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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 23
Sponsored by Senator PATTERSON (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 tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. Directs the authority to sub-
mit 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 behavioral health.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Oregon Health Authority shall study behavioral health. The authority
shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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.
LC 762