Story Threads
Track the biggest stories in Oregon healthcare as they develop. Each thread connects related events, legislation, testimony, and analysis into a single timeline.
Featured Threads
Corporate Control of Oregon Healthcare
PeaceHealth's ER privatization puts Oregon's SB 951 law to the test — the fight over corporate control of clinical practice is the defining regulatory battle for Oregon healthcare.
Oregon CCO Financial Crisis
Oregon's coordinated care system faces mounting financial pressure — CCO rate changes, dental payment cuts, and PacificSource's exit from Lane County signal deeper structural problems.
Rural Oregon Healthcare Investment
Federal and state investment attempts to stabilize rural Oregon healthcare — but the gap between funding and need remains enormous.
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Legislative threads with 3+ tracked events
SB 916: Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
HB 5025: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Emergency Board for certain biennial expenses.
HB 3942: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age.
HB 3127: Requires use of the state electronic reporting system to report deaths to the Center for Health Statistics.
HB 3134: Requires additional reporting about prior authorization to the Department of Consumer and Business Services from insurers offering a health benefit plan and tells the department to make this data publicly available.
HB 3506: Transfers moneys from the Senior Property Tax Deferral Revolving Account to the Healthy Homes Repair Fund for the purpose of supporting seniors and individuals with disabilities and to the Department of Revenue to increase public knowledge of property tax deferral programs.
SB 1173: Provides that certain entities providing a product as part of health care services are not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of the product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the entity was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.
HB 3816: Provides for 50 percent of awards of restitution ordered to an insurance carrier to be paid to the Department of Justice for purposes of victim services funding.
SB 537: Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
HB 3727: Allows a physician or physician associate to use telemedicine to practice medicine or provide health care services under specified circumstances to a patient located out of state.
HB 2940: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to implement a program for providing to emergency departments in real time notifications that identify patients with hemoglobinopathies and provide information on how to contact a hematologist.
SB 951: Private Equity and MSO Restrictions in Healthcare
HB 2341: Adds a uniformed service member's or veteran's e-mail address to the information that the Director of Human Services, Early Learning System Director, Director of Transportation and Director of the Oregon Health Authority are required to provide to the Director of Veterans' Affairs.
SB 842: Increases for hospitals the annual license fees to be obtained by the Oregon Health Authority.
SB 829: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a program to assist eligible entities in paying the costs of property insurance or liability insurance premiums for affordable housing, shelters and other facilities.
SB 230: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to require oral health care providers to complete an intake screening with an enrollee of the Veterans Dental Program within 60 days after the enrollee initiates contact with the provider.
SB 822: Expands network adequacy requirements to health benefit plans offered to large employers and modifies requirements.
SB 840: Modifies and adds laws related to regulating vehicle drivers, vehicles, vehicle insurance, driver records, vehicle dealers and dismantlers.
HB 3226: Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.
SB 463: Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by January 31 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legislative Assembly concerning the soundness of the state's Insurance Fund.
SB 844: Changes the date by which the Oregon Health Authority report on opioid and opiate overdoses is due to the Legislative Assembly.
SB 837: Modifies laws governing the emergency health care provider registry to allow a broader range of volunteer services and allow deployment of volunteers outside of declared emergencies.
SB 690: Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports.
SB 1137: Requires health benefit plans to cover autologous breast reconstruction procedures and related services with specific requirements related to out-of-pocket costs, cost-sharing, utilization review, reimbursement rates and network adequacy.
HB 2205: Requires a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to be for an initial term of no less than five years and to be the same length for all coordinated care organizations contracting with the authority.
HB 5028: Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the State Board of Pharmacy.
SB 5547: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority for the biennium ending June 30, 2025.
HB 2385: Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
SB 920: Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon.
SB 824: Requires certain carriers that offer health benefit plans in this state to report additional information to the Department of Consumer and Business Services and requires the department to keep this information confidential.
SB 1168: Prohibits per-visit compensation for home health care and home hospice care staff.
HB 2236: Allows a professional employer organization to elect to treat the employees of a client employer for whom the PEO has assumed employer responsibilities as either the employees of the PEO itself or of the client employer for certain purposes under unemployment insurance law.
SB 221: Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs, and to report on the programs to the Legislative Assembly.
SB 1161: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to issue a license to an organ procurement organization to operate an organ transport vehicle.
SB 536: Provides that a licensed physician associate or nurse practitioner may be a medical examiner.
SB 905: Eliminates reporting redundancies required under a Healthy and Safe Schools Plan.
SB 846: Modifies the requirements for how the Oregon Health Authority monitors the progress of coordinated care organizations in improving access to and the quality of health care for children and youth in the areas served by the coordinated care organizations.
SB 296: Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study ways to expedite the eligibility determination process for long term care services and supports.
HB 2015: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure residential treatment homes.
HB 3243: Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan reimbursement of ambulance services.
HB 3294: Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopted, the applicable statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for the unit.
HB 2292: Requires health benefit plans and medical assistance managed plans to provide coverage with no cost-sharing for additional treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and prohibits requiring prior authorization.
HB 3043: Defines "monitoring agreement" and "workplace monitor" for purposes of the impaired health professional program.
HB 3064: Requires certain health insurers, the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees' Benefit Board to cover treatment for perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
SB 598: Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and cost-sharing provisions for opioid and nonopioid drugs when they are prescribed for the same treatment.
HB 2670: Broadens the description of what constitutes a health impairment for determining when a child is considered a child with a disability for purposes of qualifying for special education.
SB 907: Requires an applicant for a license to manufacture psilocybin to submit to the Oregon Health Authority information regarding the ownership and location of the premises to be licensed or for which a license will be renewed.
HB 2010: Extends the assessment on earnings from health plan premiums, the assessment on payments by the Oregon Health Authority to managed care organizations, the assessment on hospitals and the Oregon Reinsurance Program.
HB 4075: Requires the State Treasurer to use up to $44 million from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to guarantee a loan made to a rural hospital for financial stabilization.
HB 2024: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to eligible entities to foster the recruitment and retention of behavioral health care providers at the entities.
HB 2059: Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state.
HB 2208: Requires a coordinated care organization to collaborate with local public health authorities, community mental health programs, local planning committees and hospitals in conducting a community health assessment and adopting a community health improvement plan.
HB 2685: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
HB 3045: Authorizes the State Board of Pharmacy to require a person under investigation by the board to undergo a mental, physical, chemical dependency or competency evaluation.
