l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 529

Directs the Oregon Health Authorityto contract directly withcommunity health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate'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 to laws about certain health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Directs the Oregon Health Authority [<i>and coordinated care organizations</i>] to contract directly with [<i>traditional health workers,</i>] community health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients. Directs the authority to establish comprehensive billing codes for traditional health workers and community health registered nurses. Directs the authority to modify the requirements for the supervision of traditional health workers. Directs the authority to adopt requirements for the regulation of community health registered nurses.<b> Directs a coordinated care organization to inform community health registered nurses and community-based organizations that provide health care services through traditional health workers or community health registered nurses about the process for requesting to contract with the coordinated care organization as an in-network provider and directs a coordinated care organization to respond to a request to contract within 90 days.</b> Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the SenateJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Health CareJan 17 to Mar 3173 days

Ways and MeansMar 31 to Jun 27 · stopped88 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Mar 31

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. Mar 6Heard in Health Care
  4. Mar 25Heard in Health Care
  5. Mar 31Health 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. Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Jan 17Referred to Health Care, then Ways and Means.Senate
  3. Mar 6Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Mar 25Work Session held.Senate
  5. Mar 31Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.)Senate
  6. Mar 31Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.Senate
  7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate