l9n/ Oregon

2013 Regular Session

House Bill 3420

Requires Oregon Health Authority to investigate possibility of receiving federal approval to implement copayments or other mechanisms to encourage medical assistance recipients to take personal responsibility for their own health and health care.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Health Care Committee on July 8, 2013. The 2013 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to investigate possibility of receiving federal approval to implement copayments or other mechanisms to encourage medical assistance recipients to take personal responsibility for their own health and health care. Requires authority to report conclusions from investigation to 2014 regular session of Legislative Assembly. Requires authority to reimburse physicians who are paid on fee-for-service basis at rate equal to 110 percent of Medicare rate.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

2 co-sponsors

Jim Thompson, Gene Whisnant

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Tim Knopp

    Its course

    February 27 to July 8, 2013, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action4 actions on 4 days

    In the House of RepresentativesFeb 27 to Jul 8 · stopped131 days

    Waiting for a committeeFeb 27 to Mar 67 days

    Health CareMar 6 to Jul 8 · stopped124 days

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Feb 27 – Jul 8

    1. Feb 27Introduced
    2. Mar 6Sent to Health Care
    3. Apr 10Heard in Health Care
    4. Jul 8Died when the session ended
    All 4 actions, as published
    1. Feb 27First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
    2. Mar 6Referred to Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
    3. Apr 10Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
    4. Jul 8In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives