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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2954
Sponsored by Representative TRAN (Presession filed.)
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 would give money to the OHA to give to local health entities and tribes to
prevent addiction in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to
local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction pre-
vention services.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to substance abuse prevention; and declaring an emergency.
Whereas addiction is a chronic disease that kills more than 12,000 Oregonians each year; and
Whereas addiction takes an emotional toll on people who use drugs or gamble, their families and
their loves ones; and
Whereas the substance use crisis takes a financial toll on all of us, with an estimated societal
and economic cost of $6 billion per year in Oregon, which is more than 13 times the revenue gen-
erated from taxes and markups on alcohol sales in Oregon in the 2022-2023 fiscal year; now, there-
fore,
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $____, to distribute to local health departments, as defined in
ORS 431.003, and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon for the purpose of establishing
or expanding primary prevention programs for addiction in accordance with ORS 431.144 or
traditional tribal knowledge.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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 3684