Oregon House Bill 2372

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-17 - Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
Pending: House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

The Act requires that a doctor provide the same standard of care to any child born alive that requires life-saving treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive, regardless of whether the birth was the result of an induced abortion. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care practitioner for violations. Allows the court to order that the identity or personally identifiable information of specified persons is protected from disclosure.

Relating to infants born alive.

Rep. Bobby Levy [R]	Rep. Kevin Mannix [R]	Rep. Werner Reschke [R]	Rep. Boomer Wright [R]
Sen. Todd Nash [R]	Sen. Suzanne Weber [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-17	House	Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
2025-01-13	House	First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2372
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2372/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/85236