HB 2949 — Relating to mental health; and declaring an emergency.
Last action — Chapter 677, (2021 Laws): Effective date August 06, 2021.
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed House
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✓Passed Senate
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 11, 2021. Enacted.
Odds of enactment
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Prognosis
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Enacted
Current position in the legislative process.
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21 sponsors
3 primary, 18 co-sponsors signed on.
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Single-party support
Sponsorship is currently within one party (10 D).
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Cleared a recorded vote
Passed 4 recorded votes so far.
Based on stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes, and cross-state momentum — a description of the observable signals, not a prediction.
Summary
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities. Directs authority to expand funding, develop programs and provide incentives to improve access to culturally responsive behavioral health services by tribal members, people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, veterans, persons with disabilities, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, individuals working in correctional facilities, residents of rural areas and other underserved communities. <i>Directs authority to provide funding to counties, community mental health programs and organizations to support individuals to transition from incarceration back into community.</i>] Directs authority to provide grants to licensed practitioners to pay costs of providing supervision of mental health practitioners in private practice. Requires employers of mental health workers to pay supervision costs of workers. <i>Requires authority to provide funding to community mental health programs and private practitioners to ensure access to mental health care by communities disproportionately challenged by COVID-19.</i>] Appropriates moneys to authority to carry out provisions of Act. Changes name of "licensed professional counselor intern" and "licensed marriage and family therapist intern" to "licensed professional counselor associate" and "licensed marriage and family therapist associate." Declares emergency, effective on July 1, 2021.
Bill Text
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Read HB 2949 on the official Oregon source →Action History
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Chapter 677, (2021 Laws): Effective date August 06, 2021.
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Governor signed.
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President signed.
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Speaker signed.
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Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Lieber. Passed.
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Second reading.
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Recommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill.
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Referred to Ways and Means.
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First reading. Referred to President's desk.
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Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Bynum. Passed.
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Second reading.
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Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed.
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Work Session held.
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Work Session held.
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Returned to Full Committee.
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Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services.
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Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
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Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
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Work Session held.
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Public Hearing held.
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Public Hearing held.
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Referred to Behavioral Health with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
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First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Sponsors
- Lew Frederick · Cosponsor
- Janeen Sollman · Cosponsor
- Rob Nosse · Cosponsor
- Tawna Sanchez · Cosponsor
- Pam Marsh · Cosponsor
- Julie Fahey · Cosponsor
- Kate Lieber · Cosponsor
- Sara Gelser Blouin · Cosponsor
- Deb Patterson · Cosponsor
- Dacia Grayber · Cosponsor
- Ricki Ruiz · Cosponsor
- Andrea Valderrama · Cosponsor
- Hai Pham · Cosponsor
- Maxine Dexter · Cosponsor
- Lisa Reynolds · Cosponsor
- Anna Williams · Cosponsor
- Courtney Neron · Cosponsor
- Jeff Reardon · Cosponsor
- Sheri Schouten · Primary
- Teresa Alonso Leon · Primary
- Janelle Bynum · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →3 sponsors · 18 co-sponsors · 69 not signed on · 15 voted No
Sponsors (3)
Co-sponsors (18)
- Lew Frederick Democrat
- Janeen Sollman Democrat
- Rob Nosse Democrat
- Tawna Sanchez Democrat
- Pam Marsh Democrat
- Julie Fahey Democrat
- Kate Lieber
- Sara Gelser Blouin
- Deb Patterson
- Dacia Grayber Democrat
- Ricki Ruiz Democrat
- Andrea Valderrama Democrat
- Hai Pham Democrat
- Maxine Dexter
- Lisa Reynolds
- Anna Williams
- Courtney Neron
- Jeff Reardon
Not signed on (69)
69 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 69 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Democrat | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 7 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 67% | 23% | 0% | 10% |
How each member voted (30)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Betsy Johnson | — | Yea |