SB 729: Extends to all public bodies the prohibition against denying mental health services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
HB 2942: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse pharmacies and pharmacists in the same manner as other health care providers for certain services related to HIV treatment.
HB 2013: Includes outpatient facilities with a certified substance use disorder program that employ certified alcohol and drug counselors as providers for the purposes of mental health treatment insurance coverage.
SB 865: Requires the State Landscape Contractors Board to determine that a landscape contracting business is an independent contractor with responsibility for obtaining workers' compensation insurance if the landscape contracting business performs certain work related to backflow assemblies for irrigation systems and ornamental water features, to landscape irrigation control wiring and outdoor landscape lighting or to removing or pruning trees or tree limbs or stumps or performing tree or tree limb guying.
SB 873: Repeals a license issued by the Oregon Medical Board to certain physicians licensed to practice in other jurisdictions.
SB 757: Provides that, in determining the salary of a chaplain at the Oregon Health and Science University for purposes of the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan, a housing allowance shall be treated as if it were includable in the chaplain's taxable income.
SB 831: Requires the person that has ultimate control over an insurer to file a group capital calculation with the chief insurance regulatory official of the state that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines is the lead state for the insurance holding company system of which the insurer is a part.
HB 3021: Makes changes to statutes related to unemployment insurance law and paid family and medical leave insurance law.
HB 3022: Authorizes the Department of Revenue to disclose information to the Employment Department for purposes of administering the paid family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 2695: Requires the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors to include specified individuals in the search and hiring committees for a president of the university.
HB 2540: Requires certain health insurers to credit any amount an enrollee pays directly to a provider toward out-of-pocket costs and deductibles in certain circumstances.
HB 3211: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and make available a nonopioid directive form.
HB 2741: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot screening program and implement additional programs related to newborn bloodspot screening.
SB 549: Requires the Oregon Health Authority or a coordinated care organization to make a determination on a request for prior authorization for medical assistance coverage for the cost to repair complex rehabilitation technology within 72 hours after receiving the request.
SB 803: Requires the Adjutant General to allow efforts to make the state-sponsored life insurance program available to members of the Oregon National Guard.
SB 858: Makes technical changes to statutory provisions concerning the administration of the family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 2130: Makes various changes to the responsibilities of the Oregon Insurance Guaranty Association with respect to providing coverage for the obligations of member insurers.
HB 4047: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.
HB 4131: Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to issue a license to operate a mobile pharmacy to a qualified applicant.
SB 1598: Requires certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for preventive health services in accordance with federal rules in effect on June 30, 2025, and immunizations recommended by the Public Health Officer in the future.
HB 3409: Allows insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers to require that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug unless certain requirements are met.
HB 2211: Defines a "dental subcontractor."
HB 3761: Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.
HB 2789: Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority under specified circumstances from requiring, as a condition of reimbursing the cost of the service, a primary care provider to order a covered care management service provided by a licensed registered nurse to a medical assistance recipient.
HB 2564: Revises the insurance rate review process.
SB 841: Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority to enter into an agreement with a federally recognized Indian tribe in Oregon or a tribal epidemiology center in Oregon to allow the tribe or center to accept reports of reportable diseases and investigate cases of reportable diseases.
HB 3242: Requires health insurers to pay providers who are joining an in-network practice the same as in-network providers during the credentialing period.
HB 2948: Allows a school administrator or other staff member who is not a nurse to supervise a school nurse or registered nurse in a school setting for purposes not related to the practice of nursing.
HB 2387: Allows licensees of certain health professional regulatory boards to provide psilocybin services as licensed psilocybin service facilitators while providing the health care or behavioral health care services the provider is authorized to provide.
HB 2594: Requires a dental laboratory to register with the Health Licensing Office.
HB 3044: Defines "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse," "diagnosing" and "medication aide."
SB 85: Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the Department of the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the State Forestry Department and the insurance industry, to evaluate and develop recommendations for community-based wildfire risk mitigation to reduce wildfire risks and increase insurance affordability and availability.
SB 834: Prohibits state hospitals from providing inpatient services to individuals who are under 18 years of age.
HB 2915: Allows disclosure without authorization of written accounts containing individually identifiable health information to the Psychiatric Security Review Board for an individual who is under the jurisdiction of the board and conditionally released to the Department of Corrections.
HB 3063: Provides that a student who is in a hospital educational program shall continue to remain enrolled in the school district in which the student had been a resident prior to being in the hospital educational program only for the purpose of maintaining access to classroom curricula and associated technology.
HB 2812: Exempts individually identifiable health information in the possession of the Psychiatric Security Review Board from disclosure under public records laws and allows for disclosure in certain circumstances.
HB 4040: Modifies the requirements for screening a hospital patient for presumptive eligibility for financial assistance.
HB 4156: Modifies the requirements for Medicaid supplemental reimbursements paid to emergency medical services providers.
SB 1520: Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to adopt rules establishing an accounting system for handling moneys in the Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund.
HB 3912: Requires an individual who uses the title "doctor" in connection with a health care profession to designate on specified material, including social media and professional name badges, the health care profession in which the individual earned a doctoral degree.
HB 2586: Permits an asylum seeker who is a student at a public university in this state or Oregon Health and Science University to receive an exemption from nonresident tuition and fees.
SB 699: Expands the health insurance coverage of prosthetic and orthotic devices and exempts the Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board from the expansion of covered services unless the boards provide notice to the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
SB 1568: Establishes coverage levels for doula services in the state medical assistance program and for health benefit plans that provide coverage for pregnancy and childbirth expenses.
HB 4088: Declares this state's policy to protect engagement in certain activities relating to reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment.
HB 4127: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt a payment mechanism to pay certain nonprofit reproductive health care providers that are not eligible to receive federal Medicaid funds for services provided to medical assistance recipients.
HB 2271: Provides a credit against an employer's unemployment insurance taxes for calendar year 2025 if the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2025 is at least 2.5 percentage points less than the employer's tax rate for calendar year 2024.
HB 2128: Updates and standardizes state laws that govern soliciting, offering, negotiating and selling travel insurance and products and services that include or are related to travel insurance.
HCR 2: Declares a commitment to the health and safety of firefighters and to finding an urgent solution to the problem of firefighting personal protective gear that contains cancer-causing chemicals.
