Summary: Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President. (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary for Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) -- Relating to classification of crimes, Growing Marijuana as a Misdemeanor.   SB 327 would allow prosecutors to only charge growers of a small amount of marijuana with a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

The text on this Bill can be found in PDF format at: http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/sb0300.dir/sb0327.intro.pdf

Status: Hearing Scheduled with Judiciary Committee.

01/12 (S) Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
01/17 (S) Referred to Judiciary.
02/28 (S) Public Hearing held. [an error occurred while processing this directive]

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Details:   Allows district attorney to treat unlawful manufacture of marijuana as Class A misdemeanor if less than certain quantity of marijuana is involved.

A copy of the Bill may be found online at:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/SB0400.dir/SB0327.intro.pdf

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http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/sb0300.dir/sb0327.intro.html

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The audio file of the hearing is at this site:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/archive/archive.2007s/SBTW-200702071238.ram

SB 327 testimony takes up the first hour.

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