Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or…
- Introduced Jan 13, 2025
- In committee Jan 17, 2025
- Died
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
The Act tells doctors to provide a child born alive with a level of care based on the child's gestational age, even if the child was born after an attempt to abort the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. Requires a health care practitioner to…
Read the full title (176 words)
The Act tells doctors to provide a child born alive with a level of care based on the child's gestational age, even if the child was born after an attempt to abort the child. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. Requires a health care practitioner to ensure that a child born alive is transported to a hospital. Creates a crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows a specified person to bring a civil action for damages and equitable relief against a health care practitioner for failure to exercise the proper degree of care. Directs the court to award attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff. Allows the court to order identity or personally identifiable information of plaintiff protected from disclosure. Defines "individual" for purposes of statute laws of this state to include an infant born alive.
Read the full official title (28 words)
Requires health care practitioners to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion.
Every action
3 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateIntroduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
- CommitteeReferred to Health Care. · Senate Health Care
- SenateIn committee upon adjournment.
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it, joined by 5 cosponsors: 5 Republicans.
- KT Kim ThatcherR Primary sponsor · District 11
All 5 cosponsors
From Oregon's official records (api.oregonlegislature.gov), checked Nov 13, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.