republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2024r1/hb-4003.md

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Bill	Relating to medical examiners; declaring an emergency.	Digest: The Act tells a state agency to study the shortage of MEs in this state. The Act tells the agency to provide the results of the study to the legislature by October 1, 2024. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0).	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2024R1	HB 4003	Oregon HB 4003 (2024R1)	bill		enacted	Kim Wallan	8	21	5	2024-02-05T16:09:01+00:00	2024-04-10T21:29:11+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/eb4ea685-ad95-4ff9-b117-bb26e7673e96	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4003	3d8e9755133dcb50bda097fc4891dc75d24d000539316611c841c54de453108c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon HB 4003 (2024R1) — Relating to medical examiners; declaring an emergency.

Digest: The Act tells a state agency to study the shortage of MEs in this state. The Act tells the agency to provide the results of the study to the legislature by October 1, 2024. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.0).

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. HBHHC Amendment -2 (committee substitute) — source
6. SHC Amendment -A3 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed. — 27–3 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill. — 54–1 (pass) · lower
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Wallan. Passed. — 59–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kim Wallan — primary (person)
• Boomer Wright — cosponsor (person)
• Christine Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Dacia Grayber — cosponsor (person)
• David Brock Smith — cosponsor (person)
• E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
• James Hieb — cosponsor (person)
• Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
• Janelle Bynum — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Owens — cosponsor (person)
• Rick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Nosse — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-05T16:09:01+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-05T19:10:57+00:00 Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2024-02-05T23:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2024-02-12T23:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2024-02-14T00:00:52+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and subsequent referral to Ways and Means be rescinded. committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-14T00:02:15+00:00 Subsequent referral to Ways and Means rescinded by order of the Speaker.
• 2024-02-14T19:25:59+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-14T19:42:28+00:00 Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Wallan. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-15T18:50:32+00:00 First reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-15T21:33:50+00:00 Referred to Health Care. referral-committee
• 2024-02-21T21:02:00+00:00 Public Hearing and Work Session held.
• 2024-02-23T18:48:54+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26T20:09:10+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2024-02-27T20:28:16+00:00 Carried over to 02-28 by unanimous consent.
• 2024-02-28T19:44:53+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Hayden. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-28T19:45:53+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Boquist.
• 2024-03-07T00:02:56+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
• 2024-03-13T22:07:25+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2024-03-19T18:45:47+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2024-04-04T23:03:58+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2024-04-10T21:29:11+00:00 Chapter 72, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb4ea685-ad95-4ff9-b117-bb26e7673e96. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).