Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Hai Pham
Sponsored
Became law3
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Limits ability of insurers offering dental benefit to require reimbursement of claims by credit card or electronic funds transfer.
Allows Oregon Board of Dentistry to require applicant for certification as dental assistant to pass written examination.
Passed the House1
Prohibits Oregon Board of Dentistry from requiring applicant for certification as dental assistant to pass written examination for radiological proficiency.
Out of committee3
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to institutions of higher education and organizations that administer training programs to develop training and instructional programs that prepare students to enter into behavioral health workforce.
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.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish Oral Health Advisory Committee and Office of Oral Health.
In committee2
Establishes Parkinson's disease registry.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits health benefit plans from imposing prior authorization or other utilization review requirements on coverage of proton beam therapy that do not apply to coverage of radiation therapy.
Passed the Senate1
Requires passage of specified examination for certification as nursing assistant.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Establishes program within Apprenticeship and Training Division of Bureau of Labor and Industries to make grants to local service districts and local joint committees that develop and administer pilot projects for firefighter apprenticeship training.
Extends sunset from 2024 to 2034 on provisions allowing retired member of Public Employees Retirement System to be reemployed by participating public employer for unlimited number of hours without reduction in pension benefits.
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 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.
Specifies physician assistant scope of practice and duties of care when practicing medicine.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Removes one member who has degree of Doctor of Medicine and adds one member who is physician assistant to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Directs Early Learning Council to adopt rules to establish eligibility for certain children to participate in Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
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.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
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.
Designates August 4 of each year as Bracero Program Day.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
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.
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.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail if dispensary is in city in Marion County located in certain area and city was impacted by 2020 wildfires.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Passed the House · 3
Permits employer to pay employees at different compensation levels pursuant to retention bonus provided that employer does not discriminate in payment of retention bonus, and that retention bonus accounts for entire compensation differential.
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 · 11
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to be used for specified purposes related to expanding behavioral health provider workforce.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care, in consultation with Department of Human Services, to convene work group to study optimal use of child care navigators to support access to and enrollment in child care and early learning programs.
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.
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.
Establishes Welcome and Reception Program within Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to provide immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers with support services.
Requires Southern Oregon University, subject to appropriation of sufficient moneys, to address state's behavioral and mental health needs by materially increasing number of mental health practitioners who graduate in southern Oregon and teaching behavioral and mental health competencies through alternative academic pathways.
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.
Requires medical assistance to include continuous glucose monitor for specified recipients of medical assistance.
In committee · 8
Requires health insurance coverage of health care interpretation services that are legally mandated.
Authorizes county to declare shortage of health care and human services personnel and apply to Oregon Health Authority for moneys to make grants to employers to alleviate shortage by offering certain benefits to potential workers and educators.
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 Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring licensed long term care facilities, outpatient renal dialysis facilities and residential facilities to acquire and maintain backup power sources to be used during power outages.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grant to nonprofit organization to plan and develop community center that provides resources relevant to Vietnamese speakers.
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.