SB884 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.

Digest: The Act directs the OHA to study ways to increase some people's access to mental health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs the OHA to study ways to increase some people's access to mental health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
Requires the authority to report findings of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-21 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
2025-01-21 Senate
Referred to Judiciary.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs the OHA to study ways to increase some people's access to mental health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs. Requires the authority to report findings of the study to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.
Requires the authority to administer a pilot program to provide grants to hospitals and their community partners to form regional partnerships to increase capacity to provide care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
Relating to: Relating to individuals with complex health care needs; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 884
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB
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 the OHA to study ways to increase some people’s access to mental
health care and to set up a grant program for those people to access mental health care. (Flesch
Readability Score: 60.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of
solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have
complex mental or behavioral health needs. Requires the authority to report findings of the study
to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.
Requires the authority to administer a pilot program to provide grants to hospitals and their
community partners to form regional partnerships to increase capacity to provide care for individ-
uals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to individuals with complex health care needs; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall conduct a study exploring possible
solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who are placed in outpatient commitment
or who are on conditional release under ORS 426.130 and for other individuals who have
complex mental health or behavioral health needs.
(2) The authority shall convene an advisory group to consult with the authority on the
study and to provide recommendations on possible solutions for ensuring access to care.
(3) No later than September 15, 2026, the authority shall report the findings and recom-
mendations from the study, in the manner provided in ORS 192.245, to the interim commit-
tees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.
SECTION 2. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall implement a pilot program to provide
grants to hospitals and their community partners to form regional partnerships to increase
their capacity to provide care for individuals who are placed in outpatient commitment or
who are on conditional release under ORS 426.130 or who have complex mental health or
behavioral health needs.
(2) The authority may require grantees to collect and report data to assess the success
of the pilot program in improving access to and the capacity to provide care.
(3) No later than September 15, 2028, the authority shall report, in the manner provided
in ORS 192.245, the authority’s evaluation of the results of the pilot program and may re-
commend legislation to implement aspects of the program that were a success.
SECTION 3.
(1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
(2) Section 2 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2029.
SECTION 4.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026. The Oregon
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 2027
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Health Authority shall take all steps prior to January 1, 2026, that are necessary to carry
out section 2 of this 2025 Act on and after January 1, 2026.
SECTION 5.
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 may be expended for carrying out section 2 of
this 2025 Act.
SECTION 6. 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.
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