republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/sb-605.md

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Bill	Relating to medical debt reporting.	Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	SB 605	Oregon SB 605 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Nathan Sosa Wlnsvey Campos	8	25	5	2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00	2025-06-23T19:08:23+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/211c04bf-73c7-4603-87a1-a2cf153358ee	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB605	4cfc73b8dd2b22812ffcf9dfb2e074b0d01f25ea745adda6c94e42103d8c1cc0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 605 (2025R1) — Relating to medical debt reporting.

Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.

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. HCCP Amendment -A9 (committee substitute) — source
6. House Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. SLB Amendment -6 (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill. — 18–12 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 5–4 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Sosa. Passed. — 34–17 (pass) · lower
• Third reading. Carried by Campos. Passed. — 18–10 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 3–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nathan Sosa — primary (person)
• Wlnsvey Campos — primary (person)
• David Gomberg — cosponsor (person)
• Deb Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Farrah Chaichi — cosponsor (person)
• Hai Pham — cosponsor (person)
• James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Khanh Pham — cosponsor (person)
• Lesly Muñoz — cosponsor (person)
• Lew Frederick — cosponsor (person)
• Lisa Fragala — cosponsor (person)
• Sen Woods — cosponsor (person)
• Thuy Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)
• Zach Hudson — 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 Labor and Business, then Health Care. referral-committee
• 2025-01-30T16:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-03-18T15:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-04-08T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-04-18T17:19:46+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and subsequent referral to Health Care be rescinded. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-18T17:19:47+00:00 Subsequent referral rescinded by order of the President.
• 2025-04-21T18:38:45+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-04-22T19:24:51+00:00 Carried over to 04-23 by unanimous consent.
• 2025-04-23T18:48:35+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Campos. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-24T17:41:03+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-24T21:11:12+00:00 Referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection. referral-committee
• 2025-05-08T20:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing cancelled.
• 2025-05-15T21:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-05-20T20:32:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-05-23T18:50:56+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27T19:09:56+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-05-28T20:23:29+00:00 Rules suspended. Carried over to May 29, 2025 Calendar.
• 2025-05-29T21:42:45+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Sosa. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-09T19:05:49+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments and repassed bill.
• 2025-06-10T19:30:18+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-11T16:51:25+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-06-17T19:13:27+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-06-23T19:03:43+00:00 Chapter 343, 2025 Laws.
• 2025-06-23T19:08:23+00:00 Effective date, January 1, 2026.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/211c04bf-73c7-4603-87a1-a2cf153358ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).