Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Sara Gelser Blouin
Sponsored
Became law16
Specifies that on-site inspections must be in person for health care facilities, home health agencies, residential care facilities, adult foster homes, hospice programs and qualified residential treatment programs.
Prohibits insurance policy or contract that provides coverage for prescription drug to require prescription for drug prescribed for medical assistance recipient to be filled or refilled at mail order pharmacy or to require prescription to be filled or refilled at pharmacy that is not local and enrolled in medical assistance program.
Modifies laws relating to youth suicide intervention and prevention to include children 5 to 10 years of age.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design question or questions allowing each student to identify whether student is parent or person acting as parent or legal guardian that may be placed on one or more forms used on annual basis to collect demographic information by public post-secondary institutions of education.
Modifies definition of "slayer" to include individuals who are found responsible or guilty except for insanity of taking person's life.
Removes term "mentally defective" from statutes defining sexual offenses.
Includes as unlawful practice medical provider's denial of treatment that is likely to benefit patient based on patient's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to require employee or prospective employee to possess or present valid driver license as condition of employment or continuation of employment.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide certain notices to children and wards whom department placed in out-of-state residential facilities between January 1, 2016, and June 30, 2020, and upon request to provide representatives of children and wards with certain documentation and information.
Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of children in care by certain programs.
Requires Department of Human Services to establish specified requirements for use of acuity-based staffing tool by residential care facilities.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board and private insurers to provide insurance coverage to adult disabled children of insureds under certain circumstances.
Requires residential care referral agent to be registered with Department of Human Services.
Exempts from disclosure as public record personally identifiable information about child under age of 16 years that is submitted to State Fish and Wildlife Commission or agent of commission to obtain license, tag or permit under wildlife laws.
Removes sunset on post-graduate scholar program.
Authorizes rural fire protection district to acquire real property or easement for purpose of establishing fire evacuation route, to construct or maintain fire evacuation route or to participate in agreement related to fire evacuation route.
Passed the Senate1
Requires insurer and health care service contractor to count payments made on behalf of enrollee for costs of care toward enrollee's out-of-pocket maximum or cost-sharing.
Out of committee4
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to individuals' income or resources.
Prohibits placement of youths in private youth correction facilities.
In committee6
Allows counties to approve livestock and livestock-affiliated exercise, therapy and counseling on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Adds flashing yellow beacons to list of traffic control devices.
Directs Department of Justice to adopt procedures for payment of crime victims' counsel for representation of child crime victims.
Allows surviving spouse or disabled heir of individual whose homestead was granted deferral under homestead property tax deferral program to continue deferral without having owned or occupied homestead for five years.
Allows students, including students receiving special education, to take additional two years to complete high school.
Requires that directors of district school boards be nominated for, and elected to, office based on zones of school district.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Requires person that rents utility vehicle to contracting agency to provide records that describe in detail results of most recent inspection that person performed or had performed on utility vehicle's traction, structure, power train, control components and related parts and equipment in compliance with specified rules, regulations or standards.
Directs Department of Transportation to ensure that membership of advisory committees reflects racial and ethnic and ability composition of Oregon.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Creates crime of intimidation by display of a noose.
Extends for one year sunset on Task Force on Universal Health Care and extends deadline for task force to submit recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Creates rebuttable presumption that person violated prohibition against retaliation or discrimination against employee or prospective employee if person takes certain action against employee or prospective employee within 60 days after employee or prospective employee has engaged in certain protected activities.
Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia and who has not previously established residence in any state or territory of United States other than Oregon qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities and is eligible to receive state and university scholarships or other financial aid.
Incorporates certain provisions of federal Indian Child Welfare Act into Oregon laws relating to youth offenders adjudicated for status offenses and to adoptions.
Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects in schools that qualify for certain federal assistance.
Adds direct care worker or representative of direct care worker to Quality Measurement Council.
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.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Directs presiding officers of each house of Legislative Assembly to represent legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with legislative department employee bargaining units.
Establishes Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to operate statewide immigrant and refugee integration strategy.
Modifies provisions relating to providing results of tests to patients.
Vetoed · 1
Allows operator of motorcycle to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Passed the Senate · 1
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Out of committee · 3
Creates civil claim for wrongful conviction.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon, qualify for medical assistance through Oregon Supplemental Income Program and lack access to affordable dental coverage.
Establishes Oregon Brain Injury Board to administer programs paid for by Oregon Brain Injury Fund to provide service coordination and skills training to individuals with brain injuries, provide educational information to increase awareness and understanding of issues and needs related to brain injuries and to provide grants to support research into treatment of brain injuries.
In committee · 6
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grants to eligible agencies to provide immigration-related services and supports, and education and outreach, to immigrant communities.
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group to study media program standards developed by State Board of Education and to report results of study to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to education.
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.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on racist history of this country and state.
Provides additional $10 per month to recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to purchase personal hygiene items.
Changes composition of governing board for public universities.