Oregon legislative file.

Changes the laws on when people who are mentally ill can be made to get treatment. Changes the laws on what happens to a person charged with a crime who is not fit to go to trial. Changes the laws on some facility siting. . Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder. Describes the evidence that the court may consider when determining whether a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder. Modifies the diversion from commitment process. Creates a new procedure for determining when a person is incapacitated for purposes of a declaration for mental health treatment. Modifies the declaration for mental health treatment form. Describes when a declaration for mental health treatment obviates the need for involuntary treatment. Modifies provisions regarding the sharing of information regarding certain persons receiving mental health treatment. Includes certain attempted criminal conduct in the types of criminal conduct for which a person may be committed as an extremely dangerous person with mental illness. Directs the Judicial Department to collect and analyze data regarding tribal and state interactions relating to certain involuntary treatment of tribal members. Establishes the Task Force on the Intersection of Tribal and State Forensic Behavioral Health. Establishes maximum periods of commitment and community restoration services for criminal defendants determined to lack fitness to proceed. Establishes procedures for requesting extensions to the maximum periods up to a specified total time period. Sunsets the maximum periods on January 1, 2028. Modifies the process for court determinations on fitness to proceed. Specifies what the court may consider when making the determination and procedures for the hearing on the determination. Directs the court to determine, upon finding a defendant to lack fitness to proceed, whether the defendant may only be discharged to certain secure facilities. Modifies the process by which a committed defendant, determined to no longer require a hospital level of care, is discharged to other placements. Establishes procedures for objecting to proposed placements and court procedures when no placements are identified. Requires local governments to allow, within an urban growth boundary, siting of residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes or crisis stabilization centers within additional land use zones. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the Behavioral Health Division for payments made to community mental health programs for civil commitments. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Public Defense Commission for providing public defense to financially eligible persons in civil commitment proceedings. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act tells OHA to make new rules and study certain residential mental health settings. . Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure residential treatment homes. Requires the authority to report findings and recommendations to the Legislative Assembly. Sunsets on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

The Act tells OHA to give grants to some entities to help them hire and keep behavioral health care workers. The Act also makes changes to laws to improve the safety of workers in certain mental health care and SUD treatment settings. . Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to eligible entities to foster the recruitment and retention of behavioral health care providers at the entities. Specifies the manners in which an entity may use a grant. Requires an entity that receives a grant to report to the authority. [Directs the authority to develop and implement an incentive payment to eligible entities in order to enable the entities to increase employee wages.] Entitles an employee of a behavioral health employer to be reinstated with back pay if the employer unlawfully retaliates against the employee. Allows certain facilities to limit a resident's access to specified items. Requires a behavioral health employer to provide safety trainings to workers. Becomes operative July 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

The Act makes changes to tax credits. . [Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the personal income tax system. Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue not later than December 1, 2026.] Extends sunsets for certain tax credits and exemptions. Increases allowed amounts and statewide caps and otherwise modifies certain tax credits and exemptions. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Act would give a credit off their UI taxes to employers whose rate for 2025 is less than their rate for the prior year by at least two and a half percentage points. . Provides a credit against an employer's unemployment insurance taxes for calendar year 2025 [years 2025, 2026 and 2027] if the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2025 is at least [three] 2.5 percentage points less than the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2024.

The Act increases fees under the wildlife laws. The Act allows an agency to create a new fee. The Act creates a new subaccount. The Act increases fees under commercial fishing laws. The Act takes effect 91 days after session ends. . Increases certain wildlife license, tag and permit fee amounts. Authorizes the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish ocean endorsements by rule. Establishes the Marine Fisheries Enhancement Fund Subaccount within the Fish and Wildlife Account. Increases certain license, permit and participation fees under the commercial fishing laws. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.