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HB 4075
HB 4075 authorizes the State Treasurer to guarantee up to $44 million of a rural hospital stabilization loan by April 1, 2027, using funds from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund. The measure restricts loan use to cash shortages or refinancing, mandates annual financial reporting, and conditions the expenditure on a prior guarantee. If triggered, it diverts funds that would otherwise support public school distributions, creating an indeterminate but potentially long-term fiscal impact on education while providing immediate liquidity to a qualifying hospital.
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HB 4075 authorizes the State Treasurer to guarantee up to $44 million of a rural hospital stabilization loan by April 1, 2027, using funds from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund. The measure restricts loan use to cash shortages or refinancing, mandates annual financial reporting, and conditions the expenditure on a prior guarantee. If triggered, it diverts funds that would otherwise support public school distributions, creating an indeterminate but potentially long-term fiscal impact on education while providing immediate liquidity to a qualifying hospital.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Enrolled; Fiscal Impact Statement A
The Governor’s signing letter explicitly states the measure aims to maintain critical healthcare services in rural Southwest Oregon amid federal Medicaid policy uncertainty, and establishes expectations for financial accountability from Bay Area Hospital.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Governor HB 4075 signing letter — signing-letter
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The strict prohibition on using loan proceeds for capital improvements or service expansion, combined with the requirement for annual reporting to the State Treasurer, suggests a legislative strategy to provide immediate liquidity without authorizing long-term structural changes or direct appropriations, possibly to navigate constitutional funding constraints or political opposition.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Eligible for a state-guaranteed loan to address cash flow or refinance debt, but restricted from using funds for expansion or capital projects. Must submit annual reports on balance, repayment status, and financial standing.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Enrolled; Staff Measure Summary A
Face potential reduction in Common School Fund distributions if the State Treasurer holds up to $44 million in the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund instead of transferring it. Fiscal impact is indeterminate but projected to decrease annual transfers by approximately $1.5 million annually for the first two years, with cumulative reductions over a 20-year horizon.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; IS_Impact HB 4075 8
Bears administrative responsibility to evaluate loan eligibility, manage the guarantee contract, review annual reports, and potentially disburse up to $44 million in a default scenario. Legal costs are estimated at ~$25,000 for documentation review.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Enrolled
Dependent on the hospital’s continued operation for emergency care and local healthcare infrastructure; access is directly tied to the hospital’s ability to stabilize finances under this measure.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Governor HB 4075 signing letter — signing-letter; Staff Measure Summary A
Hospitals must secure a loan from a single lender or syndicate, fully amortized over ≤20 years, with a first-position lien on all real property and equipment. The guarantee terminates upon maturity, replacement, or full repayment. Annual reporting creates ongoing compliance obligations. The State Treasurer’s role is limited to guarantee administration; the measure does not constitute a state debt obligation. Emergency enactment accelerates implementation but leaves key variables (loan amount, interest rate, default risk) unaddressed, creating fiscal uncertainty for both healthcare operations and school funding formulas.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Enrolled; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Qualifying Rural Hospital & Local Community
The hospital successfully refinances high-interest debt at favorable terms, stabilizes cash flow without raising local taxes or cutting clinical staff, and maintains emergency department operations in Southwest Oregon for the full 20-year term.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Enrolled
Oregon Public Schools & State Treasury
The hospital defaults on the guaranteed loan; the State Treasurer is forced to draw the maximum $44 million from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund. This permanently reduces Common School Fund distributions by an estimated $19 million over 20 years plus ~$3.5 million in lost investment returns, with no statutory repayment or clawback mechanism specified for the diverted education funds.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Enrolled
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Sources · Enrolled; Governor HB 4075 signing letter — signing-letter
Immediate preservation of a critical rural healthcare facility is traded against potential long-term reduction in funding for public K-12 education. Upsides include preventing hospital closure, maintaining local emergency services, and avoiding immediate tax increases or service cuts. Downsides include diverting constitutionally dedicated school funds, creating indeterminate fiscal exposure for the state, and establishing a funding mechanism that could be replicated without legislative oversight.
Prevents hospital closure, maintains local emergency services, avoids immediate tax increases or service cuts.
Basis: Official analysis · Source: Governor HB 4075 signing letter — signing-letter
Diverts constitutionally dedicated school funds, creates indeterminate fiscal exposure for the state, establishes a funding mechanism that could be replicated without legislative oversight.
Basis: Official analysis · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Governor HB 4075 signing letter — signing-letter
The enrolled version is substantively identical to the House Amendments to Introduced version. The only structural change is the addition of an emergency declaration clause in Section 7, which accelerates the effective date to passage. All eligibility criteria, loan restrictions, reporting requirements, funding source limitations, and operative conditions remain unchanged.
Added emergency declaration clause (Section 7) accelerating effective date to passage.
Allows immediate implementation but does not alter substantive obligations or fiscal mechanics.
