HB 4142
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HB 4142 expands Oregon's qualifying conditions for medical marijuana to include the need for hospice, palliative care, comfort care, or comprehensive pain management. It requires designated residential facilities and hospice organizations to allow on-site medical marijuana use by eligible patients, adopt written handling policies, and train direct care staff, while explicitly exempting hospitals, hospital-affiliated clinics, home health agencies, and home-based hospice programs. The measure also protects nurses from disciplinary action for discussing medical marijuana with patients and sets a transition period through December 2027.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The addition of 'the need for hospice, palliative care, comfort care or other symptom management, including comprehensive pain management' as a qualifying condition suggests an intent to broaden eligibility for patients whose primary clinical need is symptom relief in end-of-life or palliative contexts, who may not meet the specific diagnostic criteria (e.g., cancer, HIV/AIDS, PTSD) previously required.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Gain eligibility for medical marijuana and the right to use it on-site in designated residential facilities if they hold a registry identification card or have applied within 35 days.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Must allow on-site medical marijuana use, create written policies for procurement/storage/administration/disposal, and ensure direct care staff complete specific educational training. Non-compliance risks removal of designation.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Explicitly exempt from the new mandates to allow on-site use, create policies, and train staff.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Exempt from the new mandates to allow on-site use, create policies, and train staff.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Must complete educational training covering cannabis pharmacology, dosing strategies, delivery modalities, and contraindications prior to providing direct care to eligible patients.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Protected from civil penalties or disciplinary action by the Oregon State Board of Nursing for discussing medical marijuana with patients.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Gains authority to conditionally designate organizations, require marijuana grow site registrations, conduct inspections, and enforce compliance with new requirements.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Affected facilities must develop written policies and make training available within six months of the operative date (January 1, 2027), with full training completion required by December 31, 2027.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Patients must hold a registry identification card or have applied within 35 days to engage in on-site medical use.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
State fiscal impact is minimal; implementation costs for policy development and staff training fall on affected facilities.
Basis: Stakeholder claim · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Facilities that fail to meet policy or training deadlines risk removal of their designation as an additional caregiver, potentially disrupting patient access.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Patient with comprehensive pain management needs lacking specific diagnostic criteria
A resident requiring comprehensive pain management who does not have a qualifying diagnosis like cancer or PTSD gains immediate eligibility for medical marijuana and can receive it on-site in a residential facility, improving comfort and eliminating transport risks.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Residential facility with compliance failures
A facility fails to implement required training protocols by December 2027, loses its designation, and abruptly cuts off access to medical marijuana for long-term residents who rely on it for symptom management, potentially causing unmanaged pain or withdrawal.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The distinction between mandated training and potential failure to enforce it creates risk; the text permits use but relies on compliance mechanisms that may be circumvented by misclassification.
Sources · Enrolled
The measure prioritizes patient access and autonomy for palliative and pain management needs in residential settings by mandating facility compliance, while explicitly excluding hospitals and home-based providers from these requirements to balance operational burdens across the care continuum.
Expands eligibility for patients needing symptom management who previously lacked qualifying conditions.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Standardizes staff training and facility policies for handling medical marijuana in residential settings.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Protects nurses from disciplinary action for discussing medical marijuana, facilitating open patient-provider communication.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Imposes mandatory policy creation and training obligations on residential facilities, creating administrative and operational burdens.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Non-compliant facilities risk loss of designation, which could disrupt patient access and create instability.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
Exemptions for hospitals and home-based providers may create inconsistent standards of care across different settings.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Enrolled
The enrolled version retains the core provisions of the House Amendment version, including the expansion of qualifying conditions, facility mandates, and nurse protections. Key changes include formalizing the measure as 'Ryan's Law', clarifying patient eligibility requirements (registry cardholder or receipt within 35 days), specifying exemptions for hospitals and home-based providers, and adding detailed transition deadlines for policies and training. The enrolled version also includes additional provisions regarding marijuana grow site registration, property rights, and criminal records checks.
Adds explicit requirement that patients must be registry identification cardholders or have applied within 35 days to use on-site.
Clarifies patient eligibility criteria for on-site use.
Sources · Enrolled
Specifies transition deadlines: written policies required by June 30, 2027, and training available by December 31, 2027.
Provides facilities with a defined timeline for compliance.
Sources · Enrolled
Adds detailed provisions for marijuana grow site registration, including criminal records checks, property rights, and transfer requirements.
Expands regulatory framework for production associated with medical use.
Sources · Enrolled
Names the measure 'Ryan's Law' and includes provisions for conditional designation by the Oregon Health Authority.
Formalizes the measure's title and allows pre-operative designations.
Sources · Enrolled
Tradeoff: The enrolled version maintains the tradeoff of expanding access against facility burdens but adds clearer compliance timelines and regulatory details for production, reducing ambiguity while increasing operational requirements.
