House Bill 2355

Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to develop method for recording data concerning officer-initiated pedestrian and traffic stops. Directs Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to develop training and procedures for recording data. Requires law enforcement agencies to begin recording required officer-involved pedestrian and traffic stop data beginning on date based on size of agency. Requires agencies to provide recorded data to commission beginning on date based on size of agency. Requires that data not individually identify law enforcement officers or persons who were subject of traffic stops. Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to review, using statistical analysis, officer-initiated pedestrian and traffic stop data received from law enforcement agencies, and report no later than December 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, to Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary. Directs department to review report received from commission. Authorizes department to provide advice and technical assistance to law enforcement agency named in report. Directs department to report assistance to local public safety coordinating council in public meeting. Directs Department of State Police to develop standardized profiling complaint report form. Specifies contents of form and manner in which law enforcement agency submits form to Law Enforcement Contacts Policy and Data Review Committee. Reduces crime classification of unlawful possession of controlled substance in Schedule I. Punishes by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, except in specified circumstances. Retains current crime classification if possession is of usable quantity and is commercial drug offense, if person has prior felony conviction or two or more prior unlawful possession of controlled substance convictions, or if person possesses certain quantity of controlled substance. Reduces crime classification of unlawful possession of controlled substance in Schedule II. Punishes by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, except in specified circumstances. Retains current crime classification if possession is of usable quantity and is commercial drug offense, if person has prior felony conviction or two or more prior unlawful possession of controlled substance convictions, or if person possesses certain quantity of controlled substance. Requires county to supervise offenders convicted of certain drug-related misdemeanors. Provides that person convicted of certain drug-related misdemeanors qualifies for earned reduction in term of probation. Provides that justice courts and municipal courts do not have jurisdiction over certain drug-related misdemeanors. Reduces maximum term of imprisonment for Class A misdemeanor crime from one year to 364 days. Reduces maximum period of institutionalization or commitment, from one year to 364 days, for youth offender found to have committed act that, if committed by adult, would constitute Class A misdemeanor. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study impact of possession of controlled substance crime classification reduction and report on results of study to committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary no later than September 15, 2018. <b>Increases General Fund appropriations to commission and to Department of State Police for purposes of implementing Act. Increases expenditure limitations for Department of State Police and for Department of Public Safety Standards and Training for purposes of implementing Act.</b> Declares emergency, effective on passage.

• House of Representatives, third reading36–23

  Passed · Jul 5 · 1 present

• Senate, third reading20–9

  Passed · Jul 6 · 1 present

• House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Apr 5

• House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jul 4

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

In the House of Representatives Jan 9 – Jul 5

1. Jan 9Introduced
2. Jan 17Sent to Judiciary
3. Mar 6Heard in Judiciary
4. Mar 30Heard in Judiciary
5. Apr 5Judiciary recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
6. Sent to Ways and Means
7. Jun 9Sent to Public Safety Subcommittee
8. Jun 14Heard in Public Safety Subcommittee
9. Jun 29Heard in Public Safety Subcommittee
10. Returned to Ways and Means
11. Jul 1Heard in Ways and Means
12. Jul 4Ways and Means recommended it as amended
13. Jul 5Read a second time
14. Passed the House of Representatives, 36 to 23

In the Senate Jul 6

1. Jul 6Arrived in the Senate
2. Sent to Ways and Means
3. Ways and Means recommended it
4. Read a second time
5. Passed the Senate, 20 to 9

To the Governor Jul 10 – Aug 18

1. Jul 10Signed in the House of Representatives
2. Jul 18Signed in the Senate
3. Aug 15Signed by the Governor
4. Aug 18Became chapter 706 of Oregon Laws 2017, in force from August 15, 2017