HB2220 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals.

Digest: Makes OHA do a study on hospitals and submit a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes OHA do a study on hospitals and submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals.
Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes OHA do a study on hospitals and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to hospitals.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2220
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Behavioral Health and Health Care for Representative Rob Nosse)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Makes OHA do a study on hospitals and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals. Directs the authority to submit
findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than
September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to hospitals.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall study hospitals. The authority shall
submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations
for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care
no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3842