Sources · Enrolled; House Amendments to Introduced
Tradeoff: No material change in tradeoffs. Emergency enactment reduces implementation timeline but does not mitigate the underlying healthcare-versus-education funding tradeoff.
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in enrolled bill text, official revenue/fiscal statements, and gubernatorial signing letter. Indeterminate variables are explicitly noted as unknowns rather than findings. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
If adopted, the amendment would redirect $45 million from Oregon’s constitutionally protected Rainy Day Fund into a new Rural Hospital Guarantee Fund, authorizing the State Treasurer to guarantee a single rural hospital stabilization loan by April 1, 2027. The measure would impose strict eligibility requirements (publicly elected board, Medicare DRG reimbursement), limits loan use to cash flow or refinancing, mandates fully amortized repayment over up to 20 years, and explicitly states the guarantee does not constitute state debt. Potential effects could include a direct reduction in the Rainy Day Fund’s balance, potential downstream effects on school funding distributions if fund mechanics shift, and immediate liquidity access for qualifying hospitals while bypassing standard appropriations timelines via emergency enactment.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
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 appears designed to provide rapid, targeted liquidity to a specific financially distressed rural hospital while ensuring oversight through public governance and Medicare reimbursement criteria.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary; Staff Measure Summary A
Gain access to a state-backed loan guarantee for cash shortages or refinancing, but would have to comply with strict use restrictions, fully amortized repayment schedules, and annual financial reporting to the State Treasurer. Eligibility is narrowly constrained to hospitals governed by publicly elected boards that receive Medicare DRG reimbursement; this federal definition is incorporated into Oregon law solely to set eligibility thresholds, not to transfer regulatory authority.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Potential effect if enacted: Lose $45 million in reserve capacity immediately. Future excess fund balances may be redirected to the General Fund or back to the Rainy Day Fund only if its balance falls below 12.5% of prior biennium General Fund revenues, altering long-term economic stabilization capacity.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Indirect fiscal impact: shifting funds from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund (which historically supports school distributions) to the Rainy Day Fund may alter investment return streams and future Common School Fund allocations, though exact amounts remain indeterminate.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Would have to structure loans as single-lender/syndicate, first-lien secured instruments with commercially reasonable workout efforts before triggering the guarantee, and provide prompt default/modification notices to the State Treasurer.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Eligibility is narrowly constrained to hospitals governed by publicly elected boards that receive Medicare DRG reimbursement, excluding privately governed or non-DRG rural facilities.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Loan proceeds are legally restricted to cash flow management or refinancing; expansion, capital improvements, or operational scaling are prohibited.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: The State Treasurer assumes monitoring and guarantee obligations without a detailed default protocol beyond 'commercially reasonable efforts' that explicitly exclude foreclosure on hospital real property or equipment.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Emergency enactment triggers immediate effect upon passage, bypassing standard biennial budget deliberation and potentially limiting stakeholder review time.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Qualifying rural hospital & community
A qualifying rural hospital successfully refinances high-interest debt using the guarantee, would eliminate immediate cash shortages, maintains full clinical operations for 20 years, and preserves critical emergency and inpatient services for a remote community that would otherwise face closure.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
State fiscal reserves & taxpayers
Potential effect if enacted: The Rainy Day Fund balance drops below the constitutional 12.5% threshold during a subsequent economic downturn, forcing the General Fund to cover shortfalls or triggering mandatory tax increases; simultaneously, the guaranteed hospital defaults, and the State Treasurer’s inability to foreclose on real property delays resolution, leaving taxpayers exposed to prolonged fiscal liability despite the 'no state debt' clause.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
The text would legally permit guaranteeing loans strictly for cash shortages or refinancing. A potentially unlawful outcome could arise if weak enforcement would allow hospitals to misclassify capital expenditures as 'cash shortages,' effectively circumventing the prohibition on facility expansion. Additionally, duty creep may occur if the State Treasurer’s role would expand from passive guarantor to active debt manager without statutory authority to enforce workout plans or assess collateral value, creating unaccountable administrative burdens.
Sources · Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: The measure trades long-term fiscal resilience and constitutional Rainy Day Fund protections for immediate, targeted liquidity to prevent rural hospital closure. Upsides include preserved healthcare access and stabilized local economies; downsides include reduced economic stabilization reserves, potential indirect impacts on school funding streams, and reliance on untested guarantee mechanics without explicit default remedies.
