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HB2538 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.

Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.

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Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.

Digest: The Act says that the OMB has to tell physicians and physician associates to take some classes on lethal means counseling.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act says that the OMB has to tell physicians and physician associates to take some classes on lethal means counseling.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
  • Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.
  • Relating to: Relating to continuing education for Oregon Medical Board licensees.

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. 2025-03-11 House

    Public Hearing held.

  3. 2025-02-13 House

    Public Hearing cancelled.

  4. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans.

  5. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that the OMB has to tell physicians and physician associates to take some classes on lethal means counseling. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.
Relating to: Relating to continuing education for Oregon Medical Board licensees.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2538
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans for Representative Thuy Tran)
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 says that the OMB has to tell physicians and physician associates to take some
classes on lethal means counseling. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Directs the Oregon Medical Board to require physicians and physician associates to complete
continuing education regarding lethal means counseling.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to continuing education for Oregon Medical Board licensees.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 677.
SECTION 2. (1)(a) The Oregon Medical Board shall adopt rules requiring that a physician
or a physician associate complete at least two hours every six years of continuing education
regarding suicide risk assessment, treatment and management as described in ORS 676.860
that includes lethal means counseling as defined by the board.
(b) The rules adopted under this subsection must require a physician or physician asso-
ciate to report the completion of the continuing education described in this subsection to the
board.
(2)(a) The board shall document completion of the continuing education described in
subsection (1) of this section by a physician or physician associate as required by ORS
676.860. The board shall remove any personally identifiable information from the data sub-
mitted to the board under this subsection, except for the personally identifiable information
of physicians and physician associates willing to share such information with the Oregon
Health Authority.
(b) In the manner and at the time required by ORS 676.860, the board shall report to the
authority on the data documented under this subsection.
(3) The board shall approve continuing education opportunities that meet the require-
ments of subsection (1) of this section.
SECTION 3.
The requirements of section 2 of this 2025 Act apply to licenses to practice
as a physician or physician associate issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this
2025 Act.
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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