l9n/ Oregon

2023 Regular Session

Senate Bill 849

Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Ways and Means Committee on June 25, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals. Prohibits Oregon Medical Board from imposing time limitation on completion of United States Medical Licensing Examination. Allows board to issue limited license to practice medicine to specified individuals for practice under supervision of other licensed physician. Establishes Internationally Educated Workforce Reentry Grant Program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to <b>local workforce development boards that contract with</b> specified entities that provide eligible career guidance and support services to internationally educated residents of Oregon who are seeking to enter Oregon workforce in certain professions. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Bill Hansell

In the House of Representatives

1 co-sponsor

Andrea Valderrama

Its course

February 2 to June 25, 2023, 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the SenateFeb 2 to Jun 25 · stopped143 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 2 to Feb 31 day

Labor and BusinessFeb 3 to Mar 1641 days

Ways and MeansMar 16 to Jun 25 · stopped101 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Mar 16

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 2 – Jun 25

  1. Feb 2Introduced
  2. Feb 3Sent to Labor and Business
  3. Feb 28Heard in Labor and Business
  4. Mar 14Heard in Labor and Business
  5. Mar 16Labor and Business recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Jun 25Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Feb 2Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Feb 3Referred to Labor and Business.Senate
  3. Feb 28Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Mar 14Work Session held.Senate
  5. Mar 16Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means. (Printed A-Eng.)Senate
  6. Mar 16Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President.Senate
  7. Jun 25In committee upon adjournment.Senate