Bill > HB3078

This bill makes several changes to public safety and sentencing laws in Oregon: - It modifies the eligibility criteria for the Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program, allowing the court to consider program eligibility as a mitigating factor when sentencing defendants to probation. It also increases the maximum period of short-term transitional leave for certain Department of Corrections inmates. - For theft in the first degree and identity theft crimes, it reduces presumptive sentences and eliminates mandatory sentences when the defendant has prior property crime convictions. It also increases the number of prior property crime convictions required for the presumptive sentences to apply. - It authorizes supervisory authorities to require high-level supervision for people convicted of certain property crimes and sentenced to probation. - It appropriates $7 million from the General Fund to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish a program awarding supplemental grant funds to counties for downward departure prison diversion programs. It also appropriates $1 million to the Department of Justice for services for victims of domestic and sexual violence. - The bill directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to monitor the downward departure programs and study the impact of the act on prison population, recidivism, and public safety. The bill declares an emergency and takes effect immediately upon passage.