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HB2993 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.

Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Nelson, Representative Munoz,
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.

Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.

Digest: The Act tells the OMB and OSBN to offer classes and forms to help health care providers communicate with their patients.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells the OMB and OSBN to offer classes and forms to help health care providers communicate with their patients.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6).
  • Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.
  • Relating to: Relating to linguistically appropriate health care.

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 with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the OMB and OSBN to offer classes and forms to help health care providers communicate with their patients. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6).
Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language education to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in languages patients can comfortably communicate.
Relating to: Relating to linguistically appropriate health care.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2993
Sponsored by Representative NELSON; Representative MUNOZ (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 tells the OMB and OSBN to offer classes and forms to help health care pro-
viders communicate with their patients. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6).
Directs the Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to offer language edu-
cation to health care providers regulated by the boards and make available patient forms in lan-
guages patients can comfortably communicate.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to linguistically appropriate health care.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) In order to increase the number of health care providers who can com-
municate fluently with patients in the patient’s language, the Oregon Medical Board and the
Oregon State Board of Nursing shall, in conjunction, establish a program to offer language
education to health care providers regulated by the boards.
(2) The boards shall collaborate, and may contract with third parties as necessary, to
ensure that any forms required to be completed by a patient of a health care provider regu-
lated by the boards are available in the patient’s first language or a language in which the
patient can comfortably communicate.
(3) The boards may determine by rule the specific languages in which to offer the edu-
cation and the forms described in this section.
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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