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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2203
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Behavioral Health and Health Care for Representative Rob Nosse)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells OHA to study the safety of certain health care workers. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 69.9).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the safety of behavioral health workers. Directs
the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
health not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the safety of behavioral health workers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Oregon Health Authority shall study the safety of behavioral health
workers. The authority shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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