HB 4070: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment.
HB 4039: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
HB 4107: Requires an urgent care center to make publicly available specified information about the urgent care center, offer specified services and, except in certain circumstances, have at least one licensed health care provider on site during the hours of operation.
HB 4083: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to, no later than June 30, 2027, adopt a uniform process for credentialing behavioral health providers and select an existing electronic credentialing system.
SB 1570: Requires hospitals to have policies and procedures in place that address how the hospital will respond if a law enforcement authority arrives at the hospital and to designate which areas of the hospital are not open to the public.
HB 4069: Requires a behavioral health employer to implement a written safety policy or plan for the physical safety of individuals working for the behavioral health employer.
SB 1547: Authorizes the Oregon Board of Psychology to issue a license to practice behavioral health promotion, prevention and brief intervention to a qualified applicant.
HB 4066: Prohibits the student member of the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors from participating in any discussions or action by the board or attending any executive session of the board involving collective bargaining issues that affect students.
SB 957: Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
HCR 28: Designates the week of August 17 to 23, 2025, as Community Healthcare Workers Week.
HCR 202: Declares a state policy goal that by 2033 Oregon's health care system will be more affordable and accessible.
HB 4179: Permits the Oregon Health and Science University to create and maintain a nonprofit corporation under the laws of this state so long as the university is a corporate member of the corporation.
SB 1527: Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance, Oregon Educators Benefit Board and Public Employees' Benefit Board coverage of cervical cancer screenings and follow-up examinations.
HB 4077: Authorizes a public utility, upon approval by the Public Utility Commission, to issue bonds and securitize debt for costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred by the public utility associated with a self-insurance or captive insurance program.
SB 847: Increases the Retirement Health Insurance Account subsidy under the Public Employees Retirement System.
SB 174: Provides that a violation of prohibitions against certain practices with respect to insurance is subject to an enforcement action under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
HB 2591: Allows the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to include as eligible providers physicians who practice anesthesiology and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the health care provider incentive program.
HB 2125: Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to waive the unpaid waiting week period for unemployment insurance claimants who are unable to perform services due a state-declared emergency related to severe weather.
HB 4028: Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
SB 1181: Prohibits the increased cost or denial of a Medicare supplement insurance policy due to a preexisting condition and establishes open enrollment standards for Medicare supplement policies.
HB 3051: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study fitness to proceed and requires the authority to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than May 1, 2026.
HB 4147: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with the Department of Human Services and the Employment Department to submit an annual report that provides information about employers that employ 500 or more employees in this state and have employees who are medical assistance recipients.
HB 4098: Provides that a violation of prohibitions against certain practices with respect to insurance is subject to an enforcement action under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
SB 1198: Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems.
HB 2311: Provides that the Oregon Health Authority is not required to use administrative law judges from the Office of Administrative Hearings for contested case hearings involving the Oregon State Hospital.
HB 2954: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction prevention services.
HB 3201: Directs the Department of Education to implement policies and procedures that increase access to healthy and culturally relevant food for children in child care.
SB 989: Permits a child's parent or guardian to admit the child, with or without the child's consent, to an inpatient treatment facility or program licensed by the Oregon Health Authority or the Department of Human Services for certain mental, emotional or behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment.
SB 1060: Requires a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offered or provided by the hospital.
SB 909: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to disregard parental income when determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance if the child has a physical disability or chronic illness that requires a hospital or nursing home level of care.
HB 3439: Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within the scope of their practice if the services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians, physician associates or nurse practioners.
SB 539: Requires a hospital or the hospital's health system to report annually to the Oregon Health Authority certain information regarding facility fees that are charged or billed for patient visits at the hospital's or health system's hospital-based facilities.
HB 2690: Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legislative Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative Assembly to review a specified number of proposed measures sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service.
HB 2249: Establishes the Task Force on Health Care Apprenticeships and Career Pathways.
SB 443: Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Area Health Education Center program of Oregon Health and Science University for supporting the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians.
SB 125: Phases in an exemption from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
HB 2537: Establishes the Veterans Waiver Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide, beginning in 2026, medical assistance to low-income veterans who reside in Oregon.
SB 835: Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration withthe nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon, to adopt rules governing the collection, storage and use of data on tribal affiliation.
HB 2470: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expand the capacity of the Oregon State Hospital.
HB 2147: Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be distributed to Oregon Health and Science University for purposes of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program.
SB 597: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program to provide financial support to certified dental sealant programs that promote and engage in oral health care coordination activities.
HB 2488: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.
HB 3460: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a program to reimburse the cost of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for low-income veterans who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder and are ineligible for medical assistance.
SB 176: Removes the requirement that the Oregon Health Authority establish a marijuana grow site registration system.
HB 2476: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to fitness to proceed and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2026.
SB 751: Establishes the Task Force on Health Insurance Coverage for Retired Police and Fire Members of the Public Employees Retirement System.
SB 527: Directs the Oregon Health Authority toaward grants to local workforce development boards to partner with certain entities toestablish and implement behavioral health education and training programs for high school students.
HB 3192: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of screening newborns for five specific diseases under the Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
SB 283: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to provide certain payments to hospitals, long term care facilities, residential care facilities and federally qualified health centers to support the health care workforce.
HB 2202: Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology.
SB 530: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition.
HB 3326: Establishes the Seniors Emergency Dental Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide certain emergency dental services to eligible low-income seniors without any corresponding copayments, deductibles or cost sharing required.
HB 3926: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to create the Call Your Mom Program.
SB 668: Expands tuition benefits available to disabled veterans to permit veterans who are Oregon residents and are 80 percent or more disabled, and the spouse and child of disabled veterans, to have tuition waived for enrollment in a vocational program or an associate degree, baccalaureate degree or master's degree program at community colleges, public universities and the Oregon Health and Science University.
SB 1039: Creates the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative in the Oregon Health and Science University.
HB 2149: Requires pharmacy services administrative organizations operating in this state to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services and creates rules for licensing requirements.
HB 3169: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
HB 3080: Modifies provisions regarding who can act as a health care representative for an incapacitated person who has not appointed a health care representative or does not have an advance directive.
HB 2992: Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescription eyeglasses and related services to students from low-income families.
SB 691: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to distribute moneys to an entity within the Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
SB 772: Establishes the Indian Health Scholarship Program to provide free tuition and fees for qualifying Indian health profession students in exchange for the student's commitment to work at a tribal service site after graduation.
