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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2476
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Judiciary for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 the OHA to do a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 94.3).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to fitness to proceed and to provide
the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later
than December 31, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fitness to proceed.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall study ways to reduce the number of
persons committed to the custody of a superintendent of a state mental hospital after being
determined to lack fitness to proceed.
(2) The authority shall provide the results of the authority’s study in a report to the
appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly in the manner provided under
ORS 192.245 no later than December 31, 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 Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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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