Oregon Senate Bill 384

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-17 - Referred to Health Care.
Pending: Senate Health Care Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

The Act tells doctors to provide a child born alive with a level of care based on the child's gestational age, even if the child was born after an attempt to abort the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. Requires a health care practitioner to ensure that a child born alive is transported to a hospital. Creates a crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows a specified person to bring a civil action for damages and equitable relief against a health care practitioner for failure to exercise the proper degree of care. Directs the court to award attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff. Allows the court to order identity or personally identifiable information of plaintiff protected from disclosure. Defines "individual" for purposes of statute laws of this state to include an infant born alive.

Relating to abortion.

Sen. Kim Thatcher [R]	Sen. Daniel Bonham [R]	Sen. Suzanne Weber [R]	Rep. Bobby Levy [R]
Rep. Werner Reschke [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-17	Senate	Referred to Health Care.
2025-01-13	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB384
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB384/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/84581