Oregon House Bill 2959

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-17 - Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
Pending: House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

The Act makes some health insurance cover some fertility treatments. The Act tells OHA and DCBS to study access to reproductive treatments and report back to the committee on health. The Act makes it an emergency. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers. Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study access to fertility and reproductive endocrinology services and report findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Relating to infertility; declaring an emergency.

Rep. Courtney Neron [D]	Rep. Lucetta Elmer [R]	Sen. Deb Patterson [D]	Rep. April Dobson [D]
Rep. Emerson Levy [D]	Rep. Lesly Munoz [D]	Sen. Wlnsvey Campos [D]	Rep. Tom Andersen [D]
Rep. David Gomberg [D]	Rep. Zach Hudson [D]	Rep. Sarah Finger McDonald [D]	Rep. Susan McLain [D]
Rep. Nathan Sosa [D]	Rep. Thuy Tran [D]	Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin [D]	Sen. Kayse Jama [D]
Sen. Mark Meek [D]

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2959
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2959/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/83932