Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2202
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study certain chapters of statutes. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study redundancies in the provisions of ORS chapters 414 and 430. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2203
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act makes changes to laws to improve the safety of workers in certain mental health and SUD treatment settings. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). [Digest: The Act tells OHA to study the safety of certain health care workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9).] [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the safety of behavioral health workers. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.] [Sunsets on January 2, 2027.] Requires a behavioral health employer to develop and implement a written safety plan and to provide safety trainings to workers. Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to behavioral health employers to conduct a risk assessment and to enhance the structural safety of work settings. Entitles an employee of a behavioral health employer to be reinstated with back pay if the employer unlawfully retaliates against the employee. Directs the authority, the Department of Consumer and Business Services, the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the Department of Human Services to conduct studies and submit reports to the Legislative Assembly. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2204
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act lets more health care providers get the rural provider income tax credit. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Adds podiatric physicians and surgeons to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers. Removes the requirement of hospital consulting privileges applicable to an optometrist claiming the credit. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2205
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/14/25
Engrossed
4/21/25
Refer
4/21/25
Report Pass
5/21/25
Enrolled
6/4/25
The Act makes changes to laws about contracts between OHA and CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). [Digest: The Act changes the contract term to 10 years for contracts between OHA and CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).] [Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years. Directs the authority to review a coordinated care organization's performance after the initial five years of a contract term.] 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.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2206
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act tells OHA to create a work group related to CCO members who need residential mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). 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 [and develop a plan for] transferring [responsibility] the financial risk and administration of those services from the authority to coordinated care organizations [to administer adult residential mental health service benefits and assume the financial risk of administering those benefits]. Directs, contingent on the results of the study, the work group to develop a plan for such transfers. Specifies the duties and membership of the work group. Requires the authority to report final recommendations of the work group to the Legislative Assembly no later than December 15, 2028. Sunsets January 2, 2029. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2207
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to adopt standards for certain reviews of CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). 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. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2208
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
The Act makes changes to CCO health improvement plans. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). [Requires a community health improvement plan to serve as the primary regional planning document for all health services and operations and incorporate various other planning documents.] 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. Requires local public health authorities, community mental health programs and coordinated care organizations to include in a community health improvement plan any behavioral health plans required by law or by the Oregon Health Authority. Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to align the community health improvement plan requirements with other planning or reporting requirements.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2209
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes changes to the process of amending a contract between OHA and a CCO. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Establishes new criteria and a new process for proposed amendments to contracts entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2210
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act creates a task force on provider credentialing. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). [Digest: The Act makes changes to a database maintained by OHA. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7).] [Expands a provider credentialing database maintained by the Oregon Health Authority to include audit or other compliance materials that an organizational provider must submit to a coordinated care organization.] Establishes the Task Force on Provider Credentialing to make recommendations for expanding and improving [the] a provider credentialing database maintained by the Oregon Health Authority. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2211
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/9/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Report Pass
5/16/25
Enrolled
5/21/25
The Act makes changes to laws about certain dental care providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Defines a "dental subcontractor." Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt requirements for a dental subcontractor that contracts with a coordinated care organization. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2212
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
The Act creates the Task Force on the Prioritized List of Health Services. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Establishes the Task Force on the Prioritized List of Health Services. Directs the task force to study the potential impacts, and ways to limit the potential impacts, of [eliminating] phasing out the use of the prioritized list of health services and report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than [March 15] February 1, 2026. Sunsets the task force on January 2, [2028] 2027. Declares an emergency, effective [July 1, 2025] on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2213
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHA to establish a medical loss ratio for CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a minimum medical loss ratio for coordinated care organizations at 85 percent. Prohibits the authority from applying the minimum medical loss ratio to revenue or expenditures of prepaid managed care health services organizations that provide dental care to members of a coordinated care organization.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2214
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes changes to the financial requirements for CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies the minimum financial requirements for coordinated care organizations.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2215
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act changes the process for adopting global budgets for CCOs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). [Establishes a process for determining global budgets for coordinated care organizations that is similar to the rate review process for insurers.] Specifies the process the Oregon Health Authority must follow in determining a global budget for a coordinated care organization. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon House Bill HB2216
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
The Act tells OHA to study ways to improve how community health workers are paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). 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. Directs the authority to provide technical assistance to coordinated care organizations, organizations that serve medical assistance recipients who are not enrolled in a coordinated care organization and community health worker organizations in establishing billing structures or alternative payment pathways for community health worker services. Sunsets January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.