Potential effect if enacted: Immediate liquidity prevents rural hospital insolvency and maintains critical healthcare infrastructure in underserved regions.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Staff Measure Summary
Potential effect if enacted: Strict loan terms (fully amortized, first-lien security, commercial workout requirements) limit moral hazard and align with standard secured lending practices.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Direct $45 million withdrawal from the Rainy Day Fund would reduce the state’s capacity to absorb future economic shocks without triggering General Fund drawdowns.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -A12 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Indeterminate fiscal impact and lack of detailed default protocols create uncertainty for school funding streams and state liability exposure.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied proposed amendment text and official legislative revenue/fiscal statements. No external speculation or unverified claims are included. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
The measure would authorize the State Treasurer to guarantee up to $44 million of a single rural hospital stabilization loan using funds from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund, provided the loan is executed by April 1, 2027. It would restrict eligibility to hospitals with publicly elected boards and Medicare DRG reimbursement, limits proceeds to cash flow management or debt refinancing, and explicitly states the guarantee does not constitute state debt. If triggered, it would divert unclaimed property funds from their standard investment path, potentially reducing future Common School Fund distributions to public schools.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: House Amendments to Introduced; Fiscal Impact Statement A
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 text restricts eligibility to hospitals with publicly elected boards and Medicare DRG reimbursement while capping usage on cash shortages or refinancing, suggesting a targeted intervention to stabilize financially distressed but structurally compliant rural hospitals without funding expansion.
Basis: Inferred · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Potential effect if enacted: Gain access to a state-backed loan guarantee for liquidity or refinancing, subject to strict covenants including first-position liens and annual financial reporting.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Potential effect if enacted: Face potential reduction in Common School Fund distributions if the $44 million reserve is held instead of transferred, as unclaimed property funds are constitutionally dedicated to schools.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: House Amendments to Introduced; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Potential effect if enacted: Assume administrative and legal oversight responsibilities for loan documentation, annual reporting review, and fund management without additional statutory appropriations.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Potential effect if enacted: Gain a state guarantee on qualifying loans, altering risk profiles but requiring compliance with notice and commercially reasonable effort requirements.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Hospitals would have to secure a single lender/syndicate, maintain first-position liens on all real property and equipment, and submit annual financial reports to the State Treasurer. The guarantee is strictly limited to liquidity or refinancing; capital improvements or service expansion are statutorily prohibited. Fiscal impact to schools is indeterminate but modeled as a temporary reduction in distributions if the full reserve is held. The measure would take effect immediately upon passage via emergency clause, creating a narrow window to finalize loan terms by April 1, 2027.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: House Amendments to Introduced; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Rural hospital and community
Potential effect if enacted: A financially distressed rural hospital successfully refinances high-interest debt at lower rates using the guarantee, avoids closure, and maintains critical emergency services for its community while repaying the loan over 20 years without triggering state liability.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Public school districts and state treasury
The guaranteed hospital defaults despite commercially reasonable efforts, forcing the State Treasurer to draw on the $44 million reserve. This permanently would reduce the principal available for school funding, resulting in long-term budget shortfalls for multiple rural school districts that rely on Common School Fund distributions.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: House Amendments to Introduced; Fiscal Impact Statement A
The text would legally permit guaranteeing loans for cash shortages or refinancing. A potential unlawful outcome could arise if a hospital misclassifies capital improvement expenses as cash shortages or if lenders structure transactions to circumvent the first-lien requirement, exploiting weak enforcement of the commercially reasonable effort clause.
Sources · House Amendments to Introduced
Potential effect if enacted: The measure trades a portion of constitutionally dedicated unclaimed property funds for immediate rural hospital liquidity at the cost of uncertain, potentially long-term reductions in public school financing.
Potential effect if enacted: Prevents potential rural hospital closures through targeted debt relief without adding to state debt.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Would provide immediate emergency stabilization via an expedited passage mechanism.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Would divert investment earnings from schools with indeterminate fiscal impact.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: House Amendments to Introduced; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Would create administrative burden for the State Treasurer.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Would lack post-closing use verification mechanisms.
Basis: Bill text · Source: House Amendments to Introduced
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the provided House Amendments to Introduced bill text and official Legislative Fiscal Office revenue impact statements. No external speculation or legislative intent assumptions are applied. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
If adopted, the amendment would authorize the State Treasurer to guarantee up to $44 million of a rural hospital stabilization loan using funds from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund, replacing the originally proposed direct lending mechanism. The measure would impose strict eligibility criteria, limits loan proceeds to cash shortages or debt refinancing, would require a first-position lien on hospital assets, mandates annual financial reporting, and explicitly states the guarantee does not constitute state debt. Potential effects could include redirected investment returns from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund away from the Common School Fund for up to 20 years, potential shortfalls in school district formula funding, and a conditional fiscal trigger that only activates if a qualifying loan is guaranteed by April 1, 2027.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
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 shifts from direct state lending to a limited guarantee with strict collateral and use restrictions, likely reflecting legislative intent to stabilize specific rural hospitals while capping fiscal exposure and avoiding direct state debt. The text replaces loan issuance with a guarantee mechanism, caps expenditure at $44 million, requires first-position liens, prohibits capital improvements, and explicitly disclaims state debt obligation.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Potential effect if enacted: Gain access to a guaranteed loan for cash shortages or refinancing, subject to strict asset liens, fully amortized repayment schedules, and annual financial reporting requirements.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Face potential reductions in Common School Fund distributions due to funds being held in reserve by the State Treasurer instead of transferred to schools, with indeterminate long-term revenue impact.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Would have to structure loans meeting specific amortization, lien, and notice requirements; gain state guarantee backing but would have to pursue commercially reasonable debt resolution before triggering the guarantee.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Assumes administrative and legal oversight responsibilities for loan documentation, annual reporting review, and potential payout from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Hospitals would have to secure a first-position lien on substantially all real property and equipment, maintain fully amortized repayment schedules, and submit annual financial reports. The State Treasurer would incur minimal implementation costs but faces indeterminate legal and workload risks if a default occurs. School districts may experience formula funding adjustments as the Common School Fund receives less revenue from investment returns while funds are reserved. The guarantee only activates if a loan is issued by April 1, 2027, creating a hard deadline for execution.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Qualifying rural hospital and local community
Potential effect if enacted: A qualifying rural hospital successfully refinances high-interest debt and stabilizes cash flow using the guarantee, avoiding closure and preserving emergency care access for a remote community while repaying the loan over 20 years with minimal disruption to school funding.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Oregon public schools and state treasury
Potential effect if enacted: The guaranteed hospital defaults, triggering the full $44 million payout from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund. Because the funds are held in reserve rather than invested in the Common School Fund, Oregon public schools lose approximately $19 million in cumulative transfers over 20 years, reducing per-pupil formula funding across multiple districts.
