HB2998 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Nelson, Representative Isadore,, Valderrama,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to adopt rules to require certain mental health providers to screen for racial trauma.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to adopt rules to require certain mental health providers to screen for racial trauma.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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 with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to adopt rules to require certain mental health providers to screen for racial trauma. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to behavioral health screening for racial trauma; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2998
Sponsored by Representative NELSON; Representatives ISADORE, VALDERRAMA (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 adopt rules to require certain mental health providers to screen
for racial trauma. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that
are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to behavioral health screening for racial trauma; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules to require behavioral health
providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to:
(1) Include in an initial assessment for behavioral health services a screening to deter-
mine if an individual has experienced racial trauma; and
(2) If the individual is determined to have experienced racial trauma, connect the indi-
vidual with behavioral health services that are culturally specific to the racial trauma expe-
rienced.
SECTION 2. (1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.
(2) The Oregon Health Authority may take any action before the operative date specified
in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the authority to exercise, on and
after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions
and powers conferred on the authority by section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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