l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3554

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a primary care provider loan repayment program to provide loan repayment subsidies to specified primary care providers.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means 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 makes changes intended to help support health care providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a primary care provider loan repayment program to provide loan repayment subsidies to specified primary care providers. Defines "primary care provider." Directs the authority to establish a primary care incentive program to provide financial incentives to eligible primary care practices. Defines "primary care practice." Directs the authority to provide low-interest loans to eligible primary care practices to implement or upgrade interoperative electronic health records systems. Directs the authority, in collaboration with the Department of Consumer and Business Services, to [<i>establish</i>] <b>develop and implement</b> a centralized online portal for reporting data on health outcome and quality measures. <b>Directs the authority and the department to convene a task force to assist in the development and implementation of the portal.</b> Requires the authority and the department to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly on [<i>the implementation of</i>] <b>their progress in developing and implementing</b> the portal. Directs the authority to study past barriers to and potential solutions for establishing a centralized system for health care practitioner credentialing information and report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly on the authority's findings and recommendations. <b>Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.</b>

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

4 co-sponsors

Lisa Fragala, Jules Walters, Sarah McDonald, Lesly Muñoz

Its course

February 11 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 11 to Jun 27 · stopped136 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 11 to Feb 121 day

Behavioral Health and Health CareFeb 12 to Apr 956 days

Ways and MeansApr 9 to Jun 27 · stopped79 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 9

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 11 – Jun 27

  1. Feb 11Introduced
  2. Feb 12Sent to Behavioral Health and Health Care
  3. Mar 11Heard in Behavioral Health and Health Care
  4. Apr 3Heard in Behavioral Health and Health Care
  5. Apr 9Behavioral Health and Health Care recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Feb 11First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Feb 12Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Mar 11Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Apr 3Work Session held.House of Representatives
  5. Apr 9Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  6. Apr 9Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives