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OR SB734

Bill

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sara Gelser Blouin

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Origin

Senate

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Prohibits specific mechanical restraints on youth, adjudicated youth, and young persons in Oregon detention facilities and youth correction facilities

  • Banned restraints include straitjackets, devices attaching individuals to fixed objects (chairs, beds, wall/floor bolts), and body-wrapping devices like blanket wraps

  • Prohibits combination restraints (locking shoulder harness with leg restraint and ankle strap) and devices that impair sight, hearing, or speech

  • Bans devices causing pain compliance positions, limb/joint hyperextension, breathing interference, or those affixing to the neck or throat

  • Declares an emergency, making the act effective immediately upon passage

Legislative Description

Relating to the use of mechanical restraints on certain young people; declaring an emergency.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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