Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Travis Nelson
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires hospitals to file certain reports showing demographics of hospitals' workforces with Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries for posting to Bureau of Labor and Industries' website.
Increases bond amounts that persons licensed by Construction Contractors Board must maintain.
Extends deadlines for affinity group task forces to complete their work with respect to allocations of resources to address communities' needs and health inequities faced by communities and to report recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Out of committee6
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Health Authority to use to continue pilot program providing grants to entities to operate mobile health units.
Establishes Statewide Steering Committee on Sickle Cell Disease.
Authorizes Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office, Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Commission on Black Affairs, Commission for Women and Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs to employ paid interns and staff necessary to supervise interns.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop incentive program to increase nighttime and weekend clinical training placements for nursing students.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish Nurse Educator Workforce Stipend Program to provide incentives to nurse instructors.
Requires Oregon State Board of Nursing to study nursing workforce.
In committee15
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board and directs board to create comprehensive plan for implementing Universal Health Plan beginning in 2027.
Provides that registered nurse providing patient care in good faith is immune from criminal liability for act or omission that is part of provision of care unless offense has intentional or knowing culpable mental state.
Directs insurer to consider only specified information in determining rates for motor vehicle liability insurance policy.
Imposes requirements on hospitals with respect to health care workers' schedules.
Expands allowable uses of sick leave provisions to include leave for employee's mental health and for care of mental health needs of employee's family member.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish program to provide financial incentives to hospitals for offering clinical training opportunities for nursing students.
Extends health care provider incentive program to health care providers who are students enrolled in health professional training programs leading to licensure as licensed practical nurse or registered nurse.
Requires hospitals to record and report to Oregon Health Authority hospitals' daily cash on hand.
Makes unlawful practice for employer or employment agency to advertise job, promotion or transfer opportunity without disclosing pay range and employment benefits in job posting.
Establishes Registered Nurse Grant program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Establishes unlawful employment practice for engaging in certain conduct that subjects employee to workplace bullying or hostile work environment.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Requires employer to compensate employee for on-call shift for which employee must remain on or near employer's premises or such that employee cannot use scheduled on-call hours for personal purposes.
Provides that city with population greater than 600,000 may refer ballot measure to electors to form park and recreation district and have entirety of governing body of city serve as entirety of membership of board of district so formed.
Requires employers who provide sick leave, vacation leave or personal business leave benefits to employees to compensate employees for all earned but unused accrued leave when employment terminates.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Modifies membership of Oregon State Hospital Advisory Board.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 47
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish program to provide grants to water suppliers.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene work group to study major barriers to workforce recruitment and retention in publicly financed behavioral health system in this state and to develop recommendations on specified topics.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Directs Health Licensing Office to establish guidelines for professional methods and procedures used by registered behavior analysis interventionists.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Creates right of action for person injured by paramilitary activity.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires hospitals to adopt policies and procedures to ensure provision of human immunodeficiency virus post-exposure prophylactic drugs or therapies following patient's possible exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Declares children who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind have same rights and potential as children who are not deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Provides that person that knows or consciously avoids knowing that another person is engaging in act or practice that violates laws that regulate telephone solicitations or use of automatic dialing and announcing devices and nonetheless provides substantial assistance or support for violation is liable for loss and subject to penalty to same extent as person that engaged in violation.
Requires Department of Human Services to conduct annual assessment of workforce capacity and needs in each program and unit of department and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30 of each even-numbered year.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization.
Establishes Oregon Abandoned and Derelict Vessel program in Department of State Lands to address abandoned and derelict vessels.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Requires insurer to offer 70 percent of coverage insured previously purchased for contents of residence to insured who holds policy of personal insurance without requiring inventory of loss if total loss of contents occurs as result of major disaster.
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for Fallen Hero roadside memorial highway sign if applicant is Gold Star Family member and funds are appropriated or otherwise made available to department for purpose of paying fees.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to use vacation, sick or annual leave for time spent by employee as appointed member of state board or commission.
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to examine possibility of creating high school equivalency diploma and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to support replacement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of residential units damaged or destroyed by disaster and to support recovery of residents of such housing.
Makes changes to Custodians' Civil Service Law to increase population threshold for subject school districts, remove barriers to filling employment vacancies and remove certain qualifications for members of civil service board.
Creates refundable child tax credit, calculated based on number of dependents of taxpayer that are qualifying children with respect to taxpayer and are under six years of age at close of tax year.
Imposes new requirements on hospitals with respect to financial assistance policies and processes.
Increases membership of State Board of Education to include additional representative of congressional district and to include member engaged as classified staff member for public school or education service district.
Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries.
Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges.
Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Authorizes physician assistants to provide same level of service as nurse practitioners for workers' compensation claims in managed care organization setting.
Directs Oregon State Board of Nursing to issue license to practice as certified registered nurse anesthetist to qualified applicant.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to make offer to negotiate settlement agreement conditional upon worker also entering into agreement that includes no-rehire provision.
Establishes Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed the House · 5
Provides requirements for employer deductions for erroneous overpayments of wages for employees who are not subject to collective bargaining agreement.
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Provides insured with cause of action for insurer's unfair claim settlement practices, other than practices related to settling workers' compensation or medical malpractice claim.
Provides that violation of prohibitions against unfair claim settlement practices with respect to insurance is subject to enforcement action under Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Out of committee · 25
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Directs Legislative Administrator to pay costs of reasonable accommodation of member of Legislative Assembly who is afforded rights and protections as person with disabilities under specified federal and state law.
Authorizes independent behavioral health certification entity that meets specified requirements to certify addiction peer support specialists to work with coordinated care organizations.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for costs related to increasing statewide capacity of licensed residential facilities serving individuals with substance use disorders or mental health concerns.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Directs Oregon State University to research reduced-risk pest management tools for Oregon's specialty crops and report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2027.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Directs Department of Human Services to ensure provision of specified services to individuals receiving child welfare services who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Increases retirement benefits and lowers normal retirement age under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan for telecommunicators and certain employees of Oregon State Hospital.
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Expands regular employment protections afforded for performance of legislative duties by members of Legislative Assembly by requiring employers, at option of member , to grant time off for less than full-day absence to member to perform legislative duties.
Directs Corrections Ombudsman to support Department of Corrections' continuous quality improvement efforts, and to provide report to Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly detailing staffing and resources needed to fulfill powers and duties of office within six months of appointment of ombudsman.
Requires addition to federal taxable income of amounts excluded as gain attributable to investment in federal qualified opportunity zone.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold flavored inhalant delivery system product or flavored tobacco product in this state.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Establishes Emergency Behavioral Health Services for Children program in Oregon Health Authority to promote timely delivery of behavioral health services to children who present to hospital emergency departments in behavioral health crises.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to require applicant for cannabis-related license or license renewal to submit signed attestation that applicant will refrain from interfering with labor organizing efforts or submit attestation that applicant and labor organization that is certified to represent employees of applicant have entered into and will abide by terms of labor peace agreement.
Permits Secretary of State to collect and share and communicate with approved organizations information about ethnicity, gender, veteran status and street address or electronic mail address of owner or principal of business that applies for or renews registration in this state.
Requires medical assistance to include continuous glucose monitor for specified recipients of medical assistance.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Business Development Department to be used for Economic Equity Investment Program created under chapter 103, Oregon Laws 2022 (Enrolled Senate Bill 1579).
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to working conditions of warehouse workers.
Expresses commitment of Legislative Assembly to support specified bridge projects through investments of specified amounts.
In committee · 27
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Grant Fund.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to establish and implement indirect source review program.
Imposes requirements on third-party food platforms.
Requires health insurance coverage of health care interpretation services that are legally mandated.
Defines "dangerous to self or others" for purpose of taking person with mental illness into custody.
Removes cap on amounts distributed from State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Prohibits seller from selling or leasing motor vehicle if sale or lease is contingent upon lender's agreement to purchase retail installment contract or lease agreement.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and maintain electronic system to collect information about administration of naloxone or other specified drugs, and deaths resulting from opioid overdose.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and maintain public health campaign to educate Oregonians about illicit opioids.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist.".
Allows owner of publicly accessible building or facility to obtain from Oregon Health Authority kit including short-acting opioid antagonist and necessary medical supplies to administer short-acting opioid antagonist for use by members of public.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist." Allows law enforcement officer, firefighter or emergency medical services provider to distribute multiple kits to specified individuals.
Requires governing board at each public university to include graduate student as voting member if university has more than 400 graduate students or if graduate students comprise more than 15 percent of total student body.
Allows Oregon Health Authority to issue standing order to prescribe short-acting opioid antagonist and necessary medical supplies to administer short-acting opioid antagonist.
Requires Department of Revenue to study revenues received by state from transactions involving alcoholic beverages.
Provides that unit of government may not assess toll on state highways or interstate highways located in tri-county area unless Department of Transportation conducts and submits equity plan for approval by affected counties.
Requires local government approval of project to create, enhance or restore wetlands if project would convert lands used for agricultural purposes to wetlands.
Directs Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Provides statewide minimum wage rate beginning on July 1, 2024.
Modifies definitions of "employer" and "employee" to include certain categories of individuals within scope of application of laws concerning private sector labor relations.
Expands definition of "debilitating medical condition" for medical use of marijuana.
Requires general hospital licensed in Oregon to provide maternity services subject to exemption that Oregon Health Authority may allow under criteria prescribed by rule.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of consumer electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized service provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.