SB 528: Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
HB 3933: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
SB 1050: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center to expand access to primary, specialty and pharmacy services in and around Bandon, Oregon.
HB 3245: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly.
SB 324: Transfers from the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to the Department of Education certain duties, functions and powers related to teaching, administrative and personnel licensure and investigation, school nurse certification and investigation and public charter school teacher and administrator registration and investigation.
SB 532: Requires dental insurers to follow certain rules for payment and denial of claims.
SB 683: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state.
HB 3129: Establishes the Higher Education Behavioral Health Workforce Expansion Fund.
SB 420: Appropriates moneys to the Department of Early Learning and Care out of the General Fund to expand or sustain Healthy Families Oregon home visiting services.
SB 942: Requires individual and group health benefit plans to cover a child over the age of 26 in certain circumstances.
HB 3212: Creates additional rules and requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and a policy or certificate of health insurance or other contract providing for the reimbursement of the cost of a prescription drug.
SB 1033: Exempts a county or other entity that operates a nurse-family partnership program from paying the nonfederal share of the costs of targeted case management services provided by the program to medical assistance recipients.
HB 2729: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services.
HB 3817: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Veterans' Affairs to study the consumption of ibogaine by certain individuals for the purpose of treating specified disorders.
HB 3193: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish and implement a permanent farmworker disaster relief program.
HB 2029: Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
SB 451: Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of cervical cancer screenings and follow-up examinations.
SB 581: Creates the psychology provider incentive program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide financial incentives to students enrolled in approved doctoral programs in psychology who complete courses that provide cultural competency training.
SB 27: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services for certain programs, reimbursements and incentive payments to support the health care workforce.
SB 142: Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award scholarships to certain individuals enrolled in behavioral health care programs of study.
SB 1001: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Coast Community Health Center, or a successor entity, to provide health care services and apprenticeships.
HB 2203: Requires a behavioral health employer to develop and implement a written safety plan and to provide safety trainings to workers.
HB 2056: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs.
HB 2270: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to increase by 30 percent the reimbursement rates for addiction medicine services.
HB 2239: Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority, a coordinated care organization or a county to contract with a recovery residence to provide housing supports to individuals with substance use disorders only if the recovery residence has been certified by a recovery residence certifying organization.
SB 1188: Directs the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to establish a grant program to increase the availability of community-based guardianship programs and county public guardian and conservators for people with complex health care needs who are experiencing hospital discharge difficulties.
SB 535: Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
SB 529: Directs the Oregon Health Authorityto contract directly withcommunity health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients.
HB 3239: Appropriates moneys to and limits expenditures by the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of State Police for implementation of programs related to criminal records checks, including the Rap Back program.
HB 2222: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to prescribe criteria for mobile integrated health care providers to enroll as providers in the state medical assistance program.
SB 727: Modifies the definition of "health care provider" for purposes of laws concerning job-protected leave.
SB 424: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for an electronic filing system related to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
SB 24: Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and the labor union representing staff employed in health services at the Department of Corrections, to conduct a market study biennially related to the wages and benefits of health services job classifications at the Department of Corrections institutions.
HB 3229: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expedite the process for enrolling behavioral health providers in the medical assistance program and study the feasibility of developing and implementing an automated, online tool for behavioral health provider enrollment applications.
SB 62: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
SB 716: Requires a policy or certificate of health insurance to reimburse medical care provided at an eligible urgent care center in an amount that is 20 percent higher for the same services when the services are provided at an urgent care center that is not eligible.
HB 2365: Adds mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
SB 538: Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs.
HB 3650: Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
HB 2943: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a voluntary pilot program where participating hospitals may screen an eligible individual for hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis when the eligible individual undergoes a blood test or analysis as part of medical care received within an emergency department.
HB 3773: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt by rule qualification criteria for veteran-specific personal health navigators as an additional category of traditional health workers.
HB 3228: Directs the Oregon Cybersecurity Advisory Council to conduct assessments to address the reasons why public bodies in this state are unable to meet cybersecurity insurance coverage requirements.
HB 2423: Establishes the Task Force on Licensed Health Care Services in Oregon Schools.
HB 3916: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
HB 2597: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse dental care organizations for dental services provided to medical assistance recipients at a rate no less than 59.8 percent of the average rate paid by insurers nationwide.
HB 2206: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene a work group to study adult residential mental health services provided by facilities to medical assistance recipients enrolled in coordinated care organizations and the feasibility of transferring the financial risk and administration of those services from the authority to coordinated care organizations.
HB 2210: Establishes the Task Force on Provider Credentialing to make recommendations for expanding and improving a provider credentialing database maintained by the Oregon Health Authority.
HB 2506: Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority, to develop statewide policies and practices to support the availability of medications for opioid use disorder in physical health care settings and the transition to care in the community.
HB 3146: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a pilot program to provide low-barrier emergency housing for houseless or unsafely housed individuals on waiting lists for residential substance use disorder treatment or withdrawal management programs.
SB 1162: Requires an individual or entity to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority before the individual or entity may establish a new hospice program or expand or relocate a hospice program into a new service area.
HB 2216: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to assess current fee-for-service billing practices and non-fee-for-service payment pathways for community health workers serving medical assistance recipients to identify improvements for ensuring adequate and sustainable funding.
SB 42: Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority from the General Fund for the Vaccine Access Program.
SB 28: Requires certain health insurers to reimburse the cost of primary care providers in an independent practice at the same rate as primary care providers within a hospital-based or hospital-affiliated system for the same services.
SB 1174: Directs the Health Licensing Office to issue a nutritionist license to a qualified applicant.
SB 609: Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
HB 3788: Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer a program to issue grants to certain hospitals near a tsunami inundation zone to enable the hospitals to store fuel and water for emergency purposes.
HB 2480: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
SB 606: Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom certain stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' compensation claim is compensable as an occupational disease.
HB 2212: Establishes the Task Force on the Prioritized List of Health Services.
SB 695: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to develop and implement a whole-person maternal health model for medical assistance recipients.
HB 3198: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to dedicate staff in the office of the authority that is responsible for tribal affairs to lead the work of addressing the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people.
HB 3554: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a primary care provider loan repayment program to provide loan repayment subsidies to specified primary care providers.
