HB3019 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Neron
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 Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States.

Digest: The Act tells the OMB to look at giving licenses to doctors and PAs who trained outside the USA.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the OMB to look at giving licenses to doctors and PAs who trained outside the USA.
(Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States.
Directs the board to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the OMB to look at giving licenses to doctors and PAs who trained outside the USA. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training outside of the United States. Directs the board 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 Oregon Medical Board licensure of medical practitioners trained outside of the United States.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3019
Sponsored by Representative NERON (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 to look at giving licenses to doctors and PAs who trained outside
the USA. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
Requires the Oregon Medical Board to study licensing certain providers who received training
outside of the United States. Directs the board 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 Oregon Medical Board licensure of medical practitioners trained outside of the United
States.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Medical Board shall study the benefits and drawbacks of issuing
licenses to physicians and physician associates who received training outside of the United
States. The board 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 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.
LC 1774