Oregon Senate Bill 620 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Failed on June 25 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-06-25 - In committee upon adjournment.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene two work groups to study statutory and regulatory framework for behavioral health systems and make recommendations to reduce administrative burdens on behavioral health care providers and increase system efficiencies. Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene two work groups to study statutory and regulatory framework for behavioral health systems and make recommendations to reduce administrative burdens on behavioral health care providers and increase system efficiencies. Specifies membership and duties of work groups. Requires authority to report recommendations of work groups for legislative changes to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2024. Directs authority to take specific actions apart from work groups to identify and eliminate administrative burdens on behavioral health care providers. Sunsets January 2, 2025. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Relating to behavioral health care; declaring an emergency.

Sen. Katherine Lieber [D]

Rep. Robert Nosse [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-06-25	Senate	In committee upon adjournment.
2023-01-11	Senate	Referred to Human Services, then Ways and Means.
2023-01-09	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Measures/Overview/SB620
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB620/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/66571