in specified circumstances, from excluding admissible evidence on grounds that the evidence was obtained in violation of a statute.

Digest: The Act gets rid of the law limiting a court's ability to exclude some evidence.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act gets rid of the law limiting a court's ability to exclude some evidence.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Repeals the provision prohibiting a court, except in specified circumstances, from excluding admissible evidence on grounds that the evidence was obtained in violation of a statute.
Relating to: Relating to the suppression of evidence.

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 gets rid of the law limiting a court's ability to exclude some evidence. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Repeals the provision prohibiting a court, except in specified circumstances, from excluding admissible evidence on grounds that the evidence was obtained in violation of a statute.
Relating to: Relating to the suppression of evidence.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 721
Sponsored by Senator GORSEK (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 gets rid of the law limiting a court’s ability to exclude some evidence. (Flesch
Readability Score: 61.8).
Repeals the provision prohibiting a court, except in specified circumstances, from excluding ad-
missible evidence on grounds that the evidence was obtained in violation of a statute.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the suppression of evidence; creating new provisions; amending ORS 419C.270; and re-
pealing ORS 136.432.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 136.432 is repealed.
SECTION 2. ORS 419C.270 is amended to read:
419C.270. In all proceedings brought under ORS 419C.005, the following rules of criminal pro-
cedure apply:
(1) ORS 133.402, 133.673, 133.693 and 133.703;
(2) ORS 135.455, 135.465 and 135.470;
(3) ORS 135.610, 135.630 (3) to (6), 135.640 and 135.670;
(4) ORS 135.711, 135.713, 135.715, 135.717, 135.720, 135.725, 135.727, 135.730, 135.733, 135.735,
135.737, 135.740 and 135.743;
(5) ORS 135.805 and 135.815 (1)(a) to (e) and (g) and (3); and
(6) ORS 135.825, 135.835, 135.845 and 135.855 to 135.873 .[; and ]
[(7) ORS 136.432. ]
SECTION 3.
The repeal of ORS 136.432 by section 1 of this 2025 Act and the amendments
to ORS 419C.270 by section 2 of this 2025 Act apply to criminal and juvenile proceedings ini-
tiated 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.
LC 1957