All Roll Calls
Yes: 75 • No: 40
OregonHB 26772025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Relating to juvenile records; and prescribing an effective date.
Sponsored By: Floyd Prozanski (Democratic), Tom Andersen (Democratic), Willy Chotzen (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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7 provisions identified: 7 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Appointed lawyers for juvenile record clearing
Oregon juvenile courts must appoint a lawyer when the person whose record is involved requests one for covered expunction proceedings. The lawyer helps complete the application and represents the person at hearings. Appointment is not limited by the person's ability to pay.
Clearing juvenile records without court findings
Adults with juvenile-department contact but no juvenile-court jurisdiction finding qualify for expunction, meaning clearing or sealing records. No juvenile petition or informal referral can remain open, and covered criminal-court convictions must be set aside. The department must apply within 90 days after the person turns 18. For people already 18 on January 2, 2022, the deadline is 90 days after their request. Separately, covered department- or court-initiated expunctions no longer require the person's actual notice, including under age 21; other notice rules remain.
Clearing nonviolent juvenile records at 18
Adults can clear qualifying juvenile records for violations and misdemeanors that did not involve violence. Felonies qualify only when the court changes the finding to a misdemeanor and the offense is not excluded. Applicants must be at least 18, outside juvenile-court jurisdiction, have no pending juvenile petition, and owe no restitution. Covered felony or Class A misdemeanor convictions no longer block expunction once set aside. For the age-18 route, criminal-court transfers do not block access without a conviction, or after the conviction is set aside; covered direct criminal-court convictions must also be set aside.
Record clearing after serious juvenile cases
Qualifying violent-misdemeanor and felony juvenile records can be cleared at age 18 or older, four years after juvenile-court contact last ended. Since then, any felony or Class A misdemeanor conviction must have been set aside. No criminal or juvenile adjudication case, covered juvenile-court jurisdiction, or investigation known to the juvenile department can remain open. Applicants must owe no restitution, and covered criminal-court convictions must have been set aside. Departments cannot initiate age- or termination-based applications for specified serious offenses. These include first-degree arson, first- or second-degree robbery, second-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, and using a child in sexually explicit displays.
Departments can destroy some juvenile records
Juvenile departments no longer have to keep certain motor vehicle, boating, or game-violation records transferred to criminal or municipal court. They can destroy those records. This destruction is not expunction and does not clear records held elsewhere.
More funding for juvenile record clearing
For the two-year budget period beginning July 1, 2025, the Oregon Youth Authority gets $194,019 more in state General Fund support. Its federal-fund spending limit also increases by $5,960 for that period. Both changes support expunction processing, not direct payments to households.
Victims get juvenile record-clearing notice
District attorneys or juvenile departments must tell victims about the expunction process at or before the juvenile court decides the case. This applies when the petition alleges conduct that counts as a violation, misdemeanor, or felony for an adult. The notice does not decide whether records are cleared.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Floyd Prozanski
Democratic • Senate
Tom Andersen
Democratic • House
Willy Chotzen
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Janeen Sollman
Democratic • Senate
Kate Lieber
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/19/2025
Third reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed.
Yes: 17 • No: 12
House vote • 6/16/2025
Third reading. Carried by Chotzen. Passed.
Yes: 37 • No: 18
legislature vote • 6/6/2025
Ways and Means: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 15 • No: 8
House vote • 4/8/2025
Judiciary: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 6 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Chapter 487, (2025 Laws): Effective date September 26, 2025.
8/7/2025HouseGovernor signed.
7/17/2025HousePresident signed.
6/24/2025SenateSpeaker signed.
6/23/2025HouseThird reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed.
6/19/2025SenateSecond reading.
6/18/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill.
6/18/2025SenateReferred to Ways and Means.
6/16/2025SenateFirst reading. Referred to President's desk.
6/16/2025SenateThird reading. Carried by Chotzen. Passed.
6/16/2025HouseRules suspended. Carried over to June 16, 2025 Calendar.
6/13/2025HouseSecond reading.
6/12/2025HouseRecommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed.
6/11/2025HouseWork Session held.
6/6/2025HouseReturned to Full Committee.
6/4/2025HouseWork Session held.
6/4/2025HouseAssigned to Subcommittee On Public Safety.
5/29/2025HouseReferred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
4/15/2025HouseRecommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
4/15/2025HouseWork Session held.
4/8/2025HousePublic Hearing held.
3/11/2025HouseReferred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
1/17/2025HouseFirst reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
1/13/2025House
Bill Text
JWM Amendment -A8 (Adopted)
6/6/2025
JWMPS Amendment -A8 (Proposed)
6/4/2025
HJUD Amendment -7 (Adopted)
4/8/2025
HJUD Amendment -4 (Proposed)
4/1/2025
A-Engrossed
B-Engrossed
Enrolled
House Amendments to A-Engrossed
House Amendments to Introduced
Introduced
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