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Oregon · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 3942: Relating to an expedited licensure process for health care facilities.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 3942 is a bill introduced in the Oregon House on March 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to an expedited licensure process for health care facilities. Primary sponsor: Cyrus Javadi (Democratic). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (August 13, 2025): Chapter 582, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

</b> </i>] <b>Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide for an expedited licensure process for health care facilities, except long term care facilities and residential facilities that primarily serve persons under 21 years of age.</b> Allows a person or governmental unit to use [<i>an</i>] <b>the</b> expedited licensure process to [<i>operate a health care facility, if the license is</i>] <b>apply for a license</b> to operate a health care facility <b>that is</b> in the same physical location and of the same type as a health care facility that previously operated at the location and the previously operated health care facility <b>was</b> closed within the last [<i>24</i>] <b>60</b> months voluntarily or due to financial hardship. Allows an applicant to be issued a provisional license to operate the health care facility while the applicant's application is being processed and reviewed. <b>Makes a person or governmental unit ineligible to use the expedited licensure process if the person or governmental unit voluntarily surrendered a license to operate a health care facility under certain circumstances.</b>

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Cyrus JavadiPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse32
Sara Gelser BlouinCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate8
Ed DiehlCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse17
Boomer WrightCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse9

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chapter 582, (2025 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2026.
  2. Governor signed.
  3. President signed.
  4. Speaker signed.
  5. House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
  6. Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Gelser Blouin. Passed.
  7. Second reading.
  8. Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng. bill. (Printed C-Eng.)
  9. Work Session held.
  10. Motion to refer to Committee on Rules carried by voice vote.
  11. Carried over to 06-04 by unanimous consent.
  12. Carried over to 06-03 by unanimous consent.

Showing 12 most recent of 33 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source