71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
Enrolled
Senate Bill 75
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
of the President (at the request of Joint Interim Judiciary
Committee for Judicial Department)
CHAPTER ................
AN ACT
Relating to local citizen review boards; amending ORS 419A.092
and section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999; repealing section
2, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 419A.092 is amended to read:
419A.092. (1) Each local citizen review board shall be composed
of at least three and not more than seven members appointed by
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon. If
more than five members are appointed to a local citizen review
board, the additional members serve as alternate members. Each
member appointed shall be sworn in by a judge of the court to
which the member is to be appointed to serve. The Chief Justice
shall appoint local citizen review boards according to the
following guidelines:
(a) Members of each local citizen review board shall be
recruited from groups with special knowledge or interest in
foster care { + , + } { - and - } child welfare { + and
juvenile corrections, + } which may include but { - shall - }
{ + are + } not { - be - } limited to adoptive parents and
members of the professions of law, medicine, psychology, social
work { + , law enforcement, corrections + } and education;
(b) As far as practicable, members of each local citizen review
board shall represent the various socioeconomic and ethnic groups
of the area served;
(c) { - No - } { + A + } person employed by the State
Office for Services to Children and Families, by any private
agency regulated, certified, directed or licensed by or
contracting with the office or by any juvenile court
{ - shall - } { + may not + } serve on any local citizen
review board { + reviewing cases under ORS 419A.106 + };
{ + (d) A person employed by the Oregon Youth Authority, by
any private agency regulated, certified, directed or licensed by
or contracting with the Oregon Youth Authority or by any juvenile
court may not serve on any local citizen review board reviewing
cases under section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999; + }
{ - (d) - } { + (e) + } The appointment of any individual
member of a local citizen review board { - shall - }
{ + may + } be made only from a list approved by the presiding
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judge of the court to which the individual member is to be
appointed to serve; and
{ - (e) - } { + (f) + } Members of local citizen review
boards must be domiciled { + or employed + } within the counties
of the court that they are appointed to serve.
(2) Prior to reviewing cases, all persons appointed to serve as
local citizen review board members { - shall - } { + must + }
participate in a 16-hour orientation training program established
and approved by the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon. In
addition, each local citizen review board member must receive
eight hours of training annually.
SECTION 2. Section 1, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999, is amended
to read:
{ + Sec. 1. + } (1) Subject to the availability of funds, a
local citizen review board shall review cases of youth offenders
in the custody of the Oregon Youth Authority and placed in
substitute care. The local citizen review board shall focus on
public safety, youth offender accountability and reformation in
conducting the reviews.
(2) { - No later than July 1, 1999, - } The Judicial
Department and the Oregon Youth Authority shall enter into an
intergovernmental agreement regarding the reviews conducted under
subsection (1) of this section. The intergovernmental agreement
must outline the:
(a) Timing of the reviews;
(b) Participants to be invited to the reviews; and
(c) Process to be followed in conducting the reviews.
{ - (3) The agreement must specify that the reviews be
conducted, at a minimum, at key transition points in a case. Key
transition points include, but are not limited to, the initial
placement of the youth offender and the point at which the youth
offender is preparing to leave substitute care. - }
{ - (4) - } { + (3) + } The local citizen review board
shall forward findings and recommendations generated at a review
under subsection (1) of this section to the court and any other
parties designated in the agreement under subsection (2) of this
section. The court shall cause the findings and recommendations
to become part of the juvenile court file for consideration by
the juvenile court judge.
SECTION 3. { + Section 2, chapter 187, Oregon Laws 1999, is
repealed. + }
SECTION 4. { + This 2001 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2001 Act takes effect July 1,
2001. + }
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Passed by Senate March 1, 2001
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Secretary of Senate
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President of Senate
Passed by House May 11, 2001
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Speaker of House
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Received by Governor:
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Approved:
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Governor
Filed in Office of Secretary of State:
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Secretary of State
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