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Bill Relating to health care interpreters; and declaring an emergency. Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services. Requires health professional regulatory boards, Department of Human Services and authority to adopt rules to enforce requirement. Provides exceptions. us/states/or Oregon Legislative Assembly 2021 Regular Session HB 2359 Oregon HB 2359 (2021 Regular Session)
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Oregon HB 2359 (2021 Regular Session) — Relating to health care interpreters; and declaring an emergency.

Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services. Requires health professional regulatory boards, Department of Human Services and authority to adopt rules to enforce requirement. Provides exceptions.

Version chain

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

  1. House Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Introduced (filed) — source
  3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  5. HHC Amendment -4 (committee substitute) — source
  6. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  7. JWM Amendment -A5 (committee substitute) — source
  8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 81 (pass) · lower
  • Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 460 (pass) · legislature
  • Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Salinas. Passed. — 509 (pass) · lower
  • Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. — 218 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Andrea Salinas — primary (person)
  • Lew Frederick — primary (person)
  • Ricki Ruiz — primary (person)
  • Andrea Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
  • Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
  • Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
  • Janelle Bynum — cosponsor (person)
  • Khanh Pham — cosponsor (person)
  • Lisa Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
  • Maxine Dexter — cosponsor (person)
  • Rep Leif — cosponsor (person)
  • Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
  • Sheri Schouten — cosponsor (person)
  • Tawna Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
  • Teresa Alonso Leon — cosponsor (person)
  • Wlnsvey Campos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-11T15:57:04+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2021-01-20T04:40:25+00:00 Referred to Health Care. referral-committee
  • 2021-03-02T23:16:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
  • 2021-04-19T18:36:33+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means. committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-04-19T18:36:34+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker. referral-committee
  • 2021-06-03T13:13:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services. referral-committee
  • 2021-06-08T15:03:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
  • 2021-06-08T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
  • 2021-04-13T22:17:00+00:00 Work Session held.
  • 2021-06-11T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
  • 2021-06-15T13:41:41+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-06-17T17:38:07+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
  • 2021-06-17T18:09:55+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Salinas. Passed. passage, reading-3
  • 2021-06-17T18:55:09+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2021-06-17T21:01:53+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
  • 2021-06-21T15:15:42+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass the B-Eng. bill. committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-06-21T17:59:25+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
  • 2021-06-22T17:24:47+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. passage, reading-3
  • 2021-06-24T16:39:09+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
  • 2021-06-26T15:59:48+00:00 President signed. passage
  • 2021-06-22T17:25:47+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Heard.
  • 2021-07-14T19:16:00+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
  • 2021-09-25T15:00:00+00:00 Chapter 453, (2021 Laws): Effective date July 14, 2021.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f764b1c2-8af1-4cb7-abf9-bb26d02d6176. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).