l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3718

Prohibits a police officer involved in a use of deadly physical force incident from reviewing body camera recordings before participating in an interview about the incident.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act changes some laws about police body camera footage. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits a police officer involved in a use of deadly physical force incident from reviewing body camera recordings before participating in an interview about the incident. Creates an alternative court process for a person denied access to a public record consisting of a body camera recording of a law enforcement use of deadly physical force incident. Directs the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to create technical standards for the maintenance and secure storage of body camera recordings.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

In the Senate

Its course

February 25 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action3 actions on 3 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 25 to Jun 27 · stopped122 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 25 to Feb 272 days

JudiciaryFeb 27 to Jun 27 · stopped120 days

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

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

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 25 – Jun 27

  1. Feb 25Introduced
  2. Feb 27Sent to Judiciary
  3. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
  1. Feb 25First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Feb 27Referred to Judiciary.House of Representatives
  3. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives