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Study prompts bill seeking $64.8 million to close community mental‑health funding gap
Summary
Lawmakers heard from county mental‑health program directors and officials on House Bill 2056, which would appropriate $64.8 million over the biennium to close documented shortfalls for civil commitment, aid‑and‑assist and crisis stabilization services identified in an OHA actuarial cost study.
The House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care heard testimony on House Bill 2056 and its dash‑1 amendment, which would appropriate $64,800,000 ($32.4 million per year) to the Oregon Health Authority to cover funding shortfalls identified in an actuarial cost study of mandated community mental‑health services.
Representative Rob Noss, who sponsored the bill, said the appropriation follows an 80‑page cost study directed by House Bill 4092 that quantified the gap in funding for three high‑need services: civil commitment, aid‑and‑assist (restoration services for people unable to aid in their own defense), and crisis stabilization. Noss said the study was developed with actuarial…
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