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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2505
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Joint Interim Committee
on Addiction and Community Safety Response 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 directs the CJC to study the OBHDP. The Act directs the CJC to provide the
results of the study to the legislature by May 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7).
Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the Oregon Behavioral Health De-
flection Program. Requires the commission to provide the results of the study to the appropriate
interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than May 1, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to deflection programs.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall study the operation of the
Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection Program.
(2) The commission shall provide the results of the study, including any recommended
legislative changes, in a report to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly in the manner provided under ORS 192.245 no later than May 1, 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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.
LC 3385