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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 421
Sponsored by Senator REYNOLDS, Representative SANCHEZ (at the request of The Ballmer Institute for Children’s
Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon) (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 the System of Care Advisory Council to look at the youth behavioral
health work force and report on it.(Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.
Directs the council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related
to behavioral health and health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the youth behavioral health workforce.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The System of Care Advisory Council shall study the youth behavioral health
workforce in this state. The council shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to behavioral health and health care 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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.
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