Basis: Bill text · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
The text would legally permit guaranteeing loans strictly for cash shortages or refinancing with full collateralization. Weak enforcement or misclassification could allow hospitals to divert funds toward capital improvements or operational expansion, violating the statutory use restriction. Duty creep risk exists if the State Treasurer interprets commercially reasonable efforts broadly to delay guarantee payouts, or if lenders restructure loans to bypass the single-lender requirement or lien priority rules.
Sources · Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: The measure trades a predictable, long-term reduction in Common School Fund revenue for public schools to provide immediate, collateral-backed financial stabilization for qualifying rural hospitals without increasing state debt.
Potential effect if enacted: Prevents rural hospital closures and preserves local healthcare access through targeted, short-term liquidity support.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Limits state fiscal exposure by structuring the intervention as a guarantee rather than direct borrowing, with a hard $44 million cap and explicit non-debt declaration.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Would divert investment returns from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund away from the Common School Fund, creating indeterminate but potentially significant long-term shortfalls in school district formula funding.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Would impose strict collateral and reporting requirements that may exclude financially distressed hospitals lacking sufficient real property or equipment to secure a first-position lien.
Basis: Bill text · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied proposed amendment text and official fiscal/staff summaries. No external speculation or unverified claims are included. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
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This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
The amendment would direct the State Treasurer to guarantee up to $44 million in rural hospital stabilization loans by April 1, 2027, using reserves from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund rather than issuing direct loans. Eligible hospitals would have to have publicly elected boards and receive DRG-based Medicare reimbursement; funds may only address cash shortages or refinance existing debt, explicitly prohibiting capital improvements or service expansion. If adopted, this would create a state-backed lending pathway that could preserve rural hospital operations but would hold back Unclaimed Property Fund assets, potentially reducing annual Common School Fund distributions to public schools by an estimated $1.5 million annually in early years, with total long-term school funding impacts remaining indeterminate due to unknown loan terms and default risks.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
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 text restricts eligibility to hospitals with publicly elected boards and DRG Medicare reimbursement while strictly limiting fund usage to cash shortages and refinancing, which suggests a targeted intervention designed to provide immediate liquidity to financially distressed rural facilities without funding long-term infrastructure or expansion.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Gain access to state-guaranteed financing for short-term liquidity or debt restructuring, subject to strict reporting, first-position lien, and fully amortized loan requirements.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Face potential reductions in Common School Fund distributions if the State Treasurer holds up to $44 million in reserve, though actual impacts depend on loan terms, repayment schedules, and investment return differentials.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Potential effect if enacted: Gain a secured lending opportunity with state backing, requiring compliance with commercial lien standards and prompt default or modification reporting to the State Treasurer.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Assume administrative oversight, legal review responsibilities (estimated at $25,000), and potential contractual liability up to $44 million if would guarantee are drawn upon.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Hospitals would have to secure a first-position lien on substantially all real property and equipment, maintain fully amortized loans without balloon payments, and submit annual financial reports to the State Treasurer. The guarantee terminates 30 days after maturity, upon loan replacement, or upon full repayment.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Enforcement relies on commercial contract terms rather than state regulatory oversight, with OST incurring minimal baseline costs but indeterminate legal expenses if defaults occur. School districts experience indirect fiscal effects through reduced Common School Fund transfers, with actual amounts depending on investment return differentials between the Oregon Short Term Fund and the Common School Fund.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Qualifying rural hospital
Potential effect if enacted: A qualifying hospital successfully refinances high-interest debt at favorable terms using the guarantee, stabilizes its cash flow, avoids closure, and repays the loan ahead of schedule, leaving the $44 million reserve largely intact and minimizing school funding impacts.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Oregon public school districts and State Treasury
Potential effect if enacted: The guaranteed hospital defaults despite commercial efforts, triggering the full $44 million state payout from the Unclaimed Property Fund; reduced Common School Fund transfers permanently lower per-pupil formula funding for multiple districts over decades, while OST bears prolonged legal and administrative costs managing the defaulted guarantee.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Potential effect if enacted: inference
Sources · Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: The measure trades potential short-term reductions in Common School Fund distributions for immediate liquidity that may prevent rural hospital closures.
