Senate Bill 1521

<b>Digest: The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers. <b>The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. <b>The Act makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool. The tool makes sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers.</i>] [<i>The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. Requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026.</i>] [<i>The Act changes the way that DHS makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool to make sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there.</i>] [<i>The Act requires that some people must be licensed to help children in DHS custody to stay out of temporary lodging. The Act says that those people do not have to be licensed until 1/1/25. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4).</i>] Requires the Department of Human Services to contract with at least one organization by July 1, 2024, to provide enhanced supports to employers of personal support workers and describes the supports that must be provided by the organization. Specifies the minimum requirements for agencies to be endorsed by the department to provide agency with choice services and requires the department to contract with at least one organization to provide agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. Prohibits specified acts by agencies that employ staff to provide direct support professionals. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to hire one additional position for the authority's Medicaid [<i>fraud</i>] <b>program integrity</b> unit. Modifies the enforcement by the Department of Human Services of the requirements for residential care facilities to use acuity-based staffing tools to ensure sufficient staffing levels to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs at all times. [<i>Requires that certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports for children in the custody of the department be licensed as child-caring agencies. Specifies that certain providers of care or services to children are not child-caring agencies. Delays licensing requirement for certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports to children until January 1, 2025. Permits the department until December 31, 2024, to continue contracting with certain providers of placement safety and supports even though they are unlicensed.</i>] Extends deadline from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2027, for residential training homes and adult foster homes licensed before July 1, 2026, to install automatic sprinkler systems. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

• Senate, third reading17–11

  Passed · Mar 7 · 2 present

• House of Representatives, third reading35–21

  Passed · Mar 7 · 4 present

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Feb 19

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Mar 7

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In the Senate Feb 5 – Mar 7

1. Feb 5Introduced
2. Sent to Human Services
3. Feb 7Heard in Human Services
4. Feb 12Heard in Human Services
5. Feb 14Heard in Human Services
6. Feb 19Human Services recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
7. Sent to Ways and Means
8. Feb 29Sent to Capital Construction Subcommittee
9. Mar 6Heard in Capital Construction Subcommittee
10. Heard in Capital Construction Subcommittee
11. Returned to Ways and Means
12. Mar 7Ways and Means recommended it as amended
13. Read a second time
14. Passed the Senate, 17 to 11

In the House of Representatives Mar 7

1. Mar 7Arrived 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, 35 to 21

To the Governor Mar 12 – Apr 11

1. Mar 12Signed in the Senate
2. Mar 13Signed in the House of Representatives
3. Apr 4Signed by the Governor
4. Apr 11Became chapter 92 of Oregon Laws 2024
5. In force from April 4, 2024