SALEM â Members of the House Judiciary Committee dusted off a seldom-used rule this week to force a hearing for Baileyâs Bill.
Officially named Senate Bill 649, Baileyâs Bill increases penalties for criminal sexual contact with an underage victim if the offender is the victimâs teacher. Currently, a coach convicted of sexual abuse in the third degree receives harsher penalties than a teacher who commits the exact same crime. The legislation is named for Weston-McEwen High School student Bailey Munck, who testified on March 25 to the Oregon Senateâs judiciary committee, telling of sexual abuse in 2019 during a volleyball road trip by Andrew DeYoe, an English teacher and scorekeeper for the volleyball team.
Lawmakers use rarely-invoked rule to dislodge sex abuse bill that was about to die
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Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Happy Valley, held up a sexual abuse bill over frustrations about the lack of movement for other criminal sentencing legislation.The Oregonian
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Nine members of the Oregon House Judiciary Committee have invoked a rarely-used House rule to force a hearing on a bill that would strengthen criminal penalties for teachers convicted of sexual abuse.
The lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, wrote a letter Wednesday to committee chair Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Happy Valley, asking that she schedule a vote on Senate Bill 649. Bynum was the lone member of the committee who didn’t sign it.