Committees · 2024 Regular Session
Health Care
Members
As the committee stood at the end of the term. Each name leads to the member's page.
Deb PattersonChair
Democrat · 10th District
Cedric HaydenVice-chair
Republican · 6th District
Republican · 26th District
Democrat · 18th District
Democrat · 25th District
Bills
Bills sent to the committee in the 2024 Regular Session.
Bills sent15
11% of the bills the Senate sent to committees
Reported out80%
12 of 15; 3 stopped in committee
Time in committee9 days
most between 8 and 10 days
Amendments offered0
committee amendments
In every session
Each session over its whole term. The 2026 is so far.
202617 bills
reported 65% · typically 9 days, most 8–17 · 0 amendments · 5 members
2025140 bills
reported 61% · typically 62 days, most 43–83 · 0 amendments · 5 members
202415 bills
reported 80% · typically 9 days, most 8–10 · 0 amendments · 5 members
2023121 bills
reported 59% · typically 54 days, most 31–75 · 0 amendments · 5 members
202212 bills
reported 58% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
2021100 bills
reported 73% · typically 49 days, most 37–72 · 0 amendments · 5 members
202015 bills
reported 73% · typically 8 days, most 8–14 · 0 amendments · 5 members
2019122 bills
reported 66% · typically 46 days, most 28–69 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20188 bills
reported 100% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
2017115 bills
reported 57% · typically 40 days, most 27–58 · 0 amendments · 5 members
201619 bills
reported 63% · typically 8 days, most 4–10 · 0 amendments · 5 members
2015149 bills
reported 70% · typically 45 days, most 28–58 · 0 amendments · 5 members
Bills it was sent
Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2024 Regular Session, newest first.
15 bills
House Bill 4010 · Specifies that flavoring of a prescription drug is not compounding.
Sent February 22, 2024 · Reported out after 8 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 4012 · Prohibits issuers of health benefit plans, health care service contractors or multiple employer welfare arrangements from requiring that drugs that are administered by health care providers in specified settings be dispensed at a certain pharmacy or by a pharmacy that is in the provider's network.
Sent February 22, 2024 · Reported out after 8 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 4130 · Prohibits a shareholder, director or officer of a domestic or foreign professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee or contractor of or otherwise participating in managing both the professional corporation and a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract.
Sent February 22, 2024 · Reported out after 8 days · did not pass the Senate
House Bill 4113 · Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Sent February 21, 2024 · Reported out after 9 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 4003 · Directs the Department of State Police to study the causes of and ways to address the medical examiner shortage, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than October 1, 2024.
Sent February 15, 2024 · Reported out after 8 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 4150 · Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in certain circumstances when the practitioner's patient has a fatal or nonfatal overdose.
Sent February 15, 2024 · Reported out after 11 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1506 · Allows a pharmacist to test and prescribe, dispense and administer treatment for SARS-CoV-2.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 11 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1507 · Appropriates moneys to the Long Term Care Ombudsman out of the General Fund for distribution to the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to provide services to patients with complex needs who are being discharged from hospitals to post-acute care settings.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 9 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1508 · In determining the ranking of a condition-treatment pair on the prioritized list of health services covered by the medical assistance program, prohibits the Health Evidence Review Commission from relying upon a quality of life in general measure or from relying on any research or analyses that rely upon or refer to a quality of life measure, unless specified conditions are met.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 4 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1536 · Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Stopped in committee after 31 days
Senate Bill 1554 · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study access to behavioral health treatment in this state.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Stopped in committee after 31 days
Senate Bill 1565 · Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health needs or very high medical needs.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 10 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1569 · Requires medical assistance reimbursement of cognitive assessment and care planning for recipients who experience the signs or symptoms of cognitive impairment.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Stopped in committee after 31 days
Senate Bill 1578 · Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and maintain an online portal with the functionality to provide online scheduling for health care providers and coordinated care organizations to use to contact health care interpreters directly for purposes of serving Oregon Health Plan members and to process billing for health care interpreter services that were rendered to Oregon Health Plan members.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 10 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1594 · Establishes the Task Force on Improving the Safety of Behavioral Health Workers.
Sent February 5, 2024 · Reported out after 14 days · did not pass the Senate