HB2353 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Evans
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health services for certain people.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health services for certain people.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health services for certain people. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to behavioral health.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2353
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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 services for certain people. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 67.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older
adults and individuals with disabilities. Directs the authority to submit 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 services and
supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities. The authority 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 health no later than Sep-
tember 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 973