l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 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.

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: This Act tells some health insurers, OHP, PEBB and OEBB to cover some treatments for the chronic disease of obesity. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). 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.

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

Its course

February 6 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 RepresentativesFeb 6 to Jun 27 · stopped141 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 6 to Feb 71 day

Behavioral Health and Health CareFeb 7 to Jun 27 · stopped140 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 Feb 6 – Jun 27

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