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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3146
Sponsored by Representative MARSH, Senator REYNOLDS (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 creates a pilot program to house people who are on a wait list for residential
SUD services. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a pilot program to provide low-barrier
emergency housing for houseless or unsafely housed individuals on waiting lists for residential sub-
stance use disorder treatment or withdrawal management programs. Requires the authority to report
the outcomes of the pilot program to the Legislative Assembly beginning September 15, 2026, and
every two years thereafter.
Sunsets the pilot program on January 2, 2033.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to emergency housing for individuals awaiting residential substance use disorder services;
and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall administer a pilot program to provide
low-barrier emergency housing for houseless or unsafely housed individuals on waiting lists
for residential substance use disorder treatment or withdrawal management programs. In
implementing the pilot program, the authority shall award grants to fund no fewer than four
and no more than eight emergency housing programs statewide.
(2) The authority may award grants under this section to:
(a) Behavioral health organizations with substance use disorder experience; or
(b) Residential substance use disorder treatment providers.
(3) To qualify for a grant under this section, an applicant must:
(a) Demonstrate that proposed emergency housing units are in an approved zoning dis-
trict;
(b) Provide a plan for ensuring that participants have daily case management or peer
supportservices;
(c) Provide an operational plan that addresses security and oversight;
(d) Demonstrate that services will be provided with a trauma-informed lens; and
(e) Provide relevant financial and organizational information.
(4) To participate in the program, an individual must:
(a) Want treatment for problematic substance use;
(b) Be houseless or unsafely housed;
(c) Be assessed as needing residential substance use disorder treatment or withdrawal
management;
(d) Be entered on a waiting list for a residential substance use disorder treatment or
withdrawal management program;
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 1104 HB3146
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(e) Be able to safely reside in a single occupancy unit without 24-hour supervision, sup-
port or monitoring;
(f) Be determined to not be at high risk of violence to self or others; and
(g) Agree to, when a bed becomes available at a residential substance use disorder
treatment or withdrawal management program:
(A) Attend the program; or
(B) Leave emergency housing.
(5) The authority shall adopt rules to design and implement the pilot program under this
section, including requirements that emergency housing programs funded by grants under
thissection:
(a) Not require participants to remain abstinent from substances; and
(b) When possible, give priority for emergency housing to pregnant women.
(6) No later than September 15, 2026, and every two years thereafter, the authority shall
submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health, in
the manner provided in ORS 192.245, on the outcomes of the pilot program, including:
(a) The number of emergency housing beds made available and the percentage of beds
filled;
(b) The length of participants’ stays; and
(c) Transition outcomes for participants leaving emergency housing.
SECTION 2. 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 $10,000,000, which may be expended to carry out the pilot pro-
gram described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2033.
SECTION 4.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
on its passage.
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