Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3198: Relating to missing and murdered indigenous people.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: The Act tells OHA to have staff in the part that does tribal affairs look at missing and murdered indigenous people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). [ Digest: The Act tells DOJ to study missing and murdered indigenous people and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). ] [ Requires the Department of Justice to study missing and murdered indigenous people. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public safety not later than September 15, 2026. ] [ Sunsets on January 2, 2027. ] Directs the Oregon Health Authority to dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, February 13, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL 3198 By COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY February Delete lines 4 through 8 of the printed bill and insert: "SECTION 1. The Oregon Health Authority shall dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people. The dedicated staff shall: "(1) Provide victim services, outreach, education and prevention services related to missing and murdered indigenous people. "(2) Collaborate with and support the development of interagency agreements with tribal governments, native-led organizations, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and community leaders providing services related to missing and murdered indigenous people. "(3) Collaborate with partners to develop and maintain data on missing and murdered indigenous people in this state to identify patterns and inform targeted health interventions and violence prevention programs. "(4) Collaborate with representatives of the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon, community-based organizations and urban-based American Indian and Alaska Native populations to implement community education programs and support youth engagement initiatives to reduce vulnerabilities that disproportionately impact indigenous people. "(5) Strengthen partnerships between law enforcement and tribal and urban American Indian and Alaska Native communities.". LC 3439/HB 3198-1