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HB2221 • 2025

Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance.

Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance.

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 Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance.

Digest: Tells DCBS to study health insurance and report back.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells DCBS to study health insurance and report back.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
  • Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells DCBS to study health insurance and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance. Directs the department 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 health insurance.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2221
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: Tells DCBS to study health insurance and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance. Directs
the department 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 health insurance.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Consumer and Business Services shall study health in-
surance. The department 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.
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