Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SB27: Relating to the health care workforce; declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, April 13, 2026
Digest: The Act gives moneys to OHA and DHS to support the health care workforce. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). [ Digest: The Act tells the Oregon Health Authority to look at the health care workforce in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). ] [ Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the health care workforce in Oregon. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026. ] Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services for certain programs, reimbursements and incentive payments to support the health care workforce.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, April 15, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session SENATE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL By COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE April In line 2 of the printed bill, after "workforce" insert "; and declaring an emergency". Delete lines 4 through 8 and insert: "SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $20,000,000, for the purpose of paying the nonfederal share of the Oregon Essential Workforce Health Care Program established under ORS 735.520. "SECTION 2. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $2,500,000, for the purpose of paying the nonfederal share of the Oregon CareWorks Supplemental Payment Program. "SECTION 3. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $2,500,000, for the purpose of providing reimbursements to hospitals participating in a labor-management training trust, as provided in ORS 676.479, as amended by section 2, chapter ____, Oregon Laws 2025 (Enrolled Senate Bill 283). "SECTION 4. …