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HB3282 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Evans
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 contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.

Digest: The Act would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA operate better.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA operate better.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
  • Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
  • Directs the authority to report the findings of the contractor to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no 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. 2025-01-24 House

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

  3. 2025-01-21 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA operate better. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Directs the authority to report the findings of the contractor to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to the restructuring of the Oregon Health Authority.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3282
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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 would make a third party study the OHA and provide ideas to make the OHA
operate better. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to contract with a third party to examine restructuring
of the authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness. Directs the authority to report the
findings of the contractor to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health
no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the restructuring of the Oregon Health Authority.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Oregon Health Authority shall contract with a third party that has ex-
perience and recognized expertise in corporate restructuring to examine the structure of the
agency and make recommendation for changes to the structure to improve efficiency and
responsiveness of the agency. The authority shall report the findings of the contractor, in
the manner provided by ORS 192.245, which may include recommendations for legislation, to
the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health no later than Septem-
ber 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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