Potential effect if enacted: Preserves critical rural healthcare access without creating direct state debt or general obligation bonds.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Would provide a structured, commercially secured financing pathway that would limit state exposure to the Unclaimed Property Fund reserve.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -5 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Holds back Unclaimed Property Fund assets, potentially reducing annual Common School Fund distributions to public schools by an estimated $1.5 million annually in early years.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Potential effect if enacted: Carries indeterminate default risk and relies on commercial contract enforcement rather than public oversight, leaving school funding impacts and OST legal costs uncertain.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the provided proposed amendment text and official legislative revenue/fiscal impact statements. Projections regarding school funding are explicitly noted as indeterminate by the Legislative Revenue Office and depend on variables not yet established. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
If adopted, HB 4075-2 would replace the original rural hospital loan program with a temporary mandate requiring the Oregon Health Authority and all coordinated care organizations to reimburse Bay Area Hospital at rates no less than 130% of its pre-enactment levels for inpatient and outpatient services. The provision includes automatic annual percentage increases tied to other hospitals' rate adjustments, would apply to contracts entered or renewed on or after enactment, and would expire on July 1, 2027.
Basis: Stakeholder claim · Sources: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
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 targets a single health district hospital and mandates a steep, automatic rate floor with escalators, indicating a legislative response to acute financial distress or imminent operational risk at that specific facility.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Potential effect if enacted: Receives guaranteed minimum reimbursement rates 30% above pre-enactment levels, with automatic annual escalators tied to other hospitals' rate changes, providing immediate revenue growth but facing a hard sunset date.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Would have to adjust state medical assistance program reimbursement schedules for this hospital and apply equivalent percentage increases whenever other hospitals' rates are raised, creating open-ended cost obligations.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Legally required to reimburse Bay Area Hospital at the mandated rates regardless of existing contracts or negotiated terms, overriding standard rate-setting flexibility and potentially disrupting regional cost-containment strategies.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Bear the cost of higher reimbursement rates, which may be passed through to premiums, taxes, or allocated funds, with no explicit appropriation mechanism outlined in the amendment.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
OHA and CCOs would have to recalculate rate schedules and amend or renew contracts to comply with the 130% floor and automatic escalators, requiring administrative adjustments to contract compliance monitoring.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Bay Area Hospital gains immediate, predictable revenue growth but faces a cliff effect if long-term financial restructuring is not completed before the July 1, 2027 expiration.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: CCOs lose rate-setting flexibility for this provider, potentially disrupting regional cost-containment strategies and requiring reallocation of medical assistance funds.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Bay Area Hospital and southern Oregon residents
Potential effect if enacted: The hospital secures sufficient revenue to stabilize operations and retain clinical staff during a critical period, preventing an immediate loss of healthcare access until the sunset date.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
CCOs, OHA, and state medical assistance budgets
Potential effect if enacted: Uncompensated cost burdens trigger premium spikes or require reallocation of medical assistance funds, while the hospital fails to implement long-term financial reforms before the July 2027 expiration, resulting in a sudden service disruption and stranded rate adjustments.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: inference
Sources · Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
The measure trades long-term, system-wide rate-setting flexibility and fiscal predictability for immediate, targeted financial relief to a single hospital, risking premium or budget pressures while providing a temporary lifeline. Upsides: Prevents immediate closure or service disruption at Bay Area Hospital. Downsides: Distorts regional reimbursement markets, would impose open-ended cost escalators on OHA and CCOs, and would create a hard sunset cliff without guaranteed long-term solvency.
Potential effect if enacted: Prevents immediate closure or service disruption at Bay Area Hospital.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Distorts regional reimbursement markets, would impose open-ended cost escalators on OHA and CCOs, and would create a hard sunset cliff without guaranteed long-term solvency.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Model self-rating: high. The amendment text explicitly defines the scope, rates, duration, and affected entities. Fiscal impact statements provided in the record address the original loan program, not this amendment, confirming the need for targeted analysis. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
The amendment would legally require the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to pay Bay Area Hospital at least 130% of its pre-enactment reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient services, with automatic matching of future rate increases for other hospitals. This would create a guaranteed revenue floor for the hospital but would impose higher costs on state Medicaid programs and CCOs.
