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Subcommittee advances $17.9 million budget for parole board, approves package to clear offender-notification backlog
Summary
The Public Safety Subcommittee on May 20, 2025 advanced House Bill 5,027, recommending $17,898,813 in general fund, other funds, and 38 positions for the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision and approving resources to address a backlog in the offender-notification leveling system.
The Public Safety Subcommittee on May 20, 2025 advanced House Bill 5,027, the appropriation bill for the Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision, recommending a 2025-27 budget that the Legislative Fiscal Office (LFO) summarized as $17,898,813 in general fund, $13,229 in other funds, and 38 positions (36.29 FTE).
The LFO told the committee the recommended increase (a 27.6% rise over the 2023-25 legislatively approved budget) reflects statewide personal-services growth and inflation, the phase-out of one-time costs tied to electronic records conversion and additional release-hearing positions from the 2023-25 biennium, and two LFO packages included in the dash-1 amendment.
The first LFO package includes $100,000 one-time general fund to update the Parole Board management information…
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