Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Sara Gelser Blouin
Sponsored
Became law15
Requires insurer to pay claims up to maximum coverage under policy of uninsured motorist coverage based on insured's total damages for personal injuries.
Requires each public university to allow students, faculty and staff to identify sexual orientation on forms used to collect demographic data.
Allows certain nonprofit charitable corporations to own and operate dental clinics that serve children with special needs.
Provides that students in youth care center within detention facility are to receive educational services through Juvenile Detention Education Program.
Establishes certain workplace protections for domestic workers.
Imposes limits on instances when student in fifth grade or lower may be subjected to out-of-school suspension or expulsion from school.
Prohibits use of expulsion to address truancy.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.
Requires Secretary of State to conduct investigation of Community Housing Trust Account, within Developmental Disabilities Community Housing Fund.
Adds personal support workers and home care workers to list of mandatory reporters of abuse of children, elderly persons and other vulnerable persons.
Modifies provisions that allow students who are not residents of school district to attend school of school district when school district and resident school district give consent.
Requires state health plans, health insurers, health care providers or health care clearinghouses to provide, upon request, one copy of individually identifiable health information free of charge to individual, or to personal representative, when individual is appealing denial of Social Security disability benefits.
Requires public universities, community colleges and Oregon-based private universities and colleges to adopt written protocol for victims of sexual assault.
Directs Oregon 529 Savings Board to establish by rule qualified state ABLE Act program as described in federal Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014.
Creates position of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide outreach and assistance to veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and to spouses and dependents of such veterans.
Out of committee5
Directs Department of Education to assist school districts in achieving specified goals related to school discipline.
Requires qualified nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities to pay at least minimum wage set forth in state or federal law to individuals with disabilities.
Establishes timelines by which evaluations must be completed to determine eligibility for special education.
Establishes Task Force on Housing for Persons with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities.
Authorizes employee of certain employers to request flexible or predictable work schedule.
In committee13
Modifies scope of justifiable use of physical force for purposes of criminal prosecution.
Requires health benefit plan to reimburse cost of pharmacist consultation that meets specified criteria.
Requires Department of Corrections to adopt rules that prohibit department's correctional facilities from having contract with provider of telephone services under which department or facility receives payment for telephone services provided to inmates of facility.
Directs Department of Human Services to identify and enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations to assist homeless youth in obtaining identification cards from Department of Transportation.
Prohibits public universities from adopting school policies with respect to noncredit academic activities, or from refusing student application to, or enrollment or participation in, noncredit academic activity, solely on basis that student was not awarded standard high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate, or because student received modified or extended diploma.
Establishes process for certifying manufacturers for purposes of testing, selling or operating autonomous vehicles on highways of state.
Prohibits eye bank, tissue bank, procurement organization, hospital or physician from considering any disability of potential recipient of anatomical gift except to extent that disability makes potential recipient medically unsuitable to receive anatomical gift.
Establishes Kindergarten Through Grade Three Reading Initiative Program to assist school districts in implementing early reading literacy programs.
Requires public body, except special district, to reserve one percent of appropriation for constructing, reconstructing or renovating park or public building for purpose of renovating or improving existing park or public building to meet current accessibility standards for persons with disabilities that are promulgated under Americans with Disabilities Act and regulations adopted under Act.
Creates defense to charge of prostitution for person under 18 years of age.
Creates defense to charge of prostitution for person under 18 years of age.
Exempts, for purposes of state law, dishonorable discharges from Armed Forces of the United States that are based solely on sexual orientation.
Requires that public bodies develop and implement policies for securely removing personal information from digital data storage devices and other electronic data storage devices owned by public body, leased by public body or otherwise under control of public body before selling, donating, recycling or otherwise disposing of device.
Carried from the House
Became law6
Requires Oregon Health Authority and insurers offering health benefit plans that reimburse costs of physician services to reimburse community assessment center for child abuse medical assessment and related services.
Creates process by which person found guilty except for insanity can apply to court for order setting aside judgment of guilty except for insanity.
Provides that person who records another person's intimate areas commits crime of invasion of personal privacy.
Disallows all filing fees, service fees and hearing fees in action for court's protective stalking order, even if stalking order is not only relief sought in action.
Increases amount transferred from State School Fund to High Cost Disabilities Account each fiscal year.
Establishes privilege in civil, criminal, administrative and school proceedings for certain communications between persons seeking services related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking and victim services programs and advocates.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Specifies form of notice that cooperative must provide to directors, members, shareholders and other persons and when notice is effective.
Repeals sunset on provisions related to low carbon fuel standards.
Requires all employers to implement sick time for employees.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern for children's health used in children's products and to periodically review and revise list.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to appoint Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership Advisory Committee to advise department regarding Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership and manufacturing economic development in geographic regions located within Willamette Valley and Columbia River corridor.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish training program and specifies elements that program must include.
Permits coach to allow member of school athletic team and nonschool athletic team to participate in athletic event or training at any time after athletic trainer determines that member has not suffered concussion.
Directs Department of Education to designate dyslexia specialist and develop list of training opportunities related to dyslexia.
Extends sunset related to grants distributed to small school districts with one or more small high schools.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules for home studies and placement reports in adoption proceedings that require that equal consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as prospective adoptive parents, and that greater consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as compared to other persons who are not relatives or current caretakers.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe by rule standards for integrating behavioral health services and physical health services in patient centered primary care homes and behavioral health homes.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to solicit applications and select two public universities to design and develop career advising and mentorship pilot program.
Requires State Board of Education to adopt rules under which school personnel may administer medications that treat adrenal insufficiency to students experiencing adrenal crisis.
Out of committee · 6
Requires Department of Human Services to identify applicants for and recipients of assistance under temporary assistance for needy families program who are victims of sexual assault or at risk for being victims of sexual assault.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.
Instructs Bureau of Labor and Industries to increase investigatory staff devoted to investigating complaints of pay equity and gender discrimination by one full-time position.
Directs presiding judge of each judicial district to instruct grand jury to record proceedings except for deliberations and voting .
Directs Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to create program to assist children of incarcerated parents.
In committee · 7
Prohibits law enforcement agencies and officers from profiling based on specified personal characteristics or circumstances of individuals, except when characteristics or circumstances are tied to specific suspect description or credible information related to criminal incident or activity.
Modifies definition of "physical injury" for purposes of criminal code.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Establishes Task Force on Mental Health Care and Treatment to develop detailed changes to statewide system of mental health care and treatment.
Requires coordinated care organization to employ or contract with clinical mental health professionals to provide mental health care and treatment to members of organization.
Requires health insurance policies or certificates that include prescription drug benefits, health benefit plans and the state medical assistance program to cover costs of specified women's health care drugs and services.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to operate 24-hour nurse advice hotline for Oregon residents beginning January 1, 2016.