Basis: Stakeholder claim · 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 text's explicit focus on a single named hospital, its 130% rate floor, and automatic matching mechanism suggests an intent to stabilize a specific facility's finances by guaranteeing above-market reimbursement rates.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Receives guaranteed minimum reimbursement rates, reducing financial volatility and potentially improving cash flow for inpatient and outpatient services.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Bear the cost of paying 130% of baseline rates plus automatic matching increases for this specific hospital, increasing Medicaid and managed care expenditures.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: may face competitive reimbursement disparities if they do not receive similar rate floors, potentially affecting their financial viability relative to Bay Area Hospital.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary A
Potential effect if enacted: Indirectly affected if increased state healthcare costs trigger budget reallocations or reduce Common School Fund distributions, though the amendment itself does not directly alter school funding mechanics.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Fiscal Impact Statement A
OHA and CCOs would have to adjust payment contracts to meet the 130% floor and track equivalent percentage increases for other hospitals, requiring accounting adjustments and contract amendments.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Patients at Bay Area Hospital may experience improved financial stability of the facility, potentially preserving local access to inpatient and outpatient care.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The automatic matching provision would require continuous monitoring of state rate changes for other hospitals to ensure compliance.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Bay Area Hospital and local community
Potential effect if enacted: Bay Area Hospital secures sufficient revenue to avoid closure, maintains full service capacity, and stabilizes local healthcare access during a financial crisis.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
State Medicaid budget and CCO enrollees
If service volumes surge or baseline rates are low, the 130% floor plus matching increases could strain CCO/Medicaid budgets significantly, potentially forcing premium increases for enrollees or diverting funds from other rural hospitals.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Potential effect if enacted: The text does not define audit mechanisms or penalty structures for rate disputes, creating ambiguity in enforcement.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Would guarantee Bay Area Hospital financial stability through above-market reimbursement rates in exchange for increased Medicaid and CCO costs that may reduce funding flexibility for other rural health facilities.
Potential effect if enacted: Immediate revenue certainty and potential preservation of local hospital services.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Fiscal burden on state and CCO budgets, potential market distortion for competing hospitals, and lack of performance-based conditions tied to the rate floor.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied amendment text and official legislative revenue/fiscal documents. No external speculation is included. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
The amendment would replace the bill’s proposed general rural hospital loan program with a single-hospital mandate that would guarantee Bay Area Hospital a minimum reimbursement rate of 130% of its pre-enactment rate, forces coordinated care organizations to pay those rates regardless of existing contracts, would require matching percentage increases whenever state hospital rates rise, and would automatically expire on July 1, 2027. Potential effects could include immediate, contractually binding rate increases for one facility, mandatory budget reallocation by regional health insurers, and a temporary financial lifeline that ends without extension or replacement funding.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — 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 text targets a specific facility with a fixed-rate floor and a two-year sunset, suggesting an intent to provide immediate, time-limited rate stabilization to prevent operational disruption while longer-term financing or structural solutions are developed.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Receives guaranteed minimum reimbursement rates that exceed current levels, with automatic annual adjustments tied to state-wide rate changes.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Would have to contractually accept the mandated rates for all qualifying services provided to their members, overriding existing reimbursement agreements and increasing operational costs.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Bears administrative responsibility for tracking rate increases for other hospitals and calculating equivalent percentage adjustments to apply to Bay Area Hospital’s rates.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Face potential shifts in local healthcare financing, as CCO cost increases may trigger premium adjustments or benefit reallocations, while hospital access may stabilize temporarily under the rate floor.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Staff Measure Summary A; Staff Measure Summary A
CCOs would have to amend or renegotiate provider contracts to comply with the new rate floor and matching increase mechanism, creating administrative and legal compliance workloads.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
The measure would impose direct cost increases on CCOs without specifying offsetting revenue mechanisms, while eligibility for the higher rates is strictly limited to services rendered by Bay Area Hospital under its health district charter.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
OHA and CCOs would have to monitor service equivalency to ensure compliant billing; patients may experience short-term access continuity but face long-term uncertainty once the sunset provision would expire.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Bay Area Hospital
Potential effect if enacted: Avoids immediate insolvency, retains all clinical staff and emergency services, and uses the stabilized revenue to negotiate a sustainable long-term financing arrangement before the July 2027 sunset.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
CCOs and Southern Coast residents
Potential effect if enacted: Absorb unsustainable rate increases that trigger significant member premium hikes or benefit reductions across the region, while Bay Area Hospital delays necessary operational restructuring, leaving it financially vulnerable immediately after the repeal date.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
The text would legally permit a targeted rate mandate for one specific hospital operating under a health district charter. Weak enforcement or misclassification could allow other facilities to claim 'equivalent services' status to demand similar rate floors, creating duty creep that would expand budgetary obligations beyond the statute’s explicit single-hospital scope and potentially violates existing CCO contracting authorities.
