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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 873
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Governor Tina Kotek for Oregon Medical Board)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act ends an Oregon Medical Board license that let doctors from other states work
in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Repeals a license issued by the Oregon Medical Board to certain physicians licensed to practice
in other jurisdictions.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to physician qualifications for special licenses; amending ORS 677.100; repealing ORS
677.120; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 677.100 is amended to read:
677.100. (1) An applicant for a license to practice medicine in this state, except as otherwise
provided in subsection (2) of this section, must possess the following qualifications:
(a) Have attended and graduated from a school of medicine.
(b) Have satisfactorily completed the following post-graduate requirement:
(A) Satisfactory completion of an approved rotating internship if a graduate of an approved
school of medicine;
(B) One year of training in an approved program if a graduate of an approved school of medi-
cine;or
(C) Three years of training in an approved program if a graduate of an unapproved school of
medicine.
(c) Have complied with each rule of the Oregon Medical Board which applies to all similar ap-
plicants for a license to practice medicine in this state.
(d) Have provided evidence sufficient to prove to the satisfaction of the board that the applicant
is of good moral character. For purposes of this section, the lack of good moral character may be
established by reference to acts or conduct that reflect moral turpitude or to acts or conduct which
would cause a reasonable person to have substantial doubts about the individual’s honesty, fairness
and respect for the rights of others and for the laws of the state and the nation. The acts or conduct
in question must be rationally connected to the applicant’s fitness to practice medicine.
(2) If an applicant establishes that the applicant is of good moral character and has qualifica-
tions which the board determines are the equivalent of the qualifications required by subsection
(1)(a) to (c) of this section, the applicant satisfies the requirements of subsection (1) of this section.
(3) An applicant for a license to practice medicine must make written application to the board
showing compliance with this section, ORS 677.110[, 677.120] and the rules of the board, and con-
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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taining such further information as the rules of the board may require.
SECTION 2. ORS 677.120 is repealed.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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