| Bill Hansell | — | Not Voting |
| Bill Kennemer | — | Yea |
| Brian Boquist | — | Nay |
| Chuck Riley | — | Yea |
| Chuck Thomsen | — | Nay |
| Dallas Heard | — | Not Voting |
| Dennis Linthicum | — | Nay |
| Elizabeth Steiner Hayward | — | Yea |
| Ginny Burdick | — | Yea |
| Lee Beyer | — | Yea |
| Lynn Findley | — | Nay |
| Michael Dembrow | — | Yea |
| Peter Courtney | — | Yea |
| Tim Knopp | — | Yea |
| Chris Gorsek | Democrat | Yea |
| Deb Patterson | Democrat | Yea |
| Floyd Prozanski | Democrat | Yea |
| James Manning Jr. | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jeff Golden | Democrat | Yea |
| Kate Lieber | Democrat | Yea |
| Kathleen Taylor | Democrat | Yea |
| Kayse Jama | Democrat | Yea |
| Lew Frederick | Democrat | Yea |
| Rob Wagner | Democrat | Yea |
| Sara Gelser Blouin | Democrat | Yea |
| Dick Anderson | Republican | Yea |
| Fred Girod | Republican | Nay |
| Kim Thatcher | Republican | Nay |
| Noah Robinson | Republican | Nay |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Democrat | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 51 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| % of votes cast | 86% | 10% | 0% | 3% |
How each member voted (59)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Lily Morgan | — | Yea |
| Andrea Salinas | — | Yea |
| Anna Williams | — | Yea |
| Barbara Smith Warner | — | Yea |
| Bill Post | — | Nay |
| Brad Witt | — | Yea |
| Brian Clem | — | Not Voting |
| Courtney Neron | — | Yea |
| Dan Rayfield | — | Yea |
| Duane Stark | — | Yea |
| Gary Leif | — | Yea |
| Jack Zika | — | Yea |
| Janelle Bynum | — | Yea |
| Jeff Reardon | — | Yea |
| Karin Power | — | Yea |
| Marty Wilde | — | Yea |
| Maxine Dexter | — | Yea |
| Paul Holvey | — | Yea |
| Rachel Prusak | — | Yea |
| Raquel Moore-Green | — | Yea |
| Ron Noble | — | Yea |
| Sheri Schouten | — | Yea |
| Teresa Alonso Leon | — | Yea |
| Tina Kotek | — | Yea |
| Andrea Valderrama | Democrat | Yea |
| Dacia Grayber | Democrat | Yea |
| David Gomberg | Democrat | Yea |
| Janeen Sollman | Democrat | Yea |
| Jason Kropf | Democrat | Yea |
| John Lively | Democrat | Yea |
| Julie Fahey | Democrat | Yea |
| Ken Helm | Democrat | Yea |
| Khanh Pham | Democrat | Yea |
| Lisa Reynolds | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark Meek | Democrat | Yea |
| Nancy Nathanson | Democrat | Yea |
| Pam Marsh | Democrat | Yea |
| Paul Evans | Democrat | Yea |
| Ricki Ruiz | Democrat | Yea |
| Rob Nosse | Democrat | Yea |
| Sue Rieke Smith | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Susan McLain | Democrat | Yea |
| Tawna Sanchez | Democrat | Yea |
| Wlnsvey Campos | Democrat | Yea |
| Zach Hudson | Democrat | Yea |
| Bobby Levy | Republican | Yea |
| Boomer Wright | Republican | Yea |
| Cedric Hayden | Republican | Yea |
| Christine Drazan | Republican | Nay |
| Daniel Bonham | Republican | Yea |
| David Brock Smith | Republican | Yea |
| E. Werner Reschke | Republican | Nay |
| Jami Cate | Republican | Nay |
| Kim Wallan | Republican | Nay |
| Mark Owens | Republican | Yea |
| Rick Lewis | Republican | Yea |
| Shelly Boshart Davis | Republican | Yea |
| Suzanne Weber | Republican | Yea |
| Vikki Breese-Iverson | Republican | Nay |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Unaffiliated | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 36 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 78% | 22% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (46)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unaffiliated | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (9)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Lily Morgan | — | Yea |
| Andrea Salinas | — | Yea |
| Raquel Moore-Green | — | Yea |
| Janeen Sollman | Democrat | Yea |
| John Lively | Democrat | Yea |
| Lisa Reynolds | Democrat | Yea |
| Rob Nosse | Democrat | Yea |
| Tawna Sanchez | Democrat | Yea |
| Boomer Wright | Republican | Yea |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does HB 2949 do?
- Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities. Directs authority to expand funding, develop programs and provide incentives to improve access to culturally responsive behavioral health services by tribal members, people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, veterans, persons with disabilities, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, individuals working in correctional facilities, residents of rural areas and other underserved communities. <i>Directs authority to provide funding to counties, community mental health programs and organizations to support individuals to transition from incarceration back into community.</i>] Directs authority to provide grants to licensed practitioners to pay costs of providing supervision of mental health practitioners in private practice. Requires employers of mental health workers to pay supervision costs of workers. <i>Requires authority to provide funding to community mental health programs and private practitioners to ensure access to mental health care by communities disproportionately challenged by COVID-19.</i>] Appropriates moneys to authority to carry out provisions of Act. Changes name of "licensed professional counselor intern" and "licensed marriage and family therapist intern" to "licensed professional counselor associate" and "licensed marriage and family therapist associate." Declares emergency, effective on July 1, 2021.
- Who sponsors HB 2949?
- HB 2949 is sponsored by Lew Frederick (Democrat), Janeen Sollman (Democrat), Rob Nosse (Democrat), Tawna Sanchez (Democrat), Pam Marsh (Democrat), Julie Fahey (Democrat), Kate Lieber, Sara Gelser Blouin, Deb Patterson, Dacia Grayber (Democrat), Ricki Ruiz (Democrat), Andrea Valderrama (Democrat), Hai Pham (Democrat), Maxine Dexter, Lisa Reynolds, Anna Williams, Courtney Neron, Jeff Reardon, Sheri Schouten, Teresa Alonso Leon, and Janelle Bynum.
- What is the current status of HB 2949?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 11, 2021. Enacted.
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