HB 2215: Specifies the process the Oregon Health Authority must follow in determining a global budget for a coordinated care organization.
SB 56: Requires the state medical assistance program and health insurance policies and certificates to cover computerized tomography coronary calcium score scans for individuals 40 years of age or older.
HB 3221: Prohibits a person or government entity that is not registered with the Oregon Health Authority from using a business or trade name with the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" or from holding itself out using the terms "urgent" or "urgent care" in any external sign or advertisement.
HB 4155: Requires certain health insurers to cover fertility services and treatments.
HB 4048: Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
SB 284: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care.
SB 1197: Requires respite care services to be provided through the state medical assistance program to provide relief to children or youth under the age of 26 who have complex behavioral health needs or an intellectual or developmental disability and to the caregivers of such children or youth.
HB 2028: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020).
SB 140: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to increase reimbursement rates for inpatient psychiatric services provided by hospitals to medical assistance recipients.
SB 1583: Establishes the Behavioral Health and Deflection Committee within the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
SB 622: Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
SB 1206: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study funding to improve access to health care.
HB 2057: Prohibits insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug.
SB 943: Changes the definitions of "audiologist" and "practice of audiology."
HB 3423: Directs an insurer to consider only specified information in determining rates for a motor vehicle liability insurance policy.
HB 2538: Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.
HB 3089: Defines "wildfire risk" for the purpose of determining certain obligations of insurers related to homeowner insurance.
SB 249: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health treatment.
SB 533: Creates a civil penalty for drug manufacturers that interfere directly or indirectly with certain entities acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
SB 1529: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care.
SB 1554: Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
SB 1000: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay.
HB 2011: Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
SJR 28: Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish a fundamental right to a clean, safe and healthy environment. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election held throughout this state.
SB 468: Provides that a noncompetition agreement is void and unenforceable if entered into with an employee who is a health professional.
SB 782: Increases the minimum amount of grant funds that a county may receive to fund a behavioral health deflection program.
HB 3470: Requires the Secretary of State to verify information provided to the secretary by the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority regarding voter registration.
HB 2577: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program to provide telehealth services to students in schools and determine the extent to which the pilot program increases student access to health care services.
HB 2224: Modifies the membership of the metrics and scoring subcommittee of the Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee to include a member with expertise in public health or population health data.
SB 448: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study medication-induced movement disorders and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public health and health care no later than December 31, 2025.
HB 3421: Requires certain policies and certificates of health insurance and medical assistance managed plans to cover biomarker testing with certain rules and requirements.
HB 3142: Exempts employers of noncitizens in agricultural labor who are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits from liability for contributions related to that labor.
HB 2676: Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
HB 3234: Authorizes the Attorney General, at the Attorney General's own initiative, but in consultation and cooperation with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to investigate and bring an action against a health insurer or affiliate of a health insurer in a court of this state to enforce a violation of the antitrust laws of this state, to obtain damages, a civil penalty or restitution, and to enjoin an act or practice that constitutes a monopoly, a business combination in restraint of trade or commerce or a substantial reduction or elimination of competition or competitors within a region or market of this state, or that otherwise constitutes an unlawful trade practice.
HB 3923: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to approve the transfer of 500 or more members of a coordinated care organization or dental care organization if the transfer meets specified conditions, unless the transfer diminishes patient care.
SB 778: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to provide reimbursement for air ambulance services provided to medical assistance recipients at rates in accordance with the national Ambulance Inflation Factor.
HB 2549: Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
HB 3092: Requires the Oregon Educators' Benefit Board to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the cost of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
HB 3631: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a thriving youth pilot program to provide substance use prevention education through comprehensive out-of-school programming and access to specialized mental or behavioral health services to youth in 20 counties in this state.
HB 2023: Establishes certain health insurance coverage for applied behavior analysis therapy for certain intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses with the same requirements for coverage as autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.
HB 3086: Requires the Public Employees' Benefit Board to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the cost of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
SB 161: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
SB 1: Allows for the provision of epinephrine in schools by methods other than injections.
HB 2204: Adds podiatric physicians and surgeons to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
HB 3799: Creates a method by which a health care practitioner may offer to treat a patient who has a terminal disease or severe chronic disease with an investigational product not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
HB 2959: Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
HB 2792: Requires a hospital to report the amount the hospital spends for individuals to replace employees involved in a strike or lockout.
HB 2252: Requires a person that intends to register to do business in this state as a pharmacy benefit manager to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that the person is not owned or operated by an insurer or an affiliate of an insurer.
HB 2318: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to review studies on temperature excursions during the transit of mail order drugs.
SB 1195: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure residential treatment homes.
SB 376: Defines "rural" for purposes of the rural health care provider incentive program.
HB 2917: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690.
HB 3790: Directs the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to issue a cannabis health care technician certification to a qualified individual.
HB 2317: Requires the governing body of a coordinated care organization to include at least one representative of a federally qualified health center and at least one senior public health official.
HB 2253: Requires pharmacy benefit managers to act as fiduciaries to enrollees when negotiating drug prices and tells the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules explaining the fiduciary duty requirements and to establish a complaint process for reporting breaches of fiduciary duty.
SB 61: Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements paid on claims in the medical assistance program if the provider can verify that the patient visit occurred or the service or item was provided.
SB 1134: Creates an Oregon personal income tax subtraction for premiums paid for medical, dental or vision insurance coverage for a child dependent of the taxpayer.
HB 2041: Requires insurers to reimburse mental health professionals at the same rate as physicians and other mental health professionals for the same services.
SB 1030: Requires a residential care facility, including a facility with a memory care endorsement and an assisted living facility, to make available to residents at least one on-site vaccine clinic per year.
HB 3468: Prohibits a county clerk from using certain information provided by the Department of Transportation or the Oregon Health Authority to update any registration information for an elector who is already registered to vote.
HJM 6: Urges Congress to ensure strong annual federal funding for the National Institutes of Health and to increase investment in cutting-edge medical research through grants from the NIH to research institutions.
HB 2536: Prohibits health benefit plans from requiring step therapy prior to covering a prescription drug for the treatment of metastatic cancer and associated conditions.
HB 3225: Specifies qualifications for a physician who is among the majority of the shareholders or directors of a professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine.
SB 388: Requires the Oregon Health Policy Board to produce and provide to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health by December 31, 2026, a comprehensive report regarding the success in achieving the aims of the Oregon Integrated and Coordinated Health Care Delivery System.
