Senate Bill 755

Modifies and provides for implementation of Ballot Measure 110 (2020). Renames "Addiction Recovery Center" as "Behavioral Health Resource Network" and modifies services that must be provided by networks. Renames "24/7" triage as "screening" and specifies requirements for screening. Requires Oversight and Accountability Council to provide grants and funding to agencies and organizations to establish Behavioral Health Resource Networks. Modifies requirements for receiving grants and funding. If money remains available after grants and funding are committed to Behavioral Health Resource Networks, requires counties to provide grants and funding to other agencies or organizations to provide specified services. Requires grants and funding to be disbursed to ensure at lease one Behavioral Health Network is established within each county by January 1, 2022. Modifies quorum requirement for council. Provides that members of council are subject to provisions of ORS chapter 244, including requirement to submit statements of economic interest to Oregon Government Ethics Commission. Requires Oregon Health Authority to post on website information about recipients of grants or funding. Removes sunset on Behavioral Health Resource Network statewide telephone hotline established by authority. Specifies requirements for hotline. Directs Division of Audits of office of Secretary of State to conduct performance audits and financial reviews, beginning with real-time audit no later than December 31, 2023. Specifies scope of audits and financial reviews. Requires authority to quarterly report to Legislative Assembly on expenditures from Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund. Requires authority to report to interim subcommittee of Joint Committee on Ways and Means related to human services specified information about grants and funding awarded. Provides that minimum fine for Class E violation is $45. Directs court to dismiss Class E violation citation upon receiving verification that person completed substance use disorder screening. Requires enforcement officer issuing Class E violation citation to provide person receiving citation with information concerning how person may obtain screening. Directs Legislative Assembly to allocate moneys deposited into Criminal Fine Account as payment of fines on Class E violations to Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund. Provides that person may not be charged with crime of failure to appear on Class E violation. Prohibits juvenile court from waiving Class E violation proceeding to municipal court. Authorizes youth to enter into formal accountability agreement on Class E violation. Provides that municipal and justice courts have no jurisdiction over Class E violations. Makes possession of substantial quantity of Schedule I controlled substance, including heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, psilocybin or psilocin, Class B felony punishable by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Provides that possession of substantial quantity of Schedule II controlled substance, including cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, constitutes Class C felony punishable by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Reduces penalties for possession of less than 40 pills, tablets, capsules or user units of hydrocodone to Class E violation punishable by maximum of $100 fine. Establishes substantial quantities of fentanyl for purposes of unlawful delivery, manufacture and possession offenses and mandatory sentences. Authorizes use of presumptive test for controlled substances as prima facie evidence of identity of controlled substance in Class E violation proceeding. Authorizes district attorney to initiate Class E violation proceeding when person is charged with offense that would constitute Class E violation had offense been committed on or after February 1, 2021. Makes form and style changes to provisions in Ballot Measure 110 (202

In the Senate

• Senate, third reading21–8

  Passed · Jun 16 · 1 present

• House of Representatives, third reading39–15

  Passed · Jun 26 · 5 present

• Senate, concurrence19–7

  Agreed to the other chamber's changes · Jun 26 · 4 present

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Apr 23

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jun 14

• House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jun 25

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In the Senate Feb 18 – Jun 16

1. Feb 18Introduced
2. Feb 22Sent to Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
3. Mar 1Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
4. Mar 15Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
5. Mar 30Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
6. Apr 1Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
7. Apr 5Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
8. Apr 13Heard in Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
9. Apr 23Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
10. Sent to Ways and Means
11. Jun 5Sent to Human Services Subcommittee
12. Jun 10Heard in Human Services Subcommittee
13. Returned to Ways and Means
14. Jun 11Heard in Ways and Means
15. Jun 14Ways and Means recommended it as amended
16. Jun 15Read a second time
17. Jun 16Passed the Senate, 21 to 8

In the House of Representatives Jun 17 – Jun 26

1. Jun 17Arrived in the House of Representatives
2. Sent to Ways and Means
3. Jun 24Heard in Ways and Means
4. Jun 25Ways and Means recommended it as amended
5. Jun 26Read a second time
6. Passed the House of Representatives, 39 to 15

Back in the Senate Jun 26 – Jun 29

1. Jun 26The Senate agreed to the House of Representatives's amendments and passed it again, 19 to 7
2. Jun 29Signed in the Senate

To the Governor Jul 1 – Aug 20

1. Jul 1Signed in the House of Representatives
2. Jul 19Signed by the Governor
3. Aug 20Became chapter 591 of Oregon Laws 2021
4. In force from July 19, 2021