SB506 • 2025

Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.

Digest: The Act prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in custody.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in custody.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
Relating to: Relating to prohibiting gender-affirming care at correctional facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Health Care.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the custody of a correctional facility in this state.
Relating to: Relating to prohibiting gender-affirming care at correctional facilities.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 506
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (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 prohibits DOC, OYA or OHA from paying for certain health care for people in
custody. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Prohibits the Department of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority
from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in the cus-
tody of a correctional facility in this state.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to prohibiting gender-affirming care at correctional facilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Correctional facility” means any place used for the confinement of persons charged
with or convicted of a crime or otherwise confined under a court order and includes but is
not limited to a youth correction facility or a state hospital, as those terms are defined in
ORS 162.135.
(b) “Gender-affirming care” means a procedure, service, drug, device or product that a
physical or behavioral health care provider prescribes to treat an individual for incongruence
between the individual’s gender identity and the individual’s sex assignment at birth.
(2)(a) Notwithstanding ORS 435.210 or 659A.142 or any other provision of law, the De-
partment of Corrections, Oregon Youth Authority or Oregon Health Authority may not pay
for or provide, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to any individual in the custody
of a correctional facility in this state.
(b) This section does not apply to individuals receiving treatment at a state hospital or
intensive community inpatient facility if the patients were admitted voluntarily or through
a civil commitment proceeding under ORS 426.070 to 426.170, 426.701 or 427.235 to 427.292.
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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