SB 1073: Establishes the Family Home Health Aide Program in the Oregon Health Authority for the purpose of certifying family caregivers as family home health aides to provide qualified home health services to eligible relatives in the state medical assistance program.
HB 3324: Provides that a health care facility is not a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of a product for purposes of a product liability civil action if the health care facility was not involved in the design or manufacture of the product.
SB 879: Modifies procedure for rebutting presumption of inability to pay child support when an obligor earns wages from work performed while the obligor is a patient at the state hospital or incarcerated.
HB 3479: Requires commercial operators of unmanned aircraft systems to maintain liability insurance.
HB 2794: Directs a health care facility to establish and maintain procedures that a staff member may use to submit to the health care facility a complaint regarding a medical supply or equipment that the staff member believes in good faith is faulty or dangerous.
HB 3491: Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 3938: Prohibits residential landlords from considering the credit score of an applicant who demonstrates eligibility for medical assistance under the Oregon Health Plan.
HB 3760: Allows the Health Licensing Office to issue to a qualified applicant a license to practice art therapy as a provisional licensed art therapist.
HB 2209: Establishes new criteria and a new process for proposed amendments to contracts entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations.
SB 1558: Requires a vote to adopt a nurse staffing plan by a hospital nurse staffing committee to be documented in the staffing plan.
SB 1559: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care.
SB 1531: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the feasibility of funding emergency medical services through a universal health care model.
HB 4038: Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority from taking enforcement actions against providers or payers under the Health Care Cost Growth Target program before January 1, 2036.
HB 4087: Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
HB 4110: Allows an attending physician to provide ibogaine to a patient for the patient's consumption to treat certain disorders.
HB 4074: Directs a hospital to implement a hospital-wide nurse staffing plan that has been developed and adopted by the hospital nurse staffing committee or, if the committee has not adopted a plan, a hospital-wide nurse staffing plan that meets the statutory requirements.
HB 4054: Requires certain health insurers offering a health benefit plan in this state that provide utilization review or have utilization review provided on their behalf to notify a health care provider each time the insurer uses artificial intelligence or other automated technology to automatically downcode a claim for reimbursement submitted by the provider.
HB 4003: Removes provisions relating to the use of the prioritized list of health services in the state medical assistance program.
HB 3955: Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a program to provide matching funds for research at Oregon Health and Science University.
HB 3591: Requires a group or individual health benefit plan, policy or contract, including plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board or the Oregon Educators Benefit Board, to reimburse out-of-network providers the same as in-network providers for pediatric care and prohibits additional out-of-pocket costs for pediatric care.
HB 3434: Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
SB 340: Prohibits an insurer from canceling fire insurance policies, or raising policy premiums by more than three percent, if an insured's property is located within the wildland-urban interface or the insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
HB 2919: Requires a hospital to report on an annual basis to the Oregon Health Authority the percentage of medical assistance program payments and the amount of other public funds that were invested in stocks.
HB 3956: Requires a syringe service program to register with the local public health authority responsible for the jurisdiction in which the syringe service program operates.
SB 591: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the long term care facility assessment.
SB 508: Prohibits insurers from using any device or technology that records, discloses or allows access to information that tracks or reveals the geographic location of an insured during any time in which the insured is occupying or operating a motor vehicle that the motor vehicle liability insurance policy covers.
SB 701: Directs the Department of Education to establish a pilot project to provide telehealth services in K-12 schools in the 2025-2026 school year.
SB 36: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study patient billing.
SB 72: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study property insurance.
HB 2937: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a state public health laboratory, administer a newborn bloodspot screening program and implement additional programs related to newborn bloodspot screening.
SB 30: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
SB 1132: Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to transfer the proceeds of certain taxes, fees, fines, penalties and other monetary obligations the director imposes upon out-of-state insurers and insurance producers to the State Forestry Department for deposit into the State Forestry Department Account.
HB 2014: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
SB 384: Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion.
HB 2993: Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.
SB 285: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance plans.
HB 3411: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 3557: Requires a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offered or provided by the hospital.
HB 2666: Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in the custody of the county sheriff pending trial.
SB 1031: Requires a physician who prescribes drugs for a chemical abortion to provide certain information to a person to whom such drugs are prescribed.
SB 882: Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
HB 2219: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations, to the extent permitted by federal law, to establish reimbursement rates for labor and delivery services provided by hospitals to medical assistance recipients that are no less than the costs to provide the services.
SB 367: Prohibits the Governor or a state officer or agency from requiring a lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during a declared state of emergency or a declared state of public health emergency.
HB 3516: Requires the Attorney General to study matters relating to state laws affecting safety and health in places of employment.
SB 918: Requires course instruction provided as part of a health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
SB 542: Makes certain findings related to gluten.
HB 2001: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care.
HB 3490: Removes the limits on the duration of medical services, the number of visits and the areas of practice for chiropractic physicians serving as attending physicians in workers' compensation claims.
HB 2796: Requires a hospital or hospital system in this state to make publicly available certain financial data.
HB 2920: Requires a hospital to report to the Oregon Health Authority and make publicly available securities data and disclosures that the hospital provides to the federal Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.
HB 2998: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.
HB 3330: Provides protections for a person who refuses to participate in a procedure related to abortion, physician-assisted suicide or gender-affirming treatment if the refusal is based on a person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
HB 3248: Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
HB 3601: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health.
HB 3764: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the funding formula under Ballot Measure 110 (2020).
HB 2699: Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation in this state.
HB 3831: Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study public health impacts of land use and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
SB 629: Requires the Oregon Medical Board to consider a reasonable person standard in determining what constitutes unprofessional conduct.
HB 2220: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals.
HB 2353: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health services and supports for older adults and individuals with disabilities.
SB 1012: Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
SB 441: Removes the requirements for notification of substitution and records retention for prescribed biological products.
HB 3535: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
HB 3282: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
HB 2918: Requires a hospital to report on a quarterly basis to the Oregon Health Authority its daily cash on hand.
HB 2701: Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at a 25 percent mortality rate.
SB 884: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
SB 37: Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.
HB 2429: Modifies provisions authorizing unemancipated minors to consent to health care services without parental consent.
SB 447: Requires a pharmacy to notify a person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that the drug manufacturer may offer a patient assistance program.
SB 1150: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance.
