---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to medical transports."
description: "Requires health benefit plans to cover emergency medical services transports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2021 Regular Session"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Oregon SB 3 (2021 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter Courtney"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-11T17:28:22+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-30T17:35:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82529a4e-fbea-4db5-bbe9-67c2f69be5e0"
source_url: "https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Measures/Overview/SB3"
source_hash: "161c5bd9d82a77ebaa8567fe131a3b5592db41cb882ead9219167b90d2a8646d"
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 SB 3 (2021 Regular Session) — Relating to medical transports.

Requires health benefit plans to cover emergency medical services transports.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB3/Introduced)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB3/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Heard and Reported Out — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Third reading. Carried by President Courtney. Passed. — **26–1** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed. — **47–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peter Courtney — primary (person)
- Deb Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-11T17:28:22+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19T19:35:42+00:00** Referred to Health Care. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T21:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2021-03-22T20:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2021-04-01T15:13:30+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T17:55:16+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05T19:36:11+00:00** Third reading. Carried by President Courtney. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T03:28:08+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05T19:37:11+00:00** Vote explanation(s) filed by Heard.
- **2021-04-13T03:22:43+00:00** Referred to Health Care. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29T22:16:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2021-05-20T22:16:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2021-05-25T22:17:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2021-05-28T23:56:32+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-01T18:17:57+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2021-06-02T23:12:59+00:00** Rules suspended. Carried over to June 3, 2021 Calendar.
- **2021-06-03T22:28:01+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-06-08T20:24:56+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2021-06-09T15:20:21+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2021-06-15T17:23:57+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-30T17:34:51+00:00** Chapter 312, 2021 Laws.
- **2021-06-30T17:35:40+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2022.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82529a4e-fbea-4db5-bbe9-67c2f69be5e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).