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OR HB2467

Bill

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Unknown

Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Establishes four categories for determining a person needs treatment for mental illness: danger to self, danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs, or has a chronic mental disorder

  • Allows courts to consider whether harmful behavior is "reasonably foreseeable in the near future" rather than requiring imminent threat, and permits consideration of a person's history, patterns of deterioration, and insight into their mental illness

  • Defines "physical harm" as injury, pain, or physiological impairment that is not trivial, and "serious physical harm" as harm placing a person at risk of death or serious irreversible health impairment

  • Requires chronic mental disorder classification to include two prior involuntary hospitalizations within three years and symptoms substantially similar to those preceding prior hospitalizations

  • Applies to individuals taken into custody by treatment facilities or law enforcement on or after the effective date of the act

Legislative Description

Relating to mental illness.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Public Safety6/6/2025
Ways and Means4/11/2025
Judiciary1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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