Bill Text: OR HB2482 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled

Oregon House Bill 2482 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the housing of inmates; and declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Unknown

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-02 - Chapter 654, (2011 Laws): Effective date August 2, 2011. [HB2482 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2482-Enrolled.html



     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                         House Bill 2482

Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession
  filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Consumer
  Protection and Government Accountability for Task Force on
  Effective and Cost-Efficient Service Provision)

                     CHAPTER ................

                             AN ACT

Relating to the housing of inmates; and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Task Force on the Shared Housing of
Special Populations in County Jails is established, consisting of
11 members appointed as follows:
  (a) The President of the Senate shall appoint three members
representing county sheriffs.
  (b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
three members representing county sheriffs.
  (c) The Governor shall appoint five representatives as follows:
  (A) One representative of the Department of Corrections.
  (B) One representative of the Oregon Youth Authority.
  (C) Three representatives of the Association of Oregon
Counties.
  (2) The task force shall explore the feasibility of dedicating
certain pods, cell blocks or other housing units within a local
correctional facility to specific categories of inmates that
require segregated housing and allocating the use of these units
on a regional basis.
  (3) The task force may receive testimony or reports from
persons or agencies as the task force determines is appropriate.
  (4) A majority of the voting members of the task force
constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
  (5) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the voting members of the task force.
  (6) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson.
  (7) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing
authority shall make an appointment to become immediately
effective.
  (8) The task force shall meet at times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the voting
members of the task force.
  (9) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operation
of the task force.
  (10) The task force shall submit a report, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to an interim committee of the
Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary no later than
October 1, 2012.

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  (11)(a) The Department of Corrections shall provide staff
support to the task force.
  (b) The task force shall accept supplemental staff support
offered by the Association of Oregon Counties.
  (12) Members of the task force are not entitled to
compensation, but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary
travel and other expenses incurred by them in the performance of
their official duties in the manner and amounts provided for in
ORS 292.495. Claims for expenses shall be paid out of funds
appropriated to the Department of Corrections for purposes of the
task force.
  (13) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS
174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performance
of its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to
confidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as the
members of the task force consider necessary to perform their
duties. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2011 Act is repealed on the
date of the convening of the 2013 regular legislative
session. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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Passed by House June 15, 2011

    .............................................................
                         Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk of House

    .............................................................
                                    Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

    .............................................................
                                   Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

Passed by Senate June 21, 2011

    .............................................................
                              Peter Courtney, President of Senate

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Received by Governor:

......M.,............., 2011

Approved:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                         John Kitzhaber, Governor

Filed in Office of Secretary of State:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                   Kate Brown, Secretary of State

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