2025 Regular Session HB 2382

• Bill Title: Relating to funding services for pregnant persons other than types of abortions on which federal moneys may not be spent; providing that this Act shall be referred to the people for their approval or rejection.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: The Act limits payments for abortions and directs the OHA to set up a grant program to help pregnant people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a grant program for the purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term. Establishes the Pregnancy Assistance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the authority for the purpose of making grants. Specifies a minimum biennial amount that must be deposited in the fund.

Specifies that the authority may reimburse abortions as part of this state's medical assistance program only if the abortion is necessary to avoid the impairment of the pregnant person's major bodily functions or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Refers the Act to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.

• Fiscal Impact: May Have Fiscal Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Revenue Impact: May Have Revenue Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Current Location: In House Committee
• Current Committee: House Committee On Behavioral Health and Health Care

Subsequent Referral(s)

• Joint Committee On Ways and Means