Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, House.
Rob Nosse
Sponsored
Became law13
Includes outpatient facilities with a certified substance use disorder program that employ certified alcohol and drug counselors as providers for the purposes of mental health treatment insurance coverage.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure residential treatment homes.
Requires the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to establish a schedule of violations and remove from the board's website and publicly accessible publications, other than from a searchable electronic database designed to enable licensure or registration verification, information related to a licensee's or associate's violations after a specified time.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to eligible entities to foster the recruitment and retention of behavioral health care providers at the entities.
Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavioral health capacity throughout this state.
Defines "five-needle protocol."
Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
Requires a contractor, as a condition of receiving public funds to install, repair or remodel a fenestration product or system in a public building, to have a national certification as a glazing contractor and at least one employee that has a national certification as an architectural glass and metal technician.
Requires additional reporting about prior authorization to the Department of Consumer and Business Services from insurers offering a health benefit plan and tells the department to make this data publicly available.
Limits the property tax special assessment program for historic property to commercial property.
Prohibits balance billing for ambulance ground transportation services in certain circumstances and creates rules for health benefit plan reimbursement of ambulance services.
Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopted, the applicable statutory nurse-to-patient staffing ratio for the unit.
Permits the Secretary of State to accept a commercial mail receiving agency as a business entity's principal office, records office address or principal address if the physical street address of the business entity's principal office, records office address or principal address is the same as the physical street address of the commercial mail receiving agency.
Passed the House1
Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to waive the unpaid waiting week period for unemployment insurance claimants who are unable to perform services due a state-declared emergency related to severe weather.
Out of committee17
Imposes requirements and restrictions on insurer and coordinated care organization audits of claims for reimbursement submitted by behavioral health treatment providers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs.
Clarifies that a liquor store's amount of annual sales of alcoholic beverages used to determine liquor store class is not adjusted.
Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be distributed to Oregon Health and Science University for purposes of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program.
Requires pharmacy services administrative organizations operating in this state to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services and creates rules for licensing requirements.
Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority, a coordinated care organization or a county to contract with a recovery residence to provide housing supports to individuals with substance use disorders only if the recovery residence has been certified by a recovery residence certifying organization.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to increase by 30 percent the reimbursement rates for addiction medicine services.
Establishes the Higher Education Behavioral Health Workforce Expansion Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of the Oregon Arts Commission.
Appropriates moneys to support arts and cultural organizations in Oregon.
Creates additional rules and requirements for pharmacy benefit managers and a policy or certificate of health insurance or other contract providing for the reimbursement of the cost of a prescription drug.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Human Access Project for harmful algal bloom mitigation.
Increases the amount of total tax credits allowed for certified film production development contributions made to the Oregon Production Investment Fund.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by the Public Employees' Benefit Board and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within the scope of their practice if the services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians, physician associates or nurse practioners.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
In committee30
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
Establishes a complaint process for health care providers to submit complaints to the Department of Consumer and Business Services or the Oregon Health Authority regarding health insurers or coordinated care organizations.
Requires insurers to reimburse mental health professionals at the same rate as physicians and other mental health professionals for the same services.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and the delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Oasis of Praise International Ministries to acquire, renovate and rehabilitate real property.
Prohibits insurers offering policies or certificates of health insurance and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring that a claim for reimbursement of a prescription drug include a modifier or other indicator that the drug is a 340B drug.
Prohibits residential landlords from charging a tenant additional rent or fees because of a tenant's pet.
Prohibits state and local governments from restricting certain activities related to blockchain protocols and digital assets.
Includes a liquor store agent appointed by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission in the definition of "licensee" for purposes of alcoholic beverages laws.
Requires a residential care facility to provide a resident with an itemized monthly bill and reimburse a resident for any services for which the resident paid that the facility did not provide.
Specifies the type of change in the system for selling containers of distilled liquor that qualifies a person appointed to operate a liquor store for business loss compensation.
Directs the Legislative Revenue Officer to study land value taxation and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to revenue.
Provides that home care workers and personal support workers have the right to labor union representation in interviews, investigations or administrative reviews that could result in disciplinary action.
Creates the Oregon Parks for All Subaccount within the Parks Donation Trust Fund.
Creates a volunteer registry with the State Board of Architect Examiners for commercial interior designers.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish a fee-for-service rate for all medical assistance recipients at a certain rate for certain services.
Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five years.
Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five years.
Requires a person that advertises, solicits, markets, sells or offers a health care cost sharing arrangement in this state or enters into a health care cost sharing arrangement with a resident must register with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Instructs the Director of Agriculture to employ an organic policy special assistant to the director.
Requires home health agencies and home hospice programs to establish home health and home hospice staffing committees to develop staffing plans.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys available through the federal State Small Business Credit Initiative to Lit Motors, Inc., to fund the manufacture of electric vehicles in Oregon, with attendant economic benefits.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for the purpose of improving a portion of Southeast Powell Boulevard.
Exempts from the requirement to obtain a money transmission license a person that assists with or facilitates payment for goods or services under the terms of a contract with a payee if the person does not engage in money transmission and if payment to the person satisfies or otherwise extinguishes a payor's obligation to the payee.
