HB2666 • 2025

Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.

Digest: The Act requires each county to have a place to treat certain people who are in custody waiting for trial.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act requires each county to have a place to treat certain people who are in custody waiting for trial.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Judiciary with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act requires each county to have a place to treat certain people who are in custody waiting for trial. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to pretrial detainees; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2666
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 requires each county to have a place to treat certain people who are in custody
waiting for trial. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental
health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellec-
tual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to pretrial detainees; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Each county must have in operation a facility for the housing and
treatment of individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental
disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial. Each facility must have
the capacity to treat all detainees from the community who are in custody and be staffed
by behavioral health professionals from the community mental health program and the
sheriff’s deputies. The facility shall be managed by the sheriff in partnership with the com-
munity mental health program director.
(2) If a county does not have a community mental health program, the Oregon Health
Authority shall provide behavioral health professionals for the facility and partner with the
county sheriff in the management of the facility.
(3) The Oregon Health Authority may adopt rules governing the facilities to protect the
health and safety of detainees and staff at the facility.
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 $_______, which shall be distributed to counties for the con-
struction and maintenance of facilities described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3.
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
July 1, 2025.
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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