HB2488 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.

Digest: The Act directs OHA to study the standards that must be met to retain a person for treatment when the person objects.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs OHA to study the standards that must be met to retain a person for treatment when the person objects.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.
Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-04-23 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-04-11 House
Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.
2025-04-11 House
Referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response by order of Speaker.
2025-04-08 House
Work Session held.
2025-04-03 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs OHA to study the standards that must be met to retain a person for treatment when the person objects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to civil commitment.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2488
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Judiciary for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 directs OHA to study the standards that must be met to retain a person for
treatment when the person objects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria. Directs the authority
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not
later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to civil commitment.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall study civil commitment criteria. 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 re-
lated to the judiciary 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 2844