SB683 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians 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 Golden
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to conduct a count of primary care physicians in this state who are in active practice.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to conduct a count of primary care physicians in this state who are in active practice.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state.
Directs the authority to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly and make the report publicly available.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-04-15 Senate
Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-04-15 Senate
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-04-08 Senate
Work Session held.
2025-03-18 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Health Care, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to conduct a count of primary care physicians in this state who are in active practice. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state. Directs the authority to submit a report to the Legislative Assembly and make the report publicly available.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to primary care physicians; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 683
Sponsored by Senator GOLDEN (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 OHA to conduct a count of primary care physicians in this state who are
in active practice. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study every two years to count the number
of licensed and actively practicing primary care physicians in this state. Directs the authority to
submit a report to the Legislative Assembly and make the report publicly available.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to primary care physicians; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “primary care physician” means a physician li-
censed under ORS chapter 677 whose clinical practice is:
(a) Family medicine;
(b) General internal medicine; or
(c) Pediatrics.
(2) Every two years, the Oregon Health Authority shall conduct a study to count the
number of primary care physicians in this state who are licensed and in active practice. In
conducting the study, the authority shall:
(a) Include a primary care physician in the count only if the physician is actively seeing
patients in a primary care capacity;
(b) Sort the data by city and region; and
(c) Identify gaps in the availability of primary care physicians in rural and medically
underserved areas.
(3) The authority shall submit a report on the authority’s findings to the Legislative
Assembly, including any recommendations for addressing primary care physician shortages
and improving health care access in rural and medically underserved areas, and shall make
the report publicly available on the authority’s website.
SECTION 2.
No later than September 15, 2026, the Oregon Health Authority shall com-
plete the first report described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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