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Bills meant to ease crowding at Oregon’s state mental hospital and strengthen the state’s troubled behavioral health system will likely be left behind during this year’s legislative session, even if Senate Republicans end their walkout. Most of the bills aimed at easing the Oregon State Hospital’s capacity issues died in committee. Bills that would have funded local treatment and prohibited ...

For the first time in any state, the Oregon legislation writes into law specified ratios of nurses to patients in 12 types of hospital units.

Bills meant to ease crowding at Oregon’s state mental hospital and strengthen the state’s troubled behavioral health system will likely be left behind during this year’s legislative session, even if Senate Republicans end their walkout. Most of the bills aimed at easing the Oregon State Hospital’s capacity issues died in committee. Bills that would have funded local treatment and prohibited ...

Bills that would have funded local treatment and prohibited housing discrimination against mental health patients didn’t progress before the walkout began.

Hundreds of bills are set to perish if the impasse continues; measures to create more affordable housing, to help at-risk students, bills aimed at combating climate change and measures addressing the public-defender crisis.