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2019 Regular Session

Senate Bill 770

Establishes Task Force on Universal Health Care charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents.

Became law as Chapter 629, Oregon Laws 2019, signed July 23, 2019, 161 days after it was filed. In force from July 23, 2019.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Establishes <b>Task Force on</b> Universal Health Care <i>Commission</i>] charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents. Specifies membership and duties of <i>commission</i>]<b> task force</b>. Requires recommendations to be guided by specified values and principles. Prescribes requirements for plan design and items that <i>commission</i>]<b> task force</b> must consider. Requires <i>commission to first meet by November 1, 2019, and provide first report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by March 15, 2020. Requires commission</i>]<b> members of task force to be appointed by May 31, 2020, and task force </b>to submit to <b>2021 regular session of</b> Legislative Assembly final recommendations <i>by February 1, 2021, or report on work that remains to be completed</i>]<b> for design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan and Health Care for All Oregon Board</b>. <b>Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for Medicaid Buy-In program. Specifies elements that must be included in plan, to extent feasible. Requires authority to provide report to Legislative Assembly, no later than May 1, 2020, containing discussion of potential eligibility requirements for Medicaid Buy-In program or public option, options for targeting specified groups, recommendations for legislative changes necessary to implement plan and any federal approval that would be required to implement plan.</b> Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

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

Its course

February 12 to August 8, 2019, 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 action25 actions on 16 days

In the SenateFeb 12 to Jun 30138 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 12 to Feb 142 days

Health CareFeb 14 to Apr 1661 days

Ways and MeansApr 16 to Jun 14 · moved on59 days

Capital ConstructionJun 14 to Jun 17 · moved on3 days

Ways and MeansJun 17 to Jun 214 days

In the House of RepresentativesJun 30 to Jun 300 days

Waiting for a committeeJun 30 to Jun 300 days

Ways and MeansJun 30 to Jun 300 days

With the GovernorJun 30 to Jul 2323 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • Senate, third reading19–9

    Passed · Jun 30 · 2 present

  • House of Representatives, third reading37–18

    Passed · Jun 30 · 4 present

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 16

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jun 21

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

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What happened

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

In the Senate Feb 12 – Jun 30

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Health Care
  3. Heard in Health Care
  4. Heard in Health Care
  5. Heard in Health Care
  6. Health Care recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  7. Sent to Ways and Means
  8. Sent to Capital Construction Subcommittee
  9. Heard in Capital Construction Subcommittee
  10. Returned to Ways and Means
  11. Heard in Ways and Means
  12. Ways and Means recommended it as amended
  13. Read a second time
  14. Passed the Senate, 19 to 9

In the House of Representatives Jun 30

  1. Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to Ways and Means
  3. Ways and Means recommended it
  4. Read a second time
  5. Passed the House of Representatives, 37 to 18

To the Governor Jul 3 – Aug 8

  1. Signed in the Senate
  2. Signed in the House of Representatives
  3. Signed by the Governor
  4. Became chapter 629 of Oregon Laws 2019
  5. In force from July 23, 2019
All 25 actions, as published