l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 384

Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's 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 tells doctors to provide a child born alive with a level of care based on the child's gestational age, even if the child was born after an attempt to abort the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. Requires a health care practitioner to ensure that a child born alive is transported to a hospital. Creates a crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows a specified person to bring a civil action for damages and equitable relief against a health care practitioner for failure to exercise the proper degree of care. Directs the court to award attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff. Allows the court to order identity or personally identifiable information of plaintiff protected from disclosure. Defines "individual" for purposes of statute laws of this state to include an infant born alive.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

3 co-sponsors

Daniel Bonham, Suzanne Weber, Noah Robinson

In the House of Representatives

    2 co-sponsors

    Bobby Levy, E. Werner Reschke

    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 SenateJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

    Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

    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 Senate Jan 13 – Jun 27

    1. Jan 13Introduced
    2. Jan 17Sent to Health Care
    3. Jun 27Died when the session ended
    All 3 actions, as published
    1. Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
    2. Jan 17Referred to Health Care.Senate
    3. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate