All Roll Calls
Yes: 129 • No: 55
OregonHB 30692025 Regular SessionHouse
Relating to public safety; and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored By: Jason Kropf (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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12 provisions identified: 9 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
More people in custody qualify for treatment
Oregon corrections must provide appropriate substance use treatment to people in state custody with moderate to severe treatment needs. A high or medium risk of reoffending is no longer required. Eligibility uses an actuarial risk assessment tool. The treatment requirement does not create an enforceable right to treatment or civil liability.
Counties earn grants for safety results
The commission must award supplemental grants to selected counties for programs that divert people from prison through shorter sentences. At least 15% of Justice Reinvestment grant funds supports performance-based local public safety grants. Counties qualify by following their plans and standards, meeting goals, and avoiding state public safety costs. Awards follow the statutory county formula; money left when fewer than 36 counties qualify goes to qualifying counties. The commission may retain up to 3% of funds distributed under the baseline formula to study public safety results.
Counties get coordinated public safety grants
Oregon creates a coordinated grant program for Justice Reinvestment, treatment courts, behavioral health deflection, and community treatment. County applications must come through local public safety councils with two-year plans and budgets; administrative costs can reach 10%. The commission must reserve funds before seeking applications for program areas open to noncounty applicants. A separate Public Safety Fund provides ongoing spending authority for Justice Reinvestment, adding performance-based supplemental grants beginning July 1, 2026. The law also repeals earlier grant provisions and transfers remaining money from the specified supplemental grant program on that date.
Crime victim services receive reserved funding
At least 10% of Justice Reinvestment grant funds must go to community nonprofits serving crime victims. Groups serving specific cultural communities and services responsive to cultural needs receive priority. This funds service organizations, not a guaranteed payment to each victim.
Deflection grants can cover restitution barriers
Deflection grants can pay crime-victim restitution when possible or unpaid restitution blocks someone from joining a program. Grants can also fund case workers, outreach staff, peer navigators, and mobile crisis and support workers. Referral technology can connect participants with local deflection and jail reentry services. Counties may request up to 10% for administration; tribes may request their federally negotiated indirect cost rate.
Shorter baseline sentences for some robberies
Third-degree robbery moves from a 24-month to an 18-month presumptive sentence for people meeting the law's listed prior-conviction criteria. This is a sentencing baseline, not a guaranteed release date. Other sentencing rules and statutory exceptions still apply.
Community treatment gains statewide support options
Up to 20% of the community treatment account can support statewide service design, training, technical help, and data systems. Technology funding is no longer limited to a one-time investment. State matching priorities may consider service results, county population, state hospital use, and supportive housing availability. The commission may boost regional projects, but matched local investments cannot replace existing funding.
Counties and tribes coordinate treatment alternatives
Counties, federally recognized tribes, and their groups can seek behavioral health deflection grants to connect people with treatment instead of prosecution. Counties must partner with prosecutors, law enforcement, community mental health programs, and Behavioral Health Resource Network providers. Tribes must partner with law enforcement and a behavioral health or community social service organization. Each county or tribe gets one application, describing coordination, participants, and outcomes; county plans must address language access and culturally responsive, trauma-informed, evidence-based services. Programs need a coordinator and mental health or tribal coordination; statewide standards are due February 1, 2027.
Tribes receive reserved community treatment grants
Oregon's community treatment grant program must reserve a share of funding for awards to at least one federally recognized tribe. The law leaves the percentage to the commission. Support letters are optional; tribal applicants must report county input, while counties must report local tribal input and its use when feasible. The commission must set rules for unused funds, evaluations, award changes, and partnerships.
Counties shift to replacement treatment grants
The law ends earlier corrections grants for county jails, community treatment, and intensive supervision, along with earlier drug court grants. Replacement Justice Reinvestment grants support county jail operations, treatment, and intensive supervision using research-based or applicable tribal practices. A new Treatment Court Grant Program supplements county funding through an account with ongoing spending authority. Treatment court grants must support state standards and can pay for treatment and incarceration after program violations. A related account-purpose change has a July 1, 2026 start date contingent on HB 2632 becoming law.
Reentry courts gain supervision sanction authority
Specified reentry court proceedings now follow Oregon Evidence Code rules that previously excluded them. For people sentenced under the specified 2013 law, corrections or local authorities must share release plans recommending reentry court participation. Reentry courts share authority to sanction post-prison supervision violations after a circuit court in a participating county admits the person.
County deflection grants face lower minimums
After setting a tribal share, the initial county allocation uses 25% historical shares from the biennium ending June 30, 2025. Another 70% follows projected eligible and enrolled participants; 3% supports evaluation and 2% technical help. Qualifying counties initially receive at least $300,000. Beginning July 1, 2027, 25% follows population projections, 70% becomes competitive, and the minimum award drops to $150,000. Competitive grants favor enrollment progress, fewer specified drug-possession misdemeanor cases, successful outcomes, direct-service jobs, rural partnerships, and state standards. Applicants must explain projections; the commission supplies historical data and sets rules for awards, unused funds, evaluations, grant changes, and partnerships.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Jason Kropf
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/26/2025
House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
Yes: 32 • No: 11
Senate vote • 6/24/2025
Third reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed.
Yes: 20 • No: 9
legislature vote • 6/18/2025
Ways and Means: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 13 • No: 7
House vote • 6/16/2025
Third reading. Carried by Kropf. Passed.
Yes: 36 • No: 18
legislature vote • 6/6/2025
Ways and Means: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 14 • No: 9
legislature vote • 5/21/2025
Addiction and Community Safety Response: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 6 • No: 1
House vote • 4/2/2025
Judiciary: Heard and Reported Out
Yes: 8 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 557, (2025 Laws): Effective date July 17, 2025.
8/7/2025HouseGovernor signed.
7/17/2025HousePresident signed.
6/30/2025SenateSpeaker signed.
6/30/2025HouseHouse concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
6/26/2025HouseThird reading. Carried by Broadman. Passed.
6/24/2025SenateSecond reading.
6/23/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng. bill, to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.)
6/20/2025SenateWork Session held.
6/18/2025SenateReferred to Ways and Means.
6/16/2025SenateFirst reading. Referred to President's desk.
6/16/2025SenateThird reading. Carried by Kropf. 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.
6/2/2025HouseWork Session held.
6/2/2025HouseAssigned to Subcommittee On Public Safety.
5/29/2025HouseReferred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker.
5/28/2025HouseRecommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means.
5/28/2025HouseWork Session held.
5/21/2025HousePublic Hearing held.
4/30/2025HouseReferred to Addiction and Community Safety Response by order of Speaker.
4/7/2025HouseWithout recommendation as to passage and be referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.
4/7/2025House
Bill Text
JWM Amendment -B8 (Adopted)
6/18/2025
JWM Amendment -A7 (Adopted)
6/6/2025
JWMPS Amendment -A7 (Proposed)
6/2/2025
JACSR Amendment -4 (Proposed)
5/21/2025
JACSR Amendment -5 (Proposed)
5/21/2025
JACSR Amendment -6 (Adopted)
5/21/2025
JACSR Amendment -1 (Proposed)
4/30/2025
JACSR Amendment -2 (Proposed)
4/30/2025
A-Engrossed
B-Engrossed
C-Engrossed
Enrolled
House Amendments to A-Engrossed
House Amendments to Introduced
Introduced
Senate Amendments to B-Engrossed
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