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HB2917 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690.

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 potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how coverage will be determined for the Oregon Health Plan.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how coverage will be determined for the Oregon Health Plan.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
  • Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690.
  • Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health 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. 2025-03-27 House

    Public Hearing held.

  3. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  4. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how coverage will be determined for the Oregon Health Plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to medical assistance.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2917
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Oregon Health Authority)
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 tells OHA to study how coverage will be determined for the Oregon Health
Plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study potential changes to the prioritized list of health
services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS 414.690. Directs the au-
thority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health
not later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to medical assistance.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall study potential changes to the prioritized
list of health services compiled by the Health Evidence Review Commission under ORS
414.690. 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 As-
sembly related to health 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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