Oregon 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB53
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing and to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing by September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB530
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
The Act makes changes to a law about groups that work on health equity. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB531
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
The Act gives some money to DAS and says that DAS has to give that money to the Oregon Wellness Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to the Oregon Wellness Program for specified purposes. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB532
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/15/25
Refer
4/15/25
Makes dental insurers follow some rules for payment and denial of claims. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires dental insurers to follow certain rules for payment and denial of claims.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB533
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act bans drug makers from taking actions that make it hard for some drug outlets to get certain drugs on behalf of health care providers, deliver the drugs to the providers or dispense the drugs. The Act makes these actions subject to a civil penalty for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). 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. Creates a civil penalty for drug manufactures that require certain entities to submit utilization review data as a condition of acquiring, delivering or dispensing 340B drugs.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB534
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Lets a lender who gives a lump sum as the loan in a reverse mortgage get only that part of the total equity in the house to which the lump sum is equal at the time the lender gives the lump sum. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4) Allows a lender that, in a reverse mortgage, provides a lump sum in exchange for a claim upon the equity of a property to claim as the lender's equity, and receive as proceeds in a sale of the property, not more than the percentage of the total equity in the property to which the lump sum is equivalent on the date the lender provides the lump sum. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB535
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/16/25
Refer
4/16/25
This Act makes some health insurers cover some fertility treatments and exempts some insurers. Tells OHA and DCBS to study access to reproductive treatment and report back. Tells DCBS to make a program to pay for some services for persons with exempt insurers and creates a fund for this program. Changes how DCBS uses some money. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.1). [Digest: The Act makes some health insurance cover some fertility treatments. The Act tells OHA and DCBS to study access to reproductive treatments and report back to the committee on health. The Act makes it an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers. Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study access to fertility and reproductive endocrinology services and report findings to the committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health. Directs the department to administer a program to provide reimbursement for certain fertility services not covered by exempt insurers. Establishes the Market Equity Fund and modifies how certain assessments on certain health benefit plans are utilized. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB536
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Engrossed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Report Pass
5/12/25
Enrolled
5/15/25
Passed
5/28/25
The Act lets two more types of health care practitioners be medical examiners. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Provides that a licensed physician associate or nurse practitioner may be a medical examiner. Includes a licensure requirement for a physician who serves as a medical examiner.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB537
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
5/19/25
Refer
5/19/25
The Act creates new laws for workplace violence prevention in health care settings. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act creates new laws for workplace violence prevention in health care settings. The Act takes effect 91 days following sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).] Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. Requires [subject entities to compile data concerning incidents of workplace violence and submit reports to] the Department of Consumer and Business Services to prepare and submit a consolidated report of workplace violence incidents. Requires certain health care employers and home care settings to take certain actions to protect workers against risks of violence and other safety-related risks. [Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop and administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to eligible entities for workplace violence prevention efforts. Establishes a timeline within which the authority must begin distributing funds to approved grant applicants.] [Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB538
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
The Act requires ODHS to pay parents to provide in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires ODHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from CMS to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.4). 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. Directs the department to seek any federal funding available for attendant care services no later than January 1, 2026. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB539
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
5/23/25
Makes a hospital or health system report to the OHA on facility fees that are charged or billed for certain patient visits. Requires that patients be given a notice on facility fees that may be charged or billed. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). 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. Requires a hospital or the hospital's health system that charges a facility fee for a patient visit to provide a person notice of the facility fee. Requires a billing statement that includes a facility fee to include certain information. Permits a hospital or the hospital's health system to charge, bill or collect a facility fee only for services provided on campus or at a facility that includes an emergency department. Prohibits a hospital or the hospital's health system from charging, billing or collecting a facility fee for certain services. Punishes an action to collect or an attempt to collect a facility fee that is not permitted under the Act as an unlawful collection practice. Permits the Oregon Health Authority to impose a civil penalty for certain violations of the Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB54
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
This Act makes landlords provide cooling for homes. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires that residential tenants be provided with indoor cooling or cooling spaces for multiunit buildings with 10 units or more. Requires, by January 1, 2036, that all landlords provide indoor cooling. Makes cooling an "essential service" for residential tenants. Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the Housing and Community Services Department provide cooling information for landlords. Sunsets, on January 1, 2036, the requirement that the State Department of Energy provide grants for landlords to provide community cooling spaces.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB540
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that drug labels need to list the ingredients made from gluten-containing grains. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires a drug manufacturer or wholesaler to state on the label of an orally administered drug any ingredients derived from gluten-containing grains. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB541
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/10/25
The Act says that schools have to teach computer science classes to students in all grades. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Requires school district boards to ensure all schools offer computer science education in all grades. Includes computer science in content areas that must be offered in schools. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB542
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act makes findings related to gluten. The Act requires foods with gluten to have labels. The Act says when a food can be labeled as gluten free. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.5). Makes certain findings related to gluten. Requires a food product that contains gluten or an ingredient from a gluten-containing grain to bear certain labeling. Prohibits a food product from being labeled as gluten free unless certain criteria are met. Authorizes the imposition of civil penalties for a violation.