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SB763 • 2025

Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.

Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.

Crime
Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.

Digest: The Act creates a new crime if a health care provider makes an unlawful disclosure about certain crime victims.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act creates a new crime if a health care provider makes an unlawful disclosure about certain crime victims.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
  • Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.
  • Punishes the first offense by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.

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 creates a new crime if a health care provider makes an unlawful disclosure about certain crime victims. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking. Punishes the first offense by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Punishes the second or subsequent offense by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Relating to: Relating to the unlawful disclosure of information about crime victims.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 763
Sponsored by Senator NASH (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 creates a new crime if a health care provider makes an unlawful disclosure
about certain crime victims. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Creates the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex
trafficking. Punishes the first offense by a maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
Punishes the second or subsequent offense by a maximum of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine,
or both.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the unlawful disclosure of information about crime victims.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Health care provider” has the meaning given that term in ORS 192.556.
(b) “Sex trafficking” has the meaning given that term in ORS 137.221.
(c) “Sexual assault” has the meaning given that term in ORS 181A.323.
(2) A person commits the crime of unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of
sexual assault or sex trafficking if the person is a health care provider who:
(a) In the course of providing health care to a patient learns that the patient was a vic-
tim of sexual assault or sex trafficking; and
(b) Without the patient’s consent or authorization, knowingly discloses the information
regarding the sexual assault or sex trafficking to a third person in writing, in person or
electronically, including by posting the information to a website.
(3) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply to a health care provider disclosing pro-
tected health information as permitted by ORS 192.553 to 192.581 or the federal Health In-
surance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-191) and regulations adopted
under that law including 45 C.F.R. parts 160 and 164.
(4)(a) Unlawful disclosure of information about a victim of sexual assault or sex traf-
ficking is a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, unlawful disclosure of information
about a victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking is a Class C felony if the health care pro-
vider, at the time of committing the offense, has one or more prior convictions under this
section.
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 1219