Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB2059: Relating to adult behavioral health facilities; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, August 7, 2025
Digest: The Act creates a program to fund certain mental health and SUD treatment programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 24, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session House Bill 2059 Sponsored by Representatives NOSSE, ANDERSEN; Representatives CHOTZEN, DIEHL, DOBSON, HUDSON, ISADORE, KROPF, NGUYEN H, Senators MEEK, NERON (Presession filed.) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to adult behavioral health facilities; and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section, "residential treatment facility" has the meaning given that term in ORS 443.400. (2) The Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program is established within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state. The authority shall distribute funding to behavioral health programs that the authority determines, according to the guidelines described in subsection (3) of this section, are likely to have the greatest immediate impact on communities' needs for increased withdrawal management facility, residential treatment facility and psychiatric inpatient facility capacity. (3) The authority, after soliciting and considering input from regional partners and practitioners, shall develop guidelines for distributing funding to behavioral health programs. The guidelines shall include, but are not limited to, the following factors: (a) The impact of the behavioral health program on the needs identified in a report that was commissioned by the authority to study statewide needs for residential behavioral health capacity; (b) The ability of the behavioral health program to quickly put the funding …