Senate Bill 426

Establishes Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires Governor to appoint members of board for four-year terms. Authorizes board to contract for health and dental benefit plans and other benefits for employees of certain school districts, education service districts and community college districts. Requires board to adopt rules. Permits payroll officers to deduct amounts for benefit plans from employee wages. Creates Oregon Educators Benefit Account and Oregon Educators Revolving Fund. Requires amount not to exceed two percent of monthly employer and employee contributions for benefit plans to be deposited in account. Appropriates to board moneys to cover administrative expenses. Prohibits districts, on or after October 1, 2008, from offering benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by board. Provides exceptions. Requires board, before October 1, 2008, to enter into contracts for health and dental benefit plans. Requires board to offer range of benefit plan designs sufficient to ensure that, when benefit plans are first provided to district, district and district employees can choose benefit plans that are comparable in design to, and are not more expensive than comparable costs of, benefit plans provided by district immediately before purchase of benefit plans provided by board. Creates Task Force on <i>Teacher</i>] <b>Educator</b> Health Benefits. Requires task force to report to legislative interim committee no later than October 1, 2012. Appropriates contributed moneys to task force for purposes of carrying out duties of task force. <b>Adjusts appropriations and expenditure limitations of Department of Education and Oregon Department of Administrative Services for biennium ending June 30, 2007, for purposes of Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for purposes of board. Limits expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by Oregon Department of Administrative Services for biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for purposes of board.</b> Declares emergency, effective <i>July 1, 2007</i>]<b> on passage</b>.

In the Senate

• Ryan Deckert

  Sponsor

• Ways and Means11–18

  Mar 8 · 1 present

• Senate, third reading18–11

  Passed · Mar 8 · 1 present

• House of Representatives, third reading36–20

  Passed · Mar 13 · 4 present

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Feb 2

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Mar 2

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In the Senate Jan 22 – Mar 8

1. Jan 22Introduced
2. Jan 29Sent to Education and General Government
3. Feb 1Heard in Education and General Government
4. Feb 2Education and General Government recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
5. Sent to Ways and Means
6. Feb 12Sent to Education Subcommittee
7. Feb 15Heard in Education Subcommittee
8. Feb 20Heard in Education Subcommittee
9. Returned to Ways and Means
10. Feb 23Heard in Ways and Means
11. Mar 2Ways and Means recommended it as amended
12. Mar 5Read a second time
13. Mar 8Passed the Senate, 18 to 11

In the House of Representatives Mar 8 – Mar 13

1. Mar 8Arrived in the House of Representatives
2. Sent to Ways and Means
3. Mar 9Ways and Means recommended it
4. Mar 12Read a second time
5. Mar 13Passed the House of Representatives, 36 to 20

To the Governor Mar 15 – Mar 23

1. Mar 15Signed in the Senate
2. Mar 16Signed in the House of Representatives
3. Mar 21Signed by the Governor
4. Mar 23Became chapter 7 of Oregon Laws 2007
5. In force from March 21, 2007