Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Ben Bowman
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to contract with no more than two agencies to provide agency with choice services to individuals who are older adults or who have disabilities.
Passed the House1
Prohibits a shareholder, director or officer of a domestic or foreign professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee or contractor of or otherwise participating in managing both the professional corporation and a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Creates the crime of interfering with an investigation into an offense against an animal.
Declares a state policy to support engagement between offshore wind developers and impacted organizations, communities and tribes.
Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program.
Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to make efforts to eliminate certain investments in thermal coal companies.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study to determine the funding required for each community mental health program to provide the services and perform the functions required by law related to individuals with behavioral health disorders in specified age groups.
Establishes the CHIPS Child Care Fund.
Designates the fourth Wednesday in February of each year as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day.
Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Enhances the protections for post-secondary institutions of education, student athletes and others regarding the provision of compensation for a student's name, image, likeness or athletic reputation.
Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households.
Expands the exemption from the licensure requirement for certain nurses.
Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
Provides that a petition for a Family Abuse Prevention Act order, Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act order or sexual abuse restraining order may be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2025.
Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce.
Establishes the Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund.
Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determining if conduct is prohibited sexual conduct.
Out of committee · 8
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legislative Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative Assembly to review any proposed measure sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority for the costs of targeted case management services provided in the nurse home visiting services program for families during pregnancy and for two years after the pregnancy.
Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct a comprehensive study of youth apprenticeships in the United States.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a procurement and enter into a contract with a qualified vendor to conduct a study on the impact of Senate Bill 242 (2011) and Senate Bill 270 (2013) on higher education in this state.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon.
In committee · 3
Authorizes a federal firearms licensee to enter into a firearm hold agreement with a firearm owner.
Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance.