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OR SB841

Bill

Status

Passed

6/11/2025

Primary Sponsor

Unknown

Origin

Senate

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority to enter into agreements with federally recognized tribes and tribal epidemiology centers to receive reports of reportable diseases and conduct disease outbreak investigations

  • Adds tribes and tribal epidemiology centers as entities that can receive reportable disease reports, investigate cases, and implement control measures alongside local public health administrators

  • Extends confidentiality protections for disease investigation information to cover tribes and tribal epidemiology centers, while also allowing them to share information with appropriate agencies and publish non-identifying statistical reports

  • Permits the Oregon Health Authority to share prescription drug monitoring program data with tribes and tribal epidemiology centers to identify tribally-affiliated patients and transmit aggregated tribal affiliation data

  • Defines "tribe" as any of the nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon and "tribal epidemiology center" as centers operating under federal law (25 U.S.C. 1621m) for the benefit of any tribe

Legislative Description

Relating to tribal public health data.

Last Action

Effective date, January 1, 2026.

6/11/2025

Committee Referrals

Behavioral Health and Health Care4/16/2025
Health Care1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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