Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Rob Nosse
Sponsored
Became law15
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.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
Extends deadline for local plans for applying foundational capabilities and implementing foundational programs related to public health to December 31, 2025.
Extends grace period for repayment of nonresidential rent between April 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, until September 30, 2021, for certain tenants.
Directs school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction in oral health as part of health education curriculum.
Defines "device" for purposes of practice of advanced nonablative esthetics.
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.
Extends Veteran Educational Bridge Grant Program.
Limits ability of public university to refuse new mandatory incidental fees or process for collecting mandatory incidental fees.
Adds requirements for suspension of hospital nurse staffing plan during national or state emergency declaration.
Extends sunset on requirement that Oregon Health Authority reimburse cost of mental health drugs in medical assistance program.
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.
Delays to December 15 date on which interest begins to accrue on first one-third of property taxes, and other related charges, not paid when due on November 15.
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.
Allows nurse to discuss medical use of marijuana with patient.
Out of committee5
Requires Department of Human Services to reimburse cost of care provided by specified agencies in amounts sufficient to allow agencies to pay direct support professional 150 percent of state minimum wage.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for certain biennial expenses.
Requires Department of Human Services, in collaboration with community developmental disabilities programs, to study and make recommendation for new funding structure for community developmental disabilities programs and report findings and recommendation to Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2022.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to evaluate specified issues related to certified community behavioral health clinics and report findings and analysis to interim committees of Legislative Assembly by September 30, 2023.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to operators of movie theaters closed to public due to public health restrictions related to COVID-19.
In committee28
Requires individual and group health insurance policies to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to study impacts of engine emissions on environment and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Establishes Task Force on Behavioral Health to study issues identified by Secretary of State's audit of Oregon's mental health treatment system and develop recommendations for better integration of behavioral health systems in this state and for improving compensation and working conditions of direct providers of behavioral health care.
Prohibits sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade or other distribution for consideration of fur product in State of Oregon.
Repeals prohibition on local rent control.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing license or permit to allow construction or operation of new industrial dairy, addition to or expansion of existing industrial dairy or addition to or expansion of dairy that would cause dairy to become industrial dairy.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Adds requirements for suspension of hospital nurse staffing plan during national or state emergency declaration.
Prohibits termination of commercial tenancy for nonpayment if outstanding nonpayment balance does not exceed nonpayment balance at end of grace period amortized over remaining term of rental agreement.
Prohibits termination of commercial tenancy for nonpayment if outstanding nonpayment balance does not exceed nonpayment balance at end of grace period amortized over remaining term of rental agreement.
Abolishes Board of Certified Advanced Estheticians and transfers responsibilities to Health Licensing Office and Board of Cosmetology.
Directs Legislative Revenue Officer to study land value taxation and submit report to interim legislative committees related to revenue.
Prohibits person 21 years of age or older from possessing more than two ounces of usable marijuana in public place.
Provides that conditioning employment on refraining from using any substance that is lawful to use in this state is unlawful employment practice.
Includes, for purposes of corporate excise tax, corporation incorporated in United States or foreign country in determination of unitary relationship among corporations.
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues related to temporary protections for commercial real estate and to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Prohibits person from using specified types of animals in traveling animal act.
Authorizes radiologist to serve on Health Evidence Review Commission.
Requires hospital to establish hospital staffing committee, in addition to hospital nurse staffing committee, to develop hospital-wide staffing plan for staff other than nursing staff.
Establishes Task Force on Personal Delivery Devices.
Authorizes additional individuals to serve as treasurer of political committee or petition committee.
Removes requirement that person seeking intervention in juvenile dependency proceeding or rights of limited participation in juvenile dependency or delinquency proceeding prove that existing parties cannot adequately present case.
Directs Oregon Transportation Commission to implement variable time-of-day pilot program as part of traffic congestion relief program.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules related to prescription drug labels.
Repeals crimes of prostitution, commercial sexual solicitation and promoting prostitution.
Prohibits prosecuting attorney from conditioning plea agreement on stipulation of defendant's ability to pay attorney fees for appointed counsel or other defense fees and expenses.
Prescribes requirements for Oregon Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Program.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Establishes rate of compensation to be paid by Oregon Liquor Control Commission to distillery retail outlet agent for distilled liquor retail sales by agent.
Allows holder of full on-premises sales license to make retail sales of mixed drinks and single servings of wine in sealed containers for off-premises consumption.
Provides that discovery of victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation does not constitute reasonable explanation for extreme emotional disturbance for purposes of affirmative defense to murder in the second degree.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 45
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
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.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services.
Allows certain holders of temporary event licenses to sell specified alcoholic beverages for on and off-premises consumption at more than one location on licensed premises or have up to three premises licensed under single temporary sales license and operate for up to 30 days.
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.
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.
Requires state medical assistance program to provide mental health wellness appointments as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
Provides that registered owner may request that registration card issued for vehicle include that owner, or person operating vehicle, may be deaf or hard of hearing.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Requires police officers to be trained in airway and circulatory anatomy and physiology and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to compile and annually post to website report on information reported to authority by coordinated care organizations regarding requests for prior authorization.
Allows Department of Transportation to title park model recreational vehicles based on original manufacturing.
Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth.
Authorizes Health Licensing Office to issue license to practice genetic counseling to qualified applicant.
Requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies that require use of smoke evacuation system during surgical procedures likely to generate surgical smoke.
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Increases temporarily, by $10 million annually, funds collected by electric companies for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance.
Establishes compensation schedule for Oregon Liquor Control Commission retail sales agents.
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers' compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Modifies police officer's duty to report misconduct.
Directs law enforcement unit to participate in National Use-of-Force Data Collection operated by Federal Bureau of Investigation.
States legislative findings about racism and public safety.
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.
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.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that police officers and certified reserve officers are trained to investigate, identify and report crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived gender of victim.
Requires media production companies seeking reimbursement under Oregon Production Investment Fund programs to perform certain actions related to diversity, equity and inclusion with respect to production for which reimbursement is sought.
Directs medical examiner or medical-legal death investigator to report deaths of decedents 24 years of age or younger to local mental health authority if district medical examiner, assistant district medical examiner, pathologist or designee of district medical examiner reasonably believes manner of death was suicide.
Removes "gender identity" from definition of "sexual orientation" in ORS 174.100 and creates standalone definition of "gender identity" in ORS 174.100.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Modifies statute authorizing law enforcement officers to command dispersal of unlawful assemblies and arrest participants who do not disperse.
Limits exemption from rent increase limits for landlords renting under government programs reducing rents.
Modifies crime of interfering with a peace officer or parole and probation officer.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Renames Health Care for All Oregon Children program as Cover All People program and expands eligibility to adults who would qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but for their immigration status.
Provides that third-party food platform may not take and arrange for delivery of order from food place without written consent of food place.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to require certain information related to history of compliance with environmental quality laws from applicant for license or permit.
Passed the House · 2
Prohibits person from conducting or participating in contest, competition, tournament or derby that has objective of taking coyotes for cash or prizes.
Requires board of directors of publicly traded corporation to have specified proportion of female directors and directors who are members of underrepresented communities.
Out of committee · 14
Requires Director of Oregon Health Authority to work with Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to take statewide inventory of services available to prevent and treat substance use disorders and to support individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
Requires advisory committee to Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services on collection of data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages and disability status to commission study to inventory state agencies' databases used to compile data on race, ethnicity, language and disability status, ability readiness of data systems to collect data, cost to collect data, needed upgrades to data systems and which data systems are priority for upgrades.
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients, residents, staff and visitors plant-based meals and beverages.
Modifies definition of "global warming" to include certain aerosol air contaminants, including black carbon.
Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Extends and modifies tax credits for donations for individual development accounts.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to study approaches to reducing diesel engine emissions attributable to indirect sources of air contamination and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct study to collect and interpret data to enable legislators to develop understanding of students' instructional needs caused by school closures due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to prepare report concerning Oregon's current framework for preventing, monitoring and responding to zoonotic disease.
Provides for nonprofit organization that addresses and executes worker relief to serve as fiscal agent to award grants to organizations to provide services related to immigration matters through universal representation program.
Increases maximum amount of tax credits for certified film production development contributions that may be certified for fiscal year for all taxpayers.
In committee · 30
Establishes procedure for person to bring action in name of state to recover civil penalties for violations of state law.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Requires policy or certificate of health insurance to cover specified health services without prior authorization.
Expands health benefit plan coverage of childbirth and pregnancy-related health care expenses.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Expands types of pesticide that may not be included in school list of low-impact pesticides for use in integrated pest management plan.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish and maintain uniform rental application system.
Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether individual is employee or independent contractor and to cooperate in adopting rules to facilitate consistency in application of definition of independent contractor and provisions of Act.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene container in selling, offering for sale, serving or dispensing prepared food to public.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to study methods for disposal of sharps waste and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Permits person who will be 17 years old on date of primary election and 18 years old on date of general election to vote at primary election for candidates of major political party with which person is affiliated if major political party has adopted rule to this effect.
Adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to definition of "minority individual" for purposes of providing public contracting opportunities to minority-owned businesses in this state.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to offer at least one integrated health benefit plan meeting specified requirements in 2023.
Prohibits government body from issuing permit for construction, expansion or modification of chemical recycling facility.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to amend state mechanical, heating and ventilating code to require use of current best available technology for filtering outside air admitted into buildings and to require that all outside air admitted into buildings passes through filtration technology during periods in which air outside building poses significant risk of harm to health or safety of occupants of building.
Requires employers of employees who engage in outdoor work activities to take certain actions to mitigate employee's risk of exposure to unhealthy air quality from wildfire smoke.
Prohibits sale of products that make deceptive or misleading claims about recyclability.
Establishes BIPOC health care provider loan forgiveness program within Oregon Health Authority to provide loan repayment subsidies to BIPOC health care providers.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was significant factor in criminal behavior.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that terms "predatory animal" and "rodent" do not include beavers.
Requires 100 percent of electricity sold in 2035 and each subsequent calendar year to retail electricity consumers to be clean electricity.
Provides that discovery of victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation does not constitute reasonable explanation for extreme emotional disturbance for purposes of affirmative defense to murder in the second degree.
Provides court with discretion to appoint counsel for child or children in hearings related to domestic relations, custody or support, parentage or habeas corpus.
Prohibits sale or use of two-cycle gasoline-powered leaf blowers in counties with population greater than 400,000.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic.
Declares racism as public health crisis in this state.