l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 954

Increases the penalties for unlawfully causing fires.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate'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 increases the penalties for causing fires. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Increases the penalties for unlawfully causing fires. Punishes a first violation by a maximum of 30 days' imprisonment, a $1,250 fine, or both. Punishes a second violation by a maximum of six months' imprisonment, a $2,500 fine, or both. Punishes a third violation, or a first violation that proximately causes human injury, loss of human life or property damage of $10,000 or more, by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

Its course

January 28 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 2 days

In the SenateJan 28 to Jun 27 · stopped150 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 28 to Jan 280 days

JudiciaryJan 28 to Jun 27 · stopped150 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 Senate Jan 28 – Jun 27

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Judiciary
  3. Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published