l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3176

Requires home health agencies and home hospice programs to establish home health and home hospice staffing committees to develop staffing plans.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: The Act requires certain home health care entities to adopt staffing plans. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires home health agencies and home hospice programs to establish home health and home hospice staffing committees to develop staffing plans. Imposes penalties for certain violations. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to post the staffing plans to the authority's website and establish an online portal for filing complaints regarding violations. Prescribes a complaint process. Adds enforcement tools for the authority to enforce the home health and home hospice staffing requirements. Permits employees or exclusive representatives of employees of home health agencies and home hospice programs to seek enforcement by the Bureau of Labor and Industries of rules adopted by the bureau regarding meal periods and rest periods. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

2 co-sponsors

Mark Gamba, Dacia Grayber

In the Senate

    2 co-sponsors

    Deb Patterson, Khanh Pham

    Its course

    January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action3 actions on 3 days

    In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

    Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

    Behavioral Health and Health CareJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 days

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27

    1. Introduced
    2. Sent to Behavioral Health and Health Care
    3. Died when the session ended
    All 3 actions, as published