HB 2750: Establishes the Task Force on Improving Safety in Health Care Settings and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than December 15, 2026.
HB 2048: Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority from issuing a license to a food cart that does not have a licensed commissary as a base of operation.
HB 3960: Allows the Oregon Health Authority to approve as cultural competency continuing education opportunities relating to suicide prevention.
HB 2268: Requires a person that advertises, solicits, markets, sells or offers a health care cost sharing arrangement in this state or enters into a health care cost sharing arrangement with a resident must register with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
HB 2818: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the coordinated care organization quality incentive program administered by the authority.
SB 287: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study medical assistance.
HB 3692: Repeals the requirement that certain health insurers and medical assistance programs provide health care benefits for gender-affirming health care services.
HB 2243: Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 3812: Requires school districts to develop, implement and annually update a health services plan for the students of the school district.
HB 2568: Establishes two new subaccounts in the Consumer and Business Services Fund: the Consumer Financial Education Account and the Consumer Insurance Education Account.
HB 2607: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance.
HB 2744: Prohibits insurers that issue a policy of insurance that provides coverage or benefits to an insured for veterinary services for the insured's pet from excluding, limiting or reducing the coverage or benefits on the basis of a preexisting condition that affects the pet's health or physical condition.
HB 3430: Establishes an income tax credit for independent physicians.
HB 3834: Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish a program to provide reinsurance against the risk of economic loss for insurers that issue policies of insurance against damage or loss caused by wildlife.
HB 2367: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine.
SB 297: Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for right of way health and safety.
HB 2798: Requires a hospital licensed or hospital system operating in this state to make publicly available its expenses from the preceding year.
SB 966: Enacts the interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
HB 2893: Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor disputes with an employer that employs more than 100 employees in an industry involving hazardous materials.
SB 41: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study substance use disorder.
HB 2148: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a fee-for-service rate for all medical assistance recipients at a certain rate for certain services.
HB 3676: Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in coordination with the Department of Environmental Quality, to establish a program to provide grants to repair or replace certain community drinking water and wastewater facilities.
HB 2936: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study marketplace affordability.
SB 445: Authorizes the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to form or acquire subsidiaries to perform any function the corporation may delegate under law.
HB 2885: Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement the creation of an interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency.
SB 286: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharge challenges.
SB 1106: Requires the court in a parenting time proceeding to order that the child who is the subject of the proceeding receive mental health therapy if the child is at least 5 years old but less than 18 years old.
SB 885: Directs the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to establish a division or subsidiary for the purpose of issuing policies of fire insurance and property insurance against the peril of wildfire.
SB 666: Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
SB 607: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state.
SB 628: Requires a physician or physician associate to attempt to obtain a patient's informed consent for dismissal to seek emergency medical treatment or for transfer of care to another physician or physician associate.
SB 672: Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
HB 3675: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study staffing plans for hospitals.
SB 1214: Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse certain rural hospitals at rates no less than 150 percent of the rates paid as of the effective date of the Act.
HB 3752: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study reimbursement rates in the state's medical assistance program.
HB 2505: Directs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study the Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection Program.
HB 3494: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.
SB 377: Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
SB 1026: Prohibits the provision of abortion services to a nonresident, unmarried person under 18 years of age without parental consent.
SB 383: Prohibits public bodies and private entities from requiring a person to receive an experimental medical intervention or vaccination or to possess an immunity passport, immunity pass or other evidence certifying a vaccination or immunity status.
HB 2213: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a minimum medical loss ratio for coordinated care organizations at 85 percent.
SB 35: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study medical assistance.
SB 449: Establishes the Task Force on Health Care Training Partnerships and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than December 15, 2026.
SB 23: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 3319: Permits the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to evaluate the risk the corporation has insured for employers during the past three years and reduce the premium the corporation charges the employer to reflect any reductions or mitigations in risk that result from an agreement between the employer and the corporation.
HB 2314: Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the State Department of Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding for the administration and enforcement of the safety and health standards for agricultural labor housing.
SB 67: Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to the family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 2313: Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a health care worker while the worker is acting in the course of official duty.
HB 2500: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study changes to laws regarding opioid use disorder medication.
HB 2022: Excludes facilities providing rehabilitation services to individuals with brain injuries or spinal cord injuries from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
HB 3574: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the effectiveness of current laws and rules governing the certificate of need process in this state.
HB 3748: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a program for the purpose of providing to credentialing organizations access to information that is necessary to credential or recredential health care practitioners.
SB 38: Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs.
HB 3845: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study Medicaid supplemental reimbursement for ground emergency medical transportation services.
HB 3621: Prohibits abortions unless a health care provider first performs an ultrasound on the pregnant person, except in the case of a medical emergency.
SB 791: Requires commercial operators of unmanned aircraft systems to maintain liability insurance.
HB 2198: Restores former provisions restricting the payment of unemployment insurance benefits to certain nonprofessional educational workers that were repealed by enrolled Senate Bill 489 (2023).
HB 3735: Directs the Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office to hire permanent staff to convene affinity group task forces to develop recommendations on addressing health inequities.
HB 3964: Establishes a voluntary mediation and arbitration process that certain health insurers and providers may participate in if the insurer and provider are unable to reach an agreement during a contract renewal negotiation.
SB 540: Requires a drug manufacturer or wholesaler to state on the label of an orally administered drug any ingredients derived from gluten-containing grains.
SB 850: Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
HB 2040: Establishes a complaint process for health care providers to submit complaints to the Department of Consumer and Business Services or the Oregon Health Authority regarding health insurers or coordinated care organizations.
SB 154: Requires the Universal Health Plan Governance Board to study universal health care.
SB 294: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study emergency departments.
HB 2372: Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion.
HB 2381: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer the Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
SB 245: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance.
HB 3725: Modifies requirements for certain claims processes for health care providers and insurers.
HB 2358: Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to determine the appropriate number of students on a workload for a school-based health practitioner who is a speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist or physical therapist.
SB 281: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 3511: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to award grants to community-based organizations to conduct a public health campaign on the negative health effects of using betel nuts.
SB 8: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 3058: Directs a court to make a finding on dangerousness when committing a person who lacks fitness to proceed to a state mental hospital.
HB 2021: Modifies the certificate of need process to allow only applicants to challenge proposed decisions of the Oregon Health Authority.
SB 756: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse the cost of clinically validated blood pressure cuffs prescribed to medical assistance recipients.
