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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relating to health care; and declaring an emergency."
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description: "Prohibits hospital from conditioning admission or treatment, or suggesting that treatment is conditioned, on patient having POLST or executing advance directive or other instruction regarding administration, withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining procedures or artificially administered nutrition and hydration."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
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legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
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session: "2020S1"
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identifier: "SB 1606"
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citation: "Oregon SB 1606 (2020S1)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Peter Courtney", "Sara Gelser"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2020-06-24T14:11:46+00:00"
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last_action: "2020-07-13T15:27:46+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b198954-6675-418d-88e1-e5f950599f36"
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source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2020S1/Measures/Overview/SB1606"
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source_hash: "3f4faeed6685df69cc76ac687b0facba0f87bb9a2595255ae90806ada36f4632"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
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---
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# Oregon SB 1606 (2020S1) — Relating to health care; and declaring an emergency.
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Prohibits hospital from conditioning admission or treatment, or suggesting that treatment is conditioned, on patient having POLST or executing advance directive or other instruction regarding administration, withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining procedures or artificially administered nutrition and hydration.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2020S1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1606/Introduced)
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2. **Senate Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2020S1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1606/Senate%20Amendments%20to%20Introduced)
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3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2020S1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1606/A-Engrossed)
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4. **J1SS Amendment -8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2020S1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/18059)
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5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2020S1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1606/Enrolled)
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## Votes
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- Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed. — **56–0** (pass) · lower
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- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Gelser. Passed. — **27–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Peter Courtney — primary (person)
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- Sara Gelser — primary (person)
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- Alissa Keny-Guyer — cosponsor (person)
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- Andrea Salinas — cosponsor (person)
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- Bill Post — cosponsor (person)
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- Cedric Hayden — cosponsor (person)
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- Cheri Helt — cosponsor (person)
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- David Brock Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Jack Zika — cosponsor (person)
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- James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- Laurie Monnes Anderson — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark Hass — cosponsor (person)
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- Marty Wilde — cosponsor (person)
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- Maxine Dexter — cosponsor (person)
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- Rachel Prusak — cosponsor (person)
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- Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)
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- Sheri Schouten — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-06-24T14:11:46+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-24T14:36:38+00:00** Referred to The First Special Session of 2020. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-25T17:02:00+00:00** Public Hearing and Work Session held.
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- **2020-06-26T17:59:07+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments. (Printed A-Eng.) `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-06-26T18:56:32+00:00** Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Gelser. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-06-26T19:16:08+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-26T20:37:51+00:00** Referred to The First Special Session of 2020. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-26T21:15:10+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-06-27T00:02:57+00:00** Rules suspended. Second reading. `reading-2`
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- **2020-06-27T01:54:48+00:00** Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Prusak. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
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- **2020-06-26T18:00:07+00:00** Rules suspended. Second reading. `reading-2`
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- **2020-06-30T16:46:33+00:00** President signed. `passage`
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- **2020-07-07T17:41:20+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
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- **2020-07-07T21:12:00+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-06-26T18:57:32+00:00** Vote explanation filed by Boquist.
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- **2020-07-13T15:26:59+00:00** Chapter 20, 2020 Laws.
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- **2020-07-13T15:27:46+00:00** Effective date, July 7, 2020.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b198954-6675-418d-88e1-e5f950599f36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).
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