l9n/ Oregon

2019 Regular Session

Senate Bill 852

Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage and 50 percent of increase in premium cost for employee and dependent coverage.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Ways and Means Committee on June 30, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums <i>, with remaining 90 percent paid by state</i>]<b> for employee coverage and 50 percent of increase in premium cost for employee and dependent coverage. Requires state to pay for remaining costs of insurance premiums out of moneys appropriated to Oregon Educators Benefit Board</b>.<b> Permits institution to agree through collective bargaining to pay portion of employee's premium share. <b>Provides that employees who are eligible to receive health care benefits in manner specified may receive health care benefits from institution only in manner specified. Provides that any savings realized by institution are subject to collective bargaining. <b>Directs board to determine prior to open enrollment period whether it has received sufficient funds to cover required premium payments. Provides that if board has not received sufficient funds, board may require employee share to increase and that institution is not responsible for paying insurance premiums. <b>Requires legacy health benefit coverage to be maintained for part-time faculty at institutions who are not eligible for health care benefits under provisions. <b>Establishes Part-Time Faculty Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to board. <b>Declares emergency, effective on passage.</b>

Sponsors

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

Its course

February 26 to June 30, 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 action10 actions on 8 days

In the SenateFeb 26 to Jun 30 · stopped124 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 26 to Feb 271 day

WorkforceFeb 27 to Mar 78 days

EducationMar 7 to Apr 1135 days

Ways and MeansApr 11 to Jun 30 · stopped80 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 11

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 Senate Feb 26 – Jun 30

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Workforce
  3. Heard in Workforce
  4. Workforce reported it without a recommendation, and that it go to Education
  5. Sent to Education
  6. Heard in Education
  7. Heard in Education
  8. Education recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  9. Sent to Ways and Means
  10. Died when the session ended
All 10 actions, as published