Nursing-Related Legislature Tracker
Janette Wilkinson, MN, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner
Willamette Health & Wellness in Portland, OR
Oregon’s 2025 Legislative Session convened on Tuesday, January 21. State lawmakers are back to work with various healthcare and nursing-focused bills proposed for this year’s season. The Oregon Center for Nursing compiles an annual nonpartisan tracker of proposed bills with the possibility of impacting nursing professionals and the healthcare workforce. This page is updated weekly with the latest legislative process.
Please note that this resource is not all-inclusive and only intended for educational purposes. We encourage all users to conduct independent research on the proposed legislature and contact their state representatives to share feedback or testimony.
Bill No. | Title | Summary | Chief Sponsor | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Relating to the health care workforce. | Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the health care workforce in Oregon. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to health care. | Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to primary care. | Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study primary care in Oregon. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to universal health care. | Requires the Universal Health Plan Governance Board to study universal health care. | No Sponsor | Presession Filed | |
Relating to the health care workforce. | Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study matters relating to the health care workforce in this state. | No Sponsor | Presession Filed | |
Relating to health care. | Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study health care. | No Sponsor | Presession Filed | |
Relating to health care provider incentives. | Defines "rural" for purposes of the rural health care provider incentive program. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to violence in health care settings; prescribing an effective date. | Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to community health; declaring an emergency. | Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to contract directly with traditional health workers, community health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to occupational disease. | Adds certain health care employees to the list of workers for whom certain stress disorders give rise to a presumption that a workers' compensation claim is compensable as an occupational disease. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to the protection of health care workers. | Expands the crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to a health care worker while the worker is acting in the course of official duty. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to violence in health care settings; prescribing an effective date. | Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to nurse faculty compensation. | Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation in this state. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to emergency preparedness; prescribing an effective date. | Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at a 25 percent mortality rate. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to the use of nursing titles. | Prohibits a nonhuman entity from using the title "nurse" or other similar titles. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to services provided by registered nurses; prescribing an effective date. | Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority under specified circumstances from requiring, as a condition of reimbursing the cost of the service, a primary care provider to order a covered care management service provided by a licensed registered nurse to a medical assistance recipient. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to exceptions to prohibited use of official position or office. | Provides an exception to the prohibition against a public official using official position or office for financial gain or avoidance of financial detriment. | No Sponsor | Presession Filed | |
Relating to schools. | Provides that only a registered nurse may supervise a nurse in a school setting with respect to the practice of nursing. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to linguistically appropriate health care. | 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. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to nursing; prescribing an effective date. | Defines "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse," "diagnosing" and "medication aide. | No Sponsor | Presession Filed | |
Relating to staffing plans for home health care entities; prescribing an effective date. | Requires home health agencies and home hospice programs to establish home health and home hospice staffing committees to develop staffing plans. | Presession Filed | ||
Relating to nursing education. | Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs. | Presession Filed |
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Last updated January 27, 2025.