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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to lactation professionals; and declaring an emergency."
+description: "Allows Health Licensing Office to issue lactation consultant licenses to qualified applicants. Requires lactation consultants to complete cultural competency and trauma-informed care continuing education courses. Prohibits unlicensed use of \"lactation consultant\" title and practice of lactation consultation. Provides exceptions to prohibition. <b>Allows office to impose discipline for certain violations. Directs office to provide administrative and regulatory oversight to lactation consultation program.</b> Imposes civil penalty for violation of licensure requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
+legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
+session: "2017 Regular Session"
+identifier: "HB 2503"
+citation: "Oregon HB 2503 (2017 Regular Session)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nancy Nathanson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-01-09T20:20:19+00:00"
+last_action: "2017-07-13T17:08:14+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78e6892e-8044-4e2a-815a-75d66e0708ed"
+source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Measures/Overview/HB2503"
+source_hash: "6437a2b5b088bffb25ef55c4268de60e1a852a24cfdbd6c871efa8f8314e6d9a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
+---
+
+# Oregon HB 2503 (2017 Regular Session) — Relating to lactation professionals; and declaring an emergency.
+
+Allows Health Licensing Office to issue lactation consultant licenses to qualified applicants. Requires lactation consultants to complete cultural competency and trauma-informed care continuing education courses. Prohibits unlicensed use of "lactation consultant" title and practice of lactation consultation. Provides exceptions to prohibition. <b>Allows office to impose discipline for certain violations. Directs office to provide administrative and regulatory oversight to lactation consultation program.</b> Imposes civil penalty for violation of licensure requirements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/House Amendments to Introduced)
+2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/Introduced)
+3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/A-Engrossed)
+4. **B-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/B-Engrossed)
+5. **House Amendments to A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/House Amendments to A-Engrossed)
+6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2503/Enrolled)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third reading. Carried by Nathanson. Passed. — **53–3** (pass) · legislature
+- Third reading. Carried by Steiner Hayward. Passed. — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nancy Nathanson — primary (person)
+- Phil Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheri Malstrom — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09T20:20:19+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-18T01:55:48+00:00** Referred to Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-06T23:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
+- **2017-04-14T15:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2017-04-20T20:51:15+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-20T20:51:16+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-24T22:03:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-30T15:33:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
+- **2017-05-30T15:32:00+00:00** Public Hearing and Work Session held.
+- **2017-06-02T16:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
+- **2017-06-05T22:20:52+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-06T16:47:34+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2017-06-07T21:18:24+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Nathanson. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-06-08T16:24:02+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-09T16:02:43+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-14T15:42:21+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill. `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-06-14T16:55:56+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
+- **2017-06-15T19:06:43+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Steiner Hayward. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-06-20T20:38:40+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
+- **2017-06-23T21:29:59+00:00** President signed. `passage`
+- **2017-06-29T21:27:24+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-13T17:08:14+00:00** Chapter 499, (2017 Laws): Effective date June 29, 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78e6892e-8044-4e2a-815a-75d66e0708ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).
+