republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2024r1/sb-1553.md

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Bill	Relating to the addiction crisis in this state.	Digest: The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5).	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2024R1	SB 1553	Oregon SB 1553 (2024R1)	bill		enacted	Chris Gorsek David Brock Smith Dennis Linthicum James Manning Jr. Kate Lieber Kim Thatcher Susan McLain Tim Knopp	8	27	6	2024-02-05T15:05:18+00:00	2024-03-28T19:49:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8571044a-f9fa-465c-9eab-e556f991ee0b	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1553	e8ab571d29f6e79ecb2dceff46f8b53f31bfcadb084459976805b5dc6a175349	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 1553 (2024R1) — Relating to the addiction crisis in this state.

Digest: The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5).

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. HRULES Amendment -A2 (committee substitute) — source
6. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SJUD Amendment -1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill. — 23–6 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Lieber, Prozanski. Passed. — 27–3 (pass) · upper
• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by McLain. Passed. — 51–5 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chris Gorsek — primary (person)
• David Brock Smith — primary (person)
• Dennis Linthicum — primary (person)
• James Manning Jr. — primary (person)
• Kate Lieber — primary (person)
• Kim Thatcher — primary (person)
• Susan McLain — primary (person)
• Tim Knopp — primary (person)
• Ben Bowman — cosponsor (person)
• Bill Hansell — cosponsor (person)
• Boomer Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Cedric Hayden — cosponsor (person)
• Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Bonham — cosponsor (person)
• Deb Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Dick Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Emerson Levy — cosponsor (person)
• Hai Pham — cosponsor (person)
• James Hieb — cosponsor (person)
• Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
• John Lively — cosponsor (person)
• Lynn Findley — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Meek — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Holvey — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
• Suzanne Weber — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Nelson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-02-05T15:05:18+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-05T17:31:30+00:00 Referred to Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-02-12T21:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2024-02-14T21:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-02-16T17:26:23+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-19T19:11:02+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-20T20:47:17+00:00 Carried over to 02-21 by unanimous consent.
• 2024-02-21T19:28:14+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Lieber, Prozanski. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-21T19:36:50+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-21T22:31:37+00:00 Referred to Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2024-02-21T19:29:14+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Boquist, Robinson.
• 2024-02-27T16:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2024-02-29T16:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-03-01T23:23:49+00:00 Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Rules.
• 2024-03-01T23:23:50+00:00 Referred to Rules by order of Speaker. referral-committee
• 2024-03-04T16:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-03-04T23:38:02+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05T18:26:01+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-03-06T00:09:09+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by McLain. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-06T00:10:09+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Chaichi, Hartman.
• 2024-03-06T21:47:41+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill.
• 2024-03-06T21:48:41+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Robinson.
• 2024-03-07T19:30:22+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2024-03-07T21:16:50+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-27T19:48:17+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-03-28T19:46:49+00:00 Chapter 58, 2024 Laws.
• 2024-03-28T19:49:35+00:00 Effective date, January 1, 2025.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8571044a-f9fa-465c-9eab-e556f991ee0b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).