Allows a party who is entering into marriage or a registered domestic partnership to change the party's middle name back to the party's middle name at birth.
Modifies provisions regarding the use of restraint and involuntary seclusion on certain young people.
Modifies requirements for certain claims processes for health care providers and insurers.
Allows a licensee, permittee or certificate holder authorized to import, export, sell, distribute, ship or deliver wine to import, export, sell, distribute, ship and deliver low-proof spirit beverages.
Establishes the Task Force on Electromagnetic Weapons to study the usage of electromagnetic weapons in this state and identify gaps in Oregon law that need to be revised to address such usage.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits per-visit compensation for home health care and home hospice care staff.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Describes when a person is in need of treatment because the person is a danger to self, a danger to others, unable to provide for basic personal needs or has a chronic mental disorder.
Modifies requirements for the summer learning program.
Designates August 25 of each year as Oregon Adoption Day.
Allows tenant to terminate a tenancy during the fixed term without penalty upon 30 days' notice if the landlord delivers certain notices terminating the tenancy in 90 days or more.
Requires certain health insurers to credit any amount an enrollee pays directly to a provider toward out-of-pocket costs and deductibles in certain circumstances.
Provides certain agricultural workers with rights to express breast milk in the workplace.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to the Center for Public Service at Portland State University to conduct, in consultation with Oregon State University, a study examining the labor standards and working experiences of farmworkers in this state.
Requires a dental laboratory to register with the Health Licensing Office.
Requires that a school integrated pest management plan be reviewed at least once every five years.
Applies the prevailing rate of wage to certain off-site bespoke work fabricated, preconstructed, assembled or constructed in accordance with specifications for a particular public works.
Establishes a statewide goal for homeownership.
Prohibits willfully selling or using software that is designed to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade a control or measure, including a security measure or an access control system, that an operator, ticket seller or reseller establishes or uses to ensure an equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for an entertainment event, including a public or private presale of admission tickets.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives.
Includes pharmacy services administrative organizations within the definition of pharmacies for the purpose of ensuring that pharmacy benefit managers are subject to laws regulating their activities even if their contracts are with pharmacy services administrative organizations.
Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that any revisions to the academic content standards for certain core subjects include standards that address the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to those causes and effects.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative.
Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative.
Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters.
Passed the House · 2
Increases the state transient lodging tax.
Prohibits a person that offers or sells consumer goods or services in this state from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the consumer goods or services that does not include all fees and charges that a resident must pay to complete the transaction in the consumer goods or services other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction or reasonable charges actually incurred for shipping the goods or providing the services.
Out of committee · 24
Establishes the Task Force on Licensed Health Care Services in Oregon Schools.
Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse dental care organizations for dental services provided to medical assistance recipients at a rate no less than 59.8 percent of the average rate paid by insurers nationwide.
Requires community colleges to pay part-time facultya certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time facultywho teach comparable courses.
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 a specified number of proposed measures 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.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services.
Increases the aggregate amount of tax credits allowed to taxpayers in a tax year for donations for individual development accounts.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction prevention services.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program.
Establishes a state gun dealer licensing program.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, out of the General Fund, for deposit in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a grant program to fund basic needs programming.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Program.
Authorizes lottery bonds for construction of the James Beard Public Market in Portland.
Phases in the requirement that school districts offer lunch and breakfast to students at no charge, regardless of household income.
Directs the State Department of Energy to develop an energy storage transition plan for the critical energy infrastructure hub.
Requires specified agencies to consider the effects of a proposed action on older adult populations.
Establishes the Task Force on Eelgrass Resources.
Directs the Department of Land Conservation and Development to take certain actions related to rocky habitat management.
Establishes the Senator Aaron Woods Commission on Artificial Intelligence within the Department of Justice.
Expands the requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subjects of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Establishes a quarterly allocation of lottery moneys to the Housing and Community Services Department for the individual development account program.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
Adds school districts that apply for and receive a matching fund grant from the Department of Education to the definition of "qualifying agency" for the purpose of applying apprenticeship requirements in connection with constructing public improvement projects.
In committee · 15
Directs the Department of Corrections to determine the last-known address of adults in custody, if the address is readily known or available to an adult in custody, and submit information to the Portland State University Population Research Center.
Requires school districts and public charter schools to implement a schedule for high schools that does not start regular instructional hours before 8:30 a.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in the Universal Representation Fund.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Prohibits a person from raising octopus for the purpose of human consumption or participating in the sale or offer for sale of octopus that was raised for human consumption.
Permits the testing of highly automated vehicles on highways of this state under certain circumstances.
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish an Exceptional Home Care Worker Certification program.
Requires the Employment Relations Board to establish and maintain a registry system for persons to register as union representatives.
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Establishes certain requirements concerning aquaculture.
Requires the Department of Human Services to update its 2022 estimate of costs to implement youth experiencing homelessness programs.
Prohibits a mail-order, specialty or online pharmacy from transferring prescription drugs intended for dispensation to a patient to a pharmacy located in this state unless the pharmacy has agreed to receive the prescription drugs.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a rental licensing program for the annual licensing of dwelling units for rental or vacation occupancy.
Lowers the thresholds above which, in applicable circumstances, controllers are subject to regulation in processing consumers' personal data.