Committees · 2021 Regular Session
Human Services
Members
As the committee stood at the end of the term. Each name leads to the member's page.
Kate LieberCo-chair
Democrat · 14th District
Rob NosseCo-chair
Democrat · 42nd District
Democrat · 8th District
Democrat · 28th District
Republican · 7th District
Republican · 27th District
Republican · 4th District
Democrat · 52nd District
Bills
Bills sent to the committee in the 2021 Regular Session.
Bills sent42
3% of the bills sent to joint committees
Reported out0%
0 of 42; 42 moved on without a report
Time in committeetoo few to say
Amendments offered0
committee amendments
In every session
Each session over its whole term. The 2026 is so far.
20263 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
202533 bills
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20246 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
202329 bills
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202212 bills
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202142 bills
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20205 bills
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201939 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
20186 bills
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201738 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
20168 bills
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201560 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
201411 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 6 members
201353 bills
reported 2% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 6 members
201210 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 7 members
201132 bills
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200964 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 8 members
200732 bills
reported 0% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 11 members
Bills it was sent
Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2021 Regular Session, newest first.
42 bills
Senate Bill 844 · Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board in Department of Consumer and Business Services to review prices for nine drugs and at least one insulin product, from among drugs reported to Prescription Drug Price Transparency program by prescription drug manufacturers, drugs reported by insurers in filings and insulin drugs marketed in this state, that are expected to create affordability challenges for health systems or high out-of-pocket costs for patients in Oregon based on specified criteria.
Sent June 14, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2010 · Directs Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to create implementation plan for public health plan to be made available to individuals and families in individual health insurance market and to small employers.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2075 · Establishes vendor license and annual fee for persons engaging in certain conduct regarding radiation devices and equipment, including X-ray machines and tanning devices.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 1 day · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2397 · Establishes Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program in Department of Human Services to fund and monitor certain local public sector pilot projects related to emergency medical services for seniors.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2417 · Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2842 · Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2949 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2980 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide funding to peer-run organizations in Portland metropolitan area, southern Oregon region, Oregon coast and eastern and central Oregon region to operate peer respite centers to provide peer respite services to individuals with mental illness or trauma response symptoms who experience acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain that may lead to need for higher level of care.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 3035 · Establishes Task Force on Corrections Medical Care.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 1 day · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 3045 · Extends sunset on requirement that Oregon Health Authority reimburse cost of mental health drugs in medical assistance program.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 3046 · Specifies behavioral health treatment that must be provided by coordinated care organizations and covered by group health insurance and individual health plans and restricts utilization review criteria for behavioral health treatment.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 3159 · Requires coordinated care organization, health care provider or health insurer to collect from patient, client or member data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages, disability status, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
Senate Bill 65 · Transfers duties, functions and powers related to COFA Premium Assistance Program and health insurance exchange from Department of Consumer and Business Services to Oregon Health Authority on June 30, 2021.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 567 · Includes as unlawful practice medical provider's denial of treatment that is likely to benefit patient based on patient's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 1 day · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 710 · Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of children in care by certain programs.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 749 · Requires residential care referral agent to be registered with Department of Human Services.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 800 · Establishes Oregon Essential Workforce Health Care Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide supplemental payments, as approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to long term care facilities, residential facilities and in-home care agencies that elect to participate and meet specified requirements, to be used to provide health care benefits to employees of facilities.
Sent June 13, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2910 · Requires Oregon Health Authority, upon receipt of federal approval, to assess fee on emergency medical services providers and use fee, interest, penalties assessed on providers and associated federal financial participation less any costs incurred by authority to administer program to reimburse emergency medical services providers for costs of emergency medical services transports.
Sent June 10, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2591 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate need and develop plans for school-based health services.
Sent June 8, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 2 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
Senate Bill 428 · Extends for one year sunset on Task Force on Universal Health Care and extends deadline for task force to submit recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
22 more
Senate Bill 703 · Adds direct care worker or representative of direct care worker to Quality Measurement Council.
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 707 · Directs Department of Human Services to provide certain notices to children and wards whom department placed in out-of-state residential facilities between January 1, 2016, and June 30, 2020, and upon request to provide representatives of children and wards with certain documentation and information.
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 3 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 714 · Requires Department of Human Services to establish specified requirements for use of acuity-based staffing tool by residential care facilities.
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 755 · Modifies and provides for implementation of Ballot Measure 110 (2020).
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 763 · Provides that person may not engage in business as pharmaceutical representative without obtaining license from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Sent June 5, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 9 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2072 · Increases fees for licenses for home health agencies.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2074 · Increases prescription monitoring program fees from $25 to $35.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2088 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt by rule qualification criteria for tribal traditional health workers as additional category of traditional health workers.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2316 · Establishes Behavioral Health Housing Incentive Fund and transfers interest earned by Housing for Mental Health Fund to Behavioral Health Housing Incentive Fund on effective date of Act.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 12 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2359 · Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2505 · Directs Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to establish Child Welfare Equity Advisory Committee to advise commission and Department of Human Services regarding equitable provision of child welfare services.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 2981 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer program to provide, through coordinated care organizations, palliative care services, as determined by interdisciplinary team, to patients in their choice of residences.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 4 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 3353 · Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 7 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
Senate Bill 70 · Defines "regional health equity coalition" and "regional health equity coalition model." Requires Oregon Health Authority to work with regional health equity coalitions.
Sent June 3, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 5 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 5043 · Modifies certain biennial appropriations from General Fund to Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority for biennium ending June 30, 2021.
Sent May 19, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 8 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5003 · Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Commission for the Blind for biennial expenses.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 107 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5019 · Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Long Term Care Ombudsman for biennial expenses.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 123 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5021 · Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by Oregon Medical Board.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 102 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5022 · Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by Oregon State Board of Nursing.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 102 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5024 · Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for certain biennial expenses.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 143 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
House Bill 5029 · Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Psychiatric Security Review Board for biennial expenses.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 121 days · then passed the House of Representatives, and became law
Senate Bill 5529 · Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for certain biennial expenses.
Sent January 24, 2021 · Moved on without a report after 144 days · then passed the Senate, and became law