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SB173 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.

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 Senate 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 behavioral health.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).
  • Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
  • 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

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. 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 Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 173
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary)
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. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. Directs the authority to sub-
mit 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. The authority
shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
health 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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