HB 3078: Directs the Oregon Drinking Water Services of the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program for training drinking water system operators.
HB 3723: Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
SB 506: Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
HB 2241: Requires the Employment Department to study unemployment insurance in Oregon.
HB 2751: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a two-year demonstration project in two counties to test whether expanding the scope of compensable services provided by community health workers can improve outcomes for low-income families and children at risk of entering the foster care system.
HB 2221: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance.
HJM 7: Urges Congress to pass legislation recognizing that the full spectrum of reproductive health care is a fundamental right of all women.
HB 3893: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care.
HB 3813: Authorizes the Department of Education to award grants to school districts and education service districts for the purpose of developing, implementing and annually updating a health services plan.
SB 988: Permits a child's parent or guardian to admit the child, with or without the child's consent, to an inpatient treatment facility or program licensed by the Oregon Health Authority or the Department of Human Services for certain mental, emotional or behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment.
SB 897: Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
SB 1149: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study insurance for rural electric cooperatives.
HB 2552: Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
SB 866: Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving the social emotional health of students and staff in public schools.
HB 2793: Requires a hospital to report on the amount of money the hospital spends on strategies to discourage, avoid or prevent labor organizing.
SB 288: Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.
HB 2193: Prohibits a person from engaging in or refusing to engage in an economic relationship with a resident of this state, or allowing or barring the resident from entry into a place of public accommodation, on the basis of or with reference to any score, rating, appraisal, assessment or other evaluation of the resident's social standing or reputation, adherence to or expression of a religious, moral or political belief or doctrine, compliance with a public health mandate or exercise of a constitutionally protected right, including the right to free expression or freedom of association or assembly.
SB 290: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study public health.
HB 2562: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to collect a series of data related to the underwriting practices and criteria involved in issuing motor vehicle liability insurance policies in this state.
SB 899: Prohibits physicians from performing irreversible gender reassignment surgery on a minor.
HB 2229: Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five years.
HB 2042: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and the delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
HB 2939: Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
HB 2487: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.
SB 309: Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education.
SB 1142: Requires the Employment Department to study issues related to leave benefits under the family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 3223: Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs.
HB 2207: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt standards for external quality reviews of coordinated care organizations that are aligned with standards published by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
HB 3017: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the risks to human health of chemicals in menstrual, intimate care and incontinence products.
SB 40: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study public health.
HB 2225: Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
SB 883: Prohibits a state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
HB 3331: Provides that a percentage of dividends paid by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation are redirected to a fund for catastrophic disaster preparedness.
HB 2218: Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse hospitals for inpatient psychiatric services provided to medical assistance recipients at rates no less than the reimbursement rates for inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation provided by the Oregon State Hospital.
SB 22: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care.
HB 2103: Directs the State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to classify xylazine as a Schedule IV controlled substance.
HB 2188: Repeals provisions of the paid family and medical leave insurance program.
HB 2027: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health.
HB 3085: Establishes the Emergency Behavioral Health Services for Children program in the Oregon Health Authority to promote timely delivery of behavioral health services to children who present to hospital emergency departments in behavioral health crises.
HB 3338: Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
HB 3176: Requires home health agencies and home hospice programs to establish home health and home hospice staffing committees to develop staffing plans.
SB 220: Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
HB 3288: Requires the Director of the Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over an extended period.
SB 421: Requires the System of Care Advisory Council to study the youth behavioral health workforce.
SB 318: Provides that certain substitute teachers are eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
HB 3607: Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state.
SB 39: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study primary care in Oregon.
SB 595: Requires multiyear contracts entered into between the Department of Human Services and private entities for the provision of health or social services to include annual cost of living adjustments.
HB 3889: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study mental health.
HB 3561: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital financial assistance.
HB 3517: Requires a policy or certificate of health insurance or health care services contract offered by a health care service contractor in this state, state medical assistance and health benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to cover certain treatments for an obesity diagnosis with certain requirements.
HB 2382: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
SB 25: Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.
HB 2653: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study options to maximize federal funding for the ground emergency medical transport program.
HB 2246: Requires the Employment Department to study the implementation of unemployment insurance law in Oregon.
HB 2585: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a process to receive and review scope of practice requests for specified health care professions.
SB 282: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study environmental health.
SB 173: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 2026: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
SB 29: Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance plans.
HB 3866: Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the impacts of wildfire and smoke on the recreation and fitness industries, including the cost of property insurance, and on the ability of Oregonians to engage in recreation and fitness activities.
HB 3640: Requires that rules adopted by the Department of Consumer and Business Services with respect to the registration of farmworker camps be consistent with federal regulations governing farmworker housing health and safety standards.
HB 3891: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
HB 2790: Clarifies the meaning of "mental health condition" for purposes of sick leave provisions to include leave taken to restore the employee or the employee's family member to a state of mental well-being.
HB 3374: Authorizes the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to form or acquire subsidiaries to perform any function the corporation may delegate under law.
SB 935: Extends the dates by which the Joint Task Force on Regional Behavioral Health Accountability must provide draft recommendations and submit a final report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health.
SB 183: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.
HB 3379: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study Medicaid supplemental reimbursement for ground emergency medical transportation services.
HB 3473: Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
HB 3673: Reduces to 90 days the time under which a city or county must decide a land use application for housing or mental health or addiction facilities.
HB 3547: Exempts institutions for mental diseases from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
HJM 2: Urges Congress to change the funding of veterans' health care from a discretionary entitlement to a permanent and direct entitlement.
HB 2994: Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a medical science liaison position to develop recommendations for advancing health equity and justice.
SB 26: Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health.
HB 2431: Repeals the transfer of certain electronic records from the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State for purposes of voter registration.
HB 2989: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to pay out of the Law Enforcement Medical Liability Account any copayment or other cost-sharing amounts owed by an individual for the cost of medical services, or the entire cost of the medical services if an individual is a medical assistance recipient or uninsured, for injuries related to law enforcement activity.
SB 936: Makes a public health infrastructure facility an allowed use on any zone if the Oregon Health Authority, Department of Environmental Quality or United States Environmental Protection Agency has established a deadline for the development of the facility.
HB 3985: Modifies the minimum standards for staffing plans for direct care registered nurses in an emergency department.
SB 182: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study civil commitment criteria.
SB 291: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study oral health.
SB 175: Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the medical use of marijuana.
HB 2238: Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five years.
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