Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB2676: Relating to an interstate dental professionals compact; prescribing an effective date.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: The Act makes Oregon join a compact to let dentists and dental hygienists from other states work in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Enacts the interstate Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. Permits the Oregon Board of Dentistry to disclose specified information to the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact Commission. Exempts individuals authorized by compact privilege from requirement to obtain licensure from the board to practice as a dentist or dental hygienist. Allows the board to use moneys to meet financial obligations imposed on the State of Oregon as a result of participation in the compact. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
What the bill says
A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to an interstate dental professionals compact; creating new provisions; amending ORS 676.177, 679.025, 679.260 and 680.020; and prescribing an effective date.
From the introduced text, January 10, 2025:
A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to an interstate dental professionals compact; creating new provisions; amending ORS 676.177, 679.025, 679.260 and 680.020; and prescribing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: SECTION 1. The provisions of the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact are as follows: DENTIST AND DENTAL HYGIENIST COMPACT SECTION 1. TITLE AND PURPOSE This statute shall be known and cited as the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. The purposes of this Compact are to facilitate the interstate practice of dentistry and dental hygiene and improve public access to dentistry and dental hygiene services by providing dentists and dental hygienists licensed in a participating state the ability to practice in participating states in which they are not licensed. This Compact does this by establishing a pathway for dentists and dental hygienists licensed in a participating state to obtain a Compact privilege that authorizes them to practice in another participating state in which they are not licensed. This Compact enables participating states to protect the public health and safety with respect to the practice of such dentists and dental hygienists, through the state's authority to regulate the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene in the state. This Compact: A. Enables dentists and dental hygienists who qualify for a Compact privilege to practice in …
Sponsors
- Edwin Diehl (R, 17) · primary sponsor
- Cyrus Javadi (R, 32) · primary sponsor
- Cedric Hayden (R, 6) · primary sponsor
- Andrea Valderrama (D, 47)
- Daniel Bonham (R, 26)
- Mark Meek (D, 20)
- Janeen Sollman (D, 15)
- Hai Pham (D, 36) · primary sponsor
- Emily McIntire (R, 56)
- Darin Harbick (R, 12)
Latest actions
- : In committee upon adjournment.
- : Public Hearing held.
- : Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
- : First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Subjects: Behavioral Health and Health Care
Common questions
- What is HB2676?
- HB2676 is a bill in the Oregon Legislature (2025 Legislative Measures): Relating to an interstate dental professionals compact; prescribing an effective date.
- What does HB2676 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to an interstate dental professionals compact; creating new provisions; amending ORS 676.177, 679.025, 679.260 and 680.020; and prescribing an effective date.
- What is the status of HB2676?
- Failed as of June 27, 2025. Latest action: In committee upon adjournment. (June 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB2676?
- Edwin Diehl (R, 17), with 9 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB2676?
- On the Oregon Legislature website: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/2676
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