Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB2677: Relating to juvenile records; and prescribing an effective date.
Status: Chaptered, August 7, 2025
Digest: The Act makes changes to laws about when juvenile court records may be expunged. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Modifies the procedure for the expunction of certain juvenile records. Directs the juvenile department to initiate the statutory expunction process for juvenile records relating to acts that if committed by adults would constitute misdemeanors involving violence. Creates exceptions. Modifies venue for juvenile court expunction proceedings. Expands expunction eligibility for records relating to felonies. Modifies requirement for notifying victim in juvenile proceedings of expunction process. Increases the appropriation from the General Fund to the Oregon Youth Authority to support expunction processing. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
What the bill says
An act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a felony unless, if the felony is not an offense listed in ORS 419A.260 (1)(e)(J), the court modified the order of jurisdiction under ORS 419C.610 to reflect that the act, if committed by an adult, would constitute a misdemeanor; [(C)] (E) There is no petition pending alleging that the subject person is subject to the juvenile court's jurisdiction under ORS 419C.005; [(D)] (F) The subject person does not owe restitution; [(E)] (G) The subject person has not had contact with the juvenile department resulting in a conviction under ORS 137.7.
From the enrolled text, June 20, 2025:
an act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a felony unless, if the felony is not an offense listed in ORS 419A.260 (1)(e)(J), the court modified the order of jurisdiction under ORS 419C.610 to reflect that the act, if committed by an adult, would constitute a misdemeanor; [(C)] (E) There is no petition pending alleging that the subject person is subject to the juvenile court's jurisdiction under ORS 419C.005; [(D)] (F) The subject person does not owe restitution; [(E)] (G) The subject person has not had contact with the juvenile department resulting in a conviction under ORS 137.707 unless the conviction has been set aside; and [(F)] (H) The subject person has not been waived to criminal court pursuant to a hearing under ORS 419C.349 or 419C.352 unless the waiver did not result in a conviction or resulted in a conviction that has been set aside. (4)(a) A juvenile department shall file with the juvenile court an application for expunction of the records of a person the juvenile department determines meets the criteria under paragraph (d) of this subsection within 90 days following the later (B) The date the person attains 18 years of age; or (C) If the subject person was 18 years of age or older on January 1, 2026, the date the juvenile department receives …