Sources · Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
The measure trades broad, long-term rural hospital financing for immediate, targeted rate stabilization that would guarantee short-term operational continuity at the expense of regional insurer costs and post-sunset uncertainty. Upsides include providing immediate, predictable revenue to a specific facility, reducing administrative complexity by avoiding a multi-hospital loan program, and including a built-in expiration to limit long-term fiscal exposure. Downsides include forcing mandatory rate increases on CCOs without offsetting funding, creating a temporary financial dependency that may delay necessary structural reforms, and leaving the hospital’s long-term viability unaddressed after the sunset date.
Would provide immediate, predictable revenue to a specific facility, would reduce administrative complexity by avoiding a multi-hospital loan program, and includes a built-in expiration to limit long-term fiscal exposure.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment
Forces mandatory rate increases on CCOs without offsetting funding, would create a temporary financial dependency that may delay necessary structural reforms, and leaves the hospital’s long-term viability unaddressed after the sunset date.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -2 — proposed amendment; Fiscal Impact Statement A
Model self-rating: high. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied amendment text and official legislative summaries. No external speculation or unverified claims are included. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
This proposal has not become law. The generated effects below describe what it would require if enacted.
The proposed amendment would statutorily mandate that the Oregon Health Authority and all coordinated care organizations pay the Bay Area Hospital a minimum reimbursement rate of 130 percent of its pre-enactment baseline, with automatic matching of future rate increases for other hospitals. This would create a temporary, facility-specific pricing floor that would guarantee short-term revenue stability but overrides standard contracting authority and shifts cost burdens to public health programs until July 1, 2027.
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 appears designed to provide immediate, targeted financial relief to a single struggling facility without direct legislative appropriation. By setting a temporary rate floor and automatic escalation clause, it aims to stabilize cash flow quickly while forcing a market-based or structural resolution before the July 2027 expiration.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Receives a legally guaranteed minimum reimbursement rate of 130% of its pre-act baseline, plus automatic matching of future rate increases for other hospitals, directly improving near-term cash flow and operational stability through July 2027.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Legally bound to apply the mandated rate floor and matching increases to its Medicaid/state program reimbursements for this hospital, creating a fixed, non-negotiable expenditure increase.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Statutorily compelled to pay the mandated rates regardless of standard contracting negotiations or actuarial risk models, reducing their pricing flexibility and potentially increasing member premiums or reserve requirements.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Indirectly affected if OHA/CCO cost increases trigger broader budget reallocations or interact with the Unclaimed Property Fund dynamics established in the main bill, though the amendment itself does not directly alter school funding mechanisms.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary
The hospital may delay comprehensive financial restructuring or debt renegotiation by relying on the statutory rate floor. CCOs and OHA lose standard contracting leverage for this provider, potentially requiring contract amendments or rate adjustments across other services to offset costs. The July 2027 repeal would create a cliff-edge obligation, meaning long-term viability would depend on post-sunset market conditions rather than continued legislative support.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary
Bay Area Hospital and Southern Coast Community
Potential effect if enacted: The hospital successfully uses the stabilized revenue period to restructure debt, secure alternative funding, or transition to a sustainable operational model, permanently preserving acute care access on Oregon’s southern coast without further state intervention.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
CCOs, OHA, and Other Rural Hospitals
The rate floor forces CCOs and OHA to pay above-market rates for two years, draining program funds that could support other rural hospitals, while the hospital fails to address structural deficits. When the mandate would expire in July 2027, the facility faces a sharper financial collapse due to delayed reforms and lost market competitiveness.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The statutory override of contracting authority would create structural pressure that could be exploited to cross-subsidize costs or delay necessary market corrections.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Potential effect if enacted: The measure trades long-term market-based contracting flexibility and equitable cost distribution for short-term, guaranteed financial relief for a single facility to prevent immediate service disruption. Upsides include immediate revenue stabilization and preserved local health access; downsides include statutory rate distortion, potential cross-subsidization burdens on CCOs/state programs, and cliff-edge dependency without structural reform.
Potential effect if enacted: Immediate cash flow stabilization prevents abrupt service reductions or closure.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Automatic rate matching protects the hospital from future reimbursement cuts while preserving access to essential coastal care.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Potential effect if enacted: Overrides standard CCO contracting authority, potentially distorting regional health care pricing models.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Would create a fixed expenditure obligation for OHA and CCOs with no corresponding revenue increase, potentially straining public health budgets.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The July 2027 sunset would create a cliff-edge risk if long-term financial viability is not achieved during the protected period.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Model self-rating: high. The amendment text is explicit regarding rate floors, matching clauses, and expiration dates. Fiscal impacts are partially documented but remain indeterminate due to unknown baseline rates and contracting variables. This is the model’s assessment of its own analysis, not independent verification or human review.
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AI-assessed adopted replacement
The adopted amendment deletes and replaces the substantive direct-lending program with a guarantee mechanism. Both versions aim to stabilize rural-hospital finances, so the policy purpose remains the same.
