Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Rob Nosse
Sponsored
Became law11
Requires extension to no later than December 31, 2026, of term for contract between Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization.
Allows certain pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines.
Requires Health Licensing Office to establish process to receive and investigate complaints regarding temporary staffing agency.
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.
Expands Housing and Community Services Department ability to allow financing of certain affordable residential units within certain housing developments subject to limits established by Oregon Housing Stability Council.
Increases fees that pawnbroker may charge for certain services.
Removes requirement that Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board solicit new bids for actuarial or technical support every three years.
Repeals provision specifying fiscal year end date for credit unions.
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.
Directs Oregon State Board of Nursing to issue license to practice as certified registered nurse anesthetist to qualified applicant.
Allows person to practice surgical technology at health care facility if person has completed and is certified by specified apprenticeship program.
Passed the House1
Provides requirements for employer deductions for erroneous overpayments of wages for employees who are not subject to collective bargaining agreement.
Out of committee16
Authorizes independent behavioral health certification entity that meets specified requirements to certify addiction peer support specialists to work with coordinated care organizations.
Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
Requires Department of Human Services to reimburse cost of care provided by specified agencies in amounts sufficient to allow agencies to pay direct support professionals 150 percent of state minimum wage and to cover costs of employer contributions for family and medical leave insurance benefits.
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.
Requires Portland State University, subject to sufficient moneys being appropriated, to enhance state's capacity to educate public mental health and addiction treatment providers by July 1, 2028, by materially increasing number of graduates from relevant degree programs.
Directs Department of Human Services to immediately increase payments to certain adult foster home providers by 50 percent and, by January 1, 2024, restructure payment methodology to increase base rates and to reduce need for exceptional payments.
Creates Cultural Impact Program.
Expands definition of "residential homes" and "residential facilities" that local governments must approve under same standards as other residential uses.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for distribution to Trillium Family Services for construction of facility for Oregon Center for Child, Family and Community Health.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to require substance use disorder treatment programs to obtain accreditation.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to conduct study every four years of funding needed by community mental health programs in complying with statutory requirements and post report of findings to authority's website.
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.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Establishes Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee to review , at request of chair or vice chair of committee of Legislative Assembly related to health, proposed legislative measure, legislative concept or amendment that requires health insurer or health care service contractor to reimburse cost of specified procedure or provider and to produce report analyzing specified anticipated effects of coverage or lack of coverage of treatment or service proposed.
Requires System of Care Advisory Council to study application of just culture model in investigative processes of child-caring agencies.
In committee21
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to review and update classification plan and compensation for specified positions held by individuals employed by community developmental disabilities programs or support service brokerages.
Exempts from drug paraphernalia prohibitions any testing equipment that analyzes substances for presence of specified controlled substances.
Prohibits practice of conversion therapy by certain professionals.
Requires Judicial Department, Department of Corrections, Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator and Oregon Health Authority to survey the capacity of systems to provide required services to individuals and meet requirements related to hearing to determine fitness to proceed.
Imposes new requirements on Oregon Health Authority with respect to residential mental health services.
Establishes certified community behavioral health clinic program in Oregon Health Authority.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene two work groups to study statutory and regulatory framework for behavioral health systems and make recommendations to reduce administrative burdens on behavioral health care providers and increase system efficiencies.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Health Authority to allocate to community mental health programs for oversight of residential facilities and for conducting abuse investigations.
Allows clinical laboratory to wait five days before releasing results of certain tests, examinations and analyses of patient specimens to patient.
Modifies membership requirements and duties of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Health Evidence Review Commission and advisory committees appointed for committee and commission.
Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study advantages and disadvantages of decriminalizing crime of prostitution.
Specifies type of change in system for selling containers of distilled liquor that qualifies person appointed to operate liquor store for business loss compensation.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene work group consisting of stakeholders to study legislative or regulatory means of establishing staffing committees or establishing minimum staffing levels for home health agencies, hospice programs, home infusion agencies, public health agencies, correctional facilities and ambulatory surgical centers.
Imposes requirements on third-party food platforms.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization to pay reasonable per diem rate for patient whose discharge from hospital is delayed due to circumstances beyond hospital's control.
Establishes Board of Behavioral Health Specialists.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study current and future need for secure residential treatment facility beds and report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health, by September 15, 2023, findings of study and plan for statewide coordination of admissions to, discharges from and waiting lists for facilities and for achieving needed capacity.
