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OR House Bill 2005

Legislation

State: Oregon
Signed: July 24, 2025

Effective: July 24, 2025
Chapter: 559

Summary

House Bill 2005 authorizes a mental health treatment declaration to be signed before a Notary.

Affects

Amends Section 127.700 of the Oregon Revised Statutes.

Changes
  1. Adds the option of having a mental health treatment declaration signed before a Notary.
  2. Specifies that the notarial act on a mental health treatment declaration is a signature witnessing.
Analysis

In Oregon, an individual may sign a mental health treatment declaration if a court or two “capacity evaluators” (a licensed independent practitioner or license psychologist) determine the person is unable to make decisions for themselves because their ability to receive and evaluate information effectively or communicate decisions is impaired to such an extent that they lack the capacity to refuse or consent to mental health treatment. Previously, the declaration only had to be signed before two witnesses, but House Bill 2005 provides the option to have it notarized.

Read House Bill 2005.

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