AI assessment dated 2026-09-29. This classification is separate from enactment and legal effect.
Evidence snapshot: 2026-09-29. Later legislative records are not automatically reassessed.
Policy purpose: uncertain.
Reviewer: /root/review_recent_a · 2026-09-29
AI-assessed adopted replacement
The adopted amendment deletes and replaces the substantive direct-lending program with a guarantee mechanism. Both versions aim to stabilize rural-hospital finances, so the policy purpose remains the same.
Policy purpose: broadly retained.
“SECTION 1. (1) The State Treasurer may use up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property 6 and Estates Fund established under ORS 98.389 to issue rural hospital stabilization loans 7 under this section. 8 (2) Rural hospital stabilization loans are available only to hospitals that”
Introduced
“SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2026 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 285A. 5 SECTION 2. (1) On or before April 1, 2027, the State Treasurer shall guarantee an eligible 6 rural hospital stabilization loan under this section. 7 (2) A rural hospital stabilization loan”
A-Engrossed
Reviewer: /root/review_recent_b · 2026-09-29
AI-assessed adopted replacement
The adopted -8 amendment deletes the direct state lending program and substitutes a state loan guarantee. Both target rural hospitals, but the operative financial instrument and state obligation are replaced.
Policy purpose: substantially changed.
“SECTION 1. (1) The State Treasurer may use up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property 6 and Estates Fund established under ORS 98.389 to issue rural hospital stabilization loans 7 under this section. 8 (2) Rural hospital stabilization loans are available only to hospitals that: 9 (a) Are rural h”
Introduced
“SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2026 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 285A. 5 SECTION 2. (1) On or before April 1, 2027, the State Treasurer shall guarantee an eligible 6 rural hospital stabilization loan under this section. 7 (2) A rural hospital stabilization loan that is eligible to”
A-Engrossed
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Chief sponsors: Representative Boomer Wright, Senator David Brock Smith, Representative Cyrus Javadi, Representative Court Boice
Regular sponsors: Representative Jeffrey Helfrich, Representative Kevin Mannix, Representative Virgle Osborne, Representative Anna Scharf, Senator Suzanne Weber, Representative Darcey Edwards, Representative Lesly Muñoz, Representative Travis Nelson, Representative Emily McIntire, Representative E. Werner Reschke, Representative Rob Nosse, Representative Hai Pham, Representative Bobby Levy, Representative Daniel Nguyen, Representative Paul Evans
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Representative Boomer Wright
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Chapter 111, (2026 Laws): Effective date April 7, 2026.
Governor signed.
Governor issued signing letter
President signed.
Speaker signed.
Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Smith DB. Passed.
Ayes, 16; Nays, 12--Campos, Frederick, Gelser Blouin, Girod, Golden, Lieber, Linthicum, Neron Misslin, Pham, Robinson, Sollman, Taylor; Excused, 2--Hayden, Thatcher.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill.
Staff Measure Summary · Version A
Referred to Ways and Means.
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
Vote explanation(s) filed by Andersen, Chaichi, Nathanson.
Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Wright, Nosse. Passed.
Ayes, 42; Nays, 15--Andersen, Chotzen, Dobson, Fragala, Gomberg, Grayber, Hudson, Kropf, Marsh, McLain, Nathanson, Rieke Smith, Sanchez, Sosa, Tran; Excused, 3--Hartman, Levy B, Valderrama.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass.
Staff Measure Summary · Version A
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 3 · Room HR 40 · Relating to hospital finance (Senator Brock Smith, carrier)
Returned to Full Committee.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 2 · Room HR F · Relating to hospital finance
Amendment -A12 proposed
Proposed
Work Session
Not Heard · Agenda item 4 · Room HR F · Relating to hospital finance
Assigned to Subcommittee On Capital Construction.
House Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker.
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means.
Staff Measure Summary · Version A
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 3 · Room HR 40 · Authorizes the State Treasurer to loan up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to rural hospitals for financial stabilization.
IS_Impact HB 4075 8
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -5 proposed
Amendment -8 adopted
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 1 · Room HR 50 · Authorizes the State Treasurer to loan up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to rural hospitals for financial stabilization.
IS_Impact HB 4075 5
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -5 proposed
Referred to Rules by order of Speaker.
Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Rules.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 4 · Room HR 60 · Authorizes the State Treasurer to loan up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to rural hospitals for financial stabilization.
IS_Impact HB 4075 INTRO
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -2 proposed
Amendment -1 proposed
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 4 · Room HR 60 · Authorizes the State Treasurer to loan up to 20 percent of the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to rural hospitals for financial stabilization.
Amendment -2 proposed
Amendment -1 proposed
Referred to Health Care.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
Source title: Requires the State Treasurer to use up to $44 million from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to guarantee a loan made to a rural hospital for financial stabilization.This source title may describe an earlier version. Read the current brief and version history above.
“Chapter 111, (2026 Laws): Effective date April 7, 2026.”
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