Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2382
Sponsored by Representative LEVY B; Representatives OSBORNE, SCHARF, WRIGHT, Senator NASH (Presession
filed.)
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: The Act limits payments for abortions and directs the OHA to set up a grant program
to help pregnant people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making
grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in
carrying their pregnancies to term. Establishes the Pregnancy Assistance Fund and continuously
appropriates moneys in the fund to the authority for the purpose of making grants. Specifies a
minimum biennial amount that must be deposited in the fund.
Specifies that the authority may reimburse abortions as part of this state’s medical assistance
program only if the abortion is necessary to avoid the impairment of the pregnant person’s major
bodily functions or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
Refers the Act to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to funding services for pregnant persons other than types of abortions on which federal
moneys may not be spent; and providing that this Act shall be referred to the people for their
approval or rejection.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall establish a grant program for the
purpose of making grants from the Pregnancy Assistance Fund established under section 2
of this 2025 Act. Under the program, the authority shall make grants to entities:
(a) That are qualified as specified in subsection (2) of this section; and
(b)(A) That inform pregnant or postpartum persons about agencies or organizations that
provide services described in subsection (3) of this section;
(B) That refer pregnant or postpartum persons to agencies or organizations that provide
services described in subsection (3) of this section;
(C) That assist, in a manner not described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this para-
graph, pregnant or postpartum persons in receiving services from agencies or organizations
that provide services described in subsection (3) of this section; or
(D) That directly provide services described in subsection (3) of this section.
(2) To be qualified to receive a grant under this section, an entity must:
(a) Be a private nonprofit organization.
(b) Demonstrate to the satisfaction of the authority that the entity:
(A) Provides for the proper supervision of activities conducted by the entity;
(B) Primarily will use grant moneys to encourage or assist pregnant persons in carrying
their pregnancies to term; and
(C) Will not use grant moneys to encourage or assist pregnant persons in having
abortions unless an abortion is necessary to avoid impairment of a pregnant person’s major
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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bodily functions.
(c) Provide each pregnant person who receives assistance from the entity with informa-
tion on:
(A) Fetal development, including a week-by-week description of fetal characteristics;
(B) Adequate medical care for pregnant persons and newborns; and
(C) Adequate nutrition for pregnant persons and newborns.
(3) For purposes of subsection (1)(b) of this section, an entity may assist a pregnant or
postpartum person in receiving services from an agency or organization that provides, or an
entity may directly provide, one or more of the following services:
(a) Medical care for pregnant or postpartum persons;
(b) Nutritional support services for pregnant or postpartum persons;
(c) Adoption services;
(d) Parenting education;
(e) Parenting support services;
(f) Assistance in acquiring housing; or
(g) Assistance in acquiring further education or finding employment.
(4) The authority may pay expenses incurred by the authority in administering this sec-
tion out of moneys that are available to the authority for the purpose of making grants un-
der this section.
(5) The authority may adopt rules necessary to administer this section.
SECTION 2.
(1) The Pregnancy Assistance Fund is established in the State Treasury,
separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Pregnancy Assistance
Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority for
purposes described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
(3) The authority may accept from any source any grant, donation or gift of moneys for
deposit in the fund.
SECTION 3. At a minimum, the following amounts of moneys shall be appropriated to the
Oregon Health Authority for deposit in the Pregnancy Assistance Fund established under
section 2 of this 2025 Act:
(1) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, the average amount of moneys per biennium
expended by the authority on reimbursing abortions as part of the state’s medical assistance
program during the biennia beginning July 1, 2009, July 1, 2011, July 1, 2013, July 1, 2015, July
1, 2017, July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2021; and
(2) For each biennium subsequent to the biennium beginning on July 1, 2025:
(a) The amount of moneys appropriated for the preceding biennium; and
(b) An amount of moneys equal to any percentage increase in the cost of living, based
on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items), published
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, that has oc-
curred since the beginning of the preceding biennium multiplied by the amount of moneys
appropriated for the preceding biennium.
SECTION 4.
(1) The Oregon Health Authority may reimburse abortions as part of the
state’s medical assistance program only if the abortion is performed for one of the following
reasons:
(a) The abortion is necessary to avoid impairment of the pregnant person’s major bodily
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functions; or
(b) The pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
(2) The authority shall adopt rules necessary to verify that reimbursement of abortions
as part of the state’s medical assistance program is in compliance with this section.
SECTION 5.
This 2025 Act shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection
at the next regular general election held throughout this state.
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