Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3582: Relating to statutes of limitation; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, July 25, 2025
Digest: The Act changes the law about the time limit for some claims based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault. The Act gets rid of the time limit for claims based on child sexual abuse or sexual assault. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). [ Digest: The Act gets rid of the time limit for filing claims based on sexual assault or child sexual abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2). ] Modifies the qualifications for certain statutes of limitations for civil actions based on allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse and sexual assault. Prospectively eliminates the statute of limitations for civil actions based on sexual assault or child sexual abuse. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 18, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session House Bill 3582 Sponsored by Representative HARTMAN, Senators TAYLOR, MEEK, Representatives BOWMAN, NGUYEN H, OWENS, Senators MANNING JR, NERON; Representatives ANDERSEN, CHAICHI, CHOTZEN, DOBSON, DRAZAN, EDWARDS, EVANS, FRAGALA, GAMBA, GOMBERG, GRAYBER, HELM, HUDSON, ISADORE, JAVADI, LEVY B, LEVY E, LEWIS, LIVELY, MCDONALD, MCLAIN, MUNOZ, NATHANSON, NELSON, PHAM H, RUIZ, SCHARF, TRAN, WALTERS, WATANABE, Senators ANDERSON, CAMPOS, GELSER BLOUIN, HAYDEN, PATTERSON, SMITH DB, SOLLMAN, THATCHER CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to statutes of limitation; creating new provisions; amending ORS 12.117 and 12.118; and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. ORS 12.117 is amended to read: 12.117. (1) Notwithstanding ORS 12.110, 12.115 or 12.160[,]: (a) An action based on conduct that constitutes child abuse or conduct [knowingly] allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse that occurs while the person is under 18 years of age must be commenced before the person attains 40 years of age, or if the person has not discovered the causal connection between the injury and the child abuse, nor in the exercise of reasonable care should have discovered the causal connection between the injury and the child abuse, not more than five years from the date the person discovers or in the exercise of reasonable care should have discovered the causal connection between the child abuse and the injury, whichever period is longer. (b) An …