high confidence. The enrolled bill text provides clear provisions regarding eligibility expansion, facility mandates, exemptions, and transition periods. Supporting sources confirm minimal fiscal impact and staff summaries align with the text.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
If adopted, the amendment would require patients or residents in designated hospice, palliative, home health, or residential care facilities to hold a valid Oregon Medical Marijuana Program registry identification card or possess an application receipt issued within the preceding 35 days before using medical marijuana on-site. It also clarifies that facility policy and training obligations apply exclusively to entities formally designated as additional caregivers under state law and restricts staff training requirements to employees of those specific facilities.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment likely aims to prevent unauthorized or unverified marijuana use in care settings by requiring documented proof of application status, while clarifying that regulatory burdens apply strictly to properly designated entities and their direct employees.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must obtain a registry identification card or submit an application and carry proof of receipt to legally use medical marijuana on-site. May experience temporary access gaps if state processing exceeds the 35-day window.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must implement intake verification procedures to confirm card status or valid application receipts before permitting on-site use. Regulatory duties, policy creation, and training requirements apply only to formally designated entities and their direct employees.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must process registry applications and issue receipts efficiently to avoid creating de facto barriers to medical marijuana access for vulnerable populations.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Behavior: Facilities will need to establish verification protocols at admission or during care transitions to confirm patient eligibility before allowing on-site use.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Obligations: Designated entities must maintain written policies and ensure direct care staff complete training prior to providing care to patients using medical marijuana.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Costs: Official sources indicate minimal fiscal impact, but facilities will incur administrative costs for tracking verification documents and managing compliance workflows.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Revenue Impact Statement INTRO; Fiscal Impact Statement INTRO
Eligibility/Access: Patients without cards or valid receipts within the 35-day window lose legal on-site access, potentially disrupting symptom management during application processing.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Enforcement/Risk: Facilities bear responsibility for verifying status; misclassification of patient eligibility could expose facilities to policy violations or liability.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Care facility administration
A facility successfully prevents a resident from using marijuana on-site who had not applied, avoiding potential liability or policy violations while ensuring all users are formally recognized by the state program.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Terminally ill hospice patient
A terminally ill hospice patient submits an application but faces a 40-day processing delay; under the amendment, they lose legal on-site access to medical marijuana for symptom management during their final days, despite having applied in good faith.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The amendment's reliance on a narrow 35-day receipt window and facility-level verification creates opportunities for discretionary denial or scope creep beyond the statutory designation requirement.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The amendment balances facility safety and regulatory clarity against patient access by requiring proof of application status for on-site use. Upsides include reduced unverified use in care settings and clearer compliance boundaries. Downsides include administrative friction and potential temporary access gaps for vulnerable patients during state processing delays.
Reduces risk of unverified or unauthorized marijuana use in residential and care settings.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Clarifies that policy creation, training, and criminal exemptions apply strictly to formally designated entities and their direct staff, limiting regulatory overreach.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Creates administrative friction and potential temporary access gaps for vulnerable patients during state processing delays.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Shifts verification burden to facilities without providing standardized tracking tools, increasing compliance complexity.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded in the explicit text of the proposed amendment and official legislative revenue/fiscal statements. Inferences regarding administrative burden and access gaps are bounded by the statutory language and standard regulatory implementation patterns.
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Posted Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM PST
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Chief sponsors: Representative Farrah Chaichi, Representative Thuy Tran, Senator Floyd Prozanski
Regular sponsors: Representative Willy Chotzen, Representative Paul Evans, Representative Mark Gamba, Representative Dacia Grayber, Representative Zach Hudson, Representative Cyrus Javadi, Representative Bobby Levy, Representative John Lively, Representative Sarah McDonald, Representative Lesly Muñoz, Representative Rob Nosse, Representative Hai Pham, Representative Sue Rieke Smith, Representative Lamar Wise, Senator Lew Frederick, Representative Ed Diehl, Representative Shannon Isadore, Senator James Manning Jr.
House carrier
Representative Farrah Chaichi
Third Reading Of House Bills · Version A
Senate carrier
Senator Floyd Prozanski
Third Reading Of House Measures · Version A
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Chapter 118, (2026 Laws): Effective date June 5, 2026.
Governor signed.
President signed.
Speaker signed.
Third reading. Carried by Prozanski. Passed.
Ayes, 20; Nays, 8--Girod, Linthicum, Nash, Robinson, Smith DB, Starr, Thatcher, Weber; Excused, 2--Drazan, Hayden.
Carried over to 03-05 by unanimous consent.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill.
Public Hearing and Work Session held.
IS_Impact HB 4142 A
Revenue Impact Statement
IS_Impact HB 4142 A
Revenue Impact Statement
Referred to Health Care.
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Chaichi. Passed.
Ayes, 39; Nays, 3--Cate, Harbick, Reschke; Excused, 18--Boice, Boshart Davis, Breese-Iverson, Diehl, Hartman, Helfrich, Levy B, Lewis, Lively, Nelson, Osborne, Skarlatos, Tran, Valderrama, Wallan, Watanabe, Wright, Yunker.
Rules suspended. Carried over to February 20, 2026 Calendar.
Rules suspended. Carried over to February 19, 2026 Calendar.
Second reading.
House Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed A-Engrossed.
Work Session held.
IS_Impact HB 4142 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -1 adopted
Public Hearing held.
Referred to Health Care.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
ary 2024, 47 states and Washington, DC, allow for the medical use of marijuana. House Bill 3214 (2025) proposed similar provisions but was not enacted. This Summary has not b
ary 2024, 47 states and Washington, DC, allow for the medical use of marijuana. House Bill 3214 (2025) proposed similar provisions but was not enacted. This Summary has not b
“Digest: The Act says that some entities have to write a policy and teach their staff about the medical use of marijuana. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Expands the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the medical use of marijuana. Requires an organization or residential facility that is designated as an additional caregiver for a medical marijuana cardholder to create and maintain a written policy and provide educational training for certain staff regarding the medical use of marijuana. Exempts hospitals and hospital-affiliated clinics from the requirements. Requires that in order to engage in the medical use of marijuana, the patient or resident of the organization or residential facility must be a medical marijuana cardholder or have applied to be a medical marijuana cardholder. Protects an organization or residential facility [ and its employees and contractors ] from certain criminal liability related to the medical use of marijuana. Prohibits the Oregon State Board of Nursing from taking disciplinary action against a nurse for discussing the medical use of marijuana with a patient. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.”
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