Proposed Oregon Firearm Legislation SB789
Legislation Overview
Title: Relating to crime.
Description: Increases penalty for crime of strangulation. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, or, in certain circumstances, by 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Removes exception for religious practices. Increases penalty for crime of menacing in certain circumstances. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Requires law enforcement officer to perform lethality assessment after making mandatory arrest for domestic assault. Requires court to consider completion of batterers' intervention program as mitigation when imposing sentence for domestic violence crime. Authorizes person to consider past use of force by other person when using physical force against other person in self-defense or in defense of third person.
Session: 2015 Legislative Measures
Last Action: In committee upon adjournment.
Last Action Date: July 6, 2015
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Bill Hansell;
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 30)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Jul 6, 2015 | In committee upon adjournment. |
| Senate | Jul 1, 2015 | Motion to withdraw from committee on Judiciary failed.Ayes, 11; nays, 18--Bates, Beyer, Burdick, Dembrow, Devlin, Edwards, Gelser, Hass, Johnson, Monnes Anderson, Monroe, Prozanski, Riley, Roblan, Rosenbaum, Shields, Steiner Hayward, President Courtney; excused, 1--Olsen. |
| Senate | Mar 3, 2015 | Referred to Judiciary. |
| Senate | Feb 26, 2015 | Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
