SB421 • 2025

Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Reynolds,, Representative Sanchez
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 System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.

Digest: The Act tells the System of Care Advisory Council to look at the youth behavioral health work force and report on it.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the System of Care Advisory Council to look at the youth behavioral health work force and report on it.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.
Directs the council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to behavioral health and health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Early Childhood and Behavioral Health.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the System of Care Advisory Council to look at the youth behavioral health work force and report on it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce. Directs the council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to behavioral health and health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to the youth behavioral health workforce.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 421
Sponsored by Senator REYNOLDS, Representative SANCHEZ (at the request of The Ballmer Institute for Children’s
Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon) (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 the System of Care Advisory Council to look at the youth behavioral
health work force and report on it. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.
Directs the council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related
to behavioral health and health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the youth behavioral health workforce.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The System of Care Advisory Council shall study the youth behavioral health
workforce in this state. The council 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 behavioral health and health care 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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