republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/sb-476.md

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Bill	Relating to professional workforce; and declaring an emergency.	Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals. Allows the Oregon Medical Board to issue a provisional license to a qualified internationally trained physician. Requires the holder of a provisional license to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician for four years prior to applying for full licensure. Directs the board to submit a report every odd-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care on the provisional licensure of internationally trained physicians. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	SB 476	Oregon SB 476 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Courtney Neron Misslin Deb Patterson James Manning Jr. Kayse Jama Lew Frederick Lisa Reynolds	11	25	6	2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00	2025-08-13T17:23:16+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bd089eea-6dcb-47c4-bf11-af07084e9e7a	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB476	57dc446020144433ed141b386e5f8ebdc98625626224acbab0c3489f11dfc971	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 476 (2025R1) — Relating to professional workforce; and declaring an emergency.

Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals. Allows the Oregon Medical Board to issue a provisional license to a qualified internationally trained physician. Requires the holder of a provisional license to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician for four years prior to applying for full licensure. Directs the board to submit a report every odd-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care on the provisional licensure of internationally trained physicians. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. C-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House Amendments to B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. JWM Amendment -A5 (committee substitute) — source
8. JWM Amendment -B6 (committee substitute) — source
9. SHC Amendment -2 (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
11. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Valderrama. Passed. — 33–11 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Jama. Passed. — 18–11 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 16–7 (pass) · legislature
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 14–7 (pass) · legislature
• Rules suspended. Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill. — 19–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Courtney Neron Misslin — primary (person)
• Deb Patterson — primary (person)
• James Manning Jr. — primary (person)
• Kayse Jama — primary (person)
• Lew Frederick — primary (person)
• Lisa Reynolds — primary (person)
• Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
• Khanh Pham — cosponsor (person)
• Thuy Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Nelson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00 Referred to Health Care. referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T23:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-03-27T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-04-02T16:53:10+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02T16:53:11+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President. referral-committee
• 2025-06-06T15:43:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On Human Services. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12T20:33:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
• 2025-06-12T20:32:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-17T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-19T22:43:28+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-20T20:01:33+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-23T18:13:50+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Jama. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-23T22:48:28+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23T23:09:35+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-06-26T15:32:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-26T17:43:33+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed C-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26T20:35:00+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-26T23:00:02+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Valderrama. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-27T18:37:27+00:00 Rules suspended. Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill.
• 2025-06-30T17:32:45+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-30T18:36:31+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-08-01T01:16:45+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-08-13T17:18:34+00:00 Chapter 618, 2025 Laws.
• 2025-08-13T17:23:16+00:00 Effective date, July 31, 2025.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd089eea-6dcb-47c4-bf11-af07084e9e7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).