Communicable Disease Rules and Reporting

Recently Filed Rulemakings

Proposed amendments to OAR 333-018-0015, 0016: Updates list of select biological agents and toxins with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) select agent lists; clarify reporting requirements for toxigenic diphtheria, brucellosis, arthropod vector‑borne infections and conditions, and non‑respiratory nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM); and streamline COVID-19 requirements by maintaining reportability of COVID-19 pediatric deaths and multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), while removing requirements for test results, cases, and adult deaths, which are no longer needed since COVID-19 is no longer a generally reportable disease in Oregon. 

You are invited to review and comment on the proposed rules. There are two (2) options to provide comment:

1)  You may provide oral (spoken) testimony during a public hearing scheduled on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time via video/phone conference using Microsoft Teams.

• To provide oral testimony during this hearing:

• Join using the Meeting URL. You can also find the join link for the meeting in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under “Remote Meeting Details" using the “Meeting URL."
• You may also contact the Public Health Division Rules Coordinator at publichealth.rules@odhsoha.oregon.gov to sign-up to give oral testimony and receive the link for the Microsoft Teams video conference via calendar appointment.
• To join the hearing via phone (audio/listen only), you may dial 971-277-2343, phone conference ID 114 529 614#

 

2)  Written comments may be submitted before 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time on March 10, 2026:

• Email comments to: publichealth.rules@odhsoha.oregon.gov
• Mail comments* to:  
  
  OHA - Public Health Division
  Brittany Hall, Administrative Rules Coordinator
  800 NE Oregon St. Suite 930
  Portland, OR 97232
  
  *Comments sent by regular mail must be postmarked by 5:00 P.M. Pacific Time on March 10, 2026.
  
  
• Send comments by fax to 971-673-1299
  
  Final rules will be filed after consideration of all comments.
  
  For more information, please review the documents below.
  

• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (pdf)
  
• Notification Memo to Interested Parties (pdf)
  
• RAC Meeting Minutes (pdf)
  

OAR chapter 333, division 56: Updates to rules permitting human pathological waste removal from a health care facility (SB 189, 2023).  (Effective March 22, 2024)

• Permanent Administrative Order (pdf)
  
• Permanent Administrative Order with Tracked Changes (pdf)
  

OAR 333-017, 018, 019, 056: Updates to reportable diseases; clarification and rules regarding infectious waste. (Effective October 26, 2023)

• Permanent Administrative Order (pdf)

OAR 333-018-0016, 333-019-1010, 333-019-1030: Repeal of some COVID-19 reporting requirements and of COVID-19 vaccination requirements in healthcare and schools  (Effective: June 30, 2023)

• Permanent Administrative Order (pdf) 

Reporting Posters and Webpage

While we are developing our reporting poster and webpages please view the Secretary of State administrative rule page which is the definitive source of disease reporting in Oregon.  Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the posters.

• https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=306679