Requires health insurance reimbursement of cost of behavioral health care services provided by master's degree level students under clinical supervision.
Requires insurers offering health benefit plans and pharmacy benefit managers to provide specified information regarding prescribed drug covered by plan or administered by manager, at time drug is prescribed.
Imposes excise tax on retail sale of tires, privilege tax for engaging in business of providing nonroad diesel equipment, tax on use in Oregon of nonroad diesel equipment purchased out of state at retail, heavy equipment rental tax on rentals of nonroad diesel equipment, privilege tax on heavy-duty vehicles and license tax on dyed diesel for transfer to Clean Diesel Engine Fund.
Prohibits public health care employer from denying employment to prospective employee or taking adverse employment action against existing employee solely on basis of positive drug test for cannabinoid metabolites.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and maintain regional family support networks for families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 36
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Authorizes Early Learning Council to adopt by rule reasonable requirements for landlords of tenants who operate certified family child care home in tenant's dwelling.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
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 Governor, in appointing members to Oregon State Board of Nursing, to balance diversity of setting in which nurse or certified nursing assistant members provide care.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.
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.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
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.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
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.
Requires school districts undertaking HVAC infrastructure improvements for which state and federal funds are made specifically available to expend such funds on certain activities aimed at improving indoor air ventilation quality in schools.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
Prohibits manufacturer from selling or offering to sell cosmetic developed through use of cosmetic animal test.
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.
Requires county clerk to replace recorded instrument with court-ordered version that redacts discriminatory language.
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.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
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.
Allows Arts Program to use up to five percent of value of Trust for Cultural Development Account for certain administrative purposes.
Establishes Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Passed both houses · 1
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to offices of President of United States, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
Passed the House · 1
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Out of committee · 22
Requires that mileage reimbursement be paid to home care workers, personal support workers and personal care workers who provide home care services to clients who live in remote locations.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board, to adopt rules for board to evaluate and recommend adding disease to or removing disease from newborn bloodspot screening panel or taking no action on disease.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to appoint work group to develop framework for multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by Department of Human Services.
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.
Allocates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to county fair operators in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on county fair operators' earned revenue.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and adopt by rule child care assistance pilot program to provide assistance and support to long term care employees with child care needs.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to provide grants to assist noncitizens who do not possess valid immigration documentation change immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Establishes Task Force on Health Care Services in Oregon Schools to examine scope of duties of employment and practice for licensed health care providers employed by schools, school districts or education service districts to provide health care services.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish program to issue grants to community colleges to promote and increase dental assistant and dental hygienist training programs in Oregon.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to annually report specified information to Department of Consumer and Business Services, including costs and rebates of prescription drugs for enrollees.
Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs.
Requires addition to federal taxable income of amounts excluded as gain attributable to investment in federal qualified opportunity zone.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
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.
Establishes Task Force on the State of Sport in Oregon to make recommendations for growing businesses in athletics, team sports, outdoor activities and recreation ecosystem in order to establish Oregon as most conducive location in North America for sports economy.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disburse to Oregon Health and Science University funds to support entity established within Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Prohibits sale, offer for sale or trade of fur product in State of Oregon.
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 · 15
Establishes certain requirements concerning aquaculture.
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 confined animal feeding operation, addition to or expansion of existing industrial confined animal feeding operation or addition to or expansion of livestock farm that would cause livestock farm to become industrial confined animal feeding operation.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study nutritionist licensing.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt standards prohibiting engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small nonroad engines beginning January 1, 2026, unless a later date is required by federal Clean Air Act.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager, after adjudication of and payment on claim for reimbursement of prescription drug, from recouping reimbursement paid except as part of routine audit, or from imposing retroactive fee on basis that was not determined when claim was adjudicated.
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.
Requires hospitals to record and report to Oregon Health Authority hospitals' daily cash on hand.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections.
Authorizes Multnomah County to form master plan and service district regarding bridges that span Willamette River.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Multnomah County for Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project.
Directs State Workforce and Talent Development Board to adopt policies specific to workforce development initiatives within clean energy sector.
Requires owner of public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in public building.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality from issuing permit or other authorization for construction or expansion of plastic conversion technology facility.
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.