OR SB835

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) must collaborate with Oregon's nine federally recognized Indian tribes to adopt rules for collecting, storing, and using tribal affiliation data, with standards protecting each tribe's right to govern its own data

Tribal affiliation data becomes confidential and cannot be released by OHA unless authorized through a written data use agreement with the affected tribe

Coordinated care organizations, health care providers, and health insurers must annually collect tribal affiliation data from patients/members and submit it to OHA, though individuals may refuse to answer

OHA is prohibited from collecting, storing, or using any tribal affiliation data until uniform standards are adopted in collaboration with the tribes

Amendments become operative January 1, 2026; emergency clause makes the act effective upon passage