Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Cedric Hayden
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disclose certain patient information to dental directors for specified purposes.
Out of committee2
Provides funding to peer-run organizations in Portland metropolitan area, southern Oregon region and eastern and central Oregon region to operate peer respite centers to provide peer respite services to individuals with mental illness who experience acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain.
Permits Oregon Health Authority to take steps necessary to ensure that authority pays lowest cost for prescription drugs purchased for recipients of medical assistance, including by entering into agreement with third party to be purchasing agent .
In committee9
Reduces amount of lien against personal injury judgment, settlement or compromise secured by recipient of assistance by procurement costs of recipient in securing personal injury judgment, settlement or compromise.
Requires school districts to provide instruction in oral health.
Establishes standard for Department of Human Services payments to child care providers in economically disadvantaged geographic areas.
Requires health insurance that covers alcohol and drug treatment to cover treatment when provided to students by school districts or charter schools directly or indirectly by contracting with licensed providers.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to partner with nonprofit organization with expertise in school nursing services to study and develop recommendations on health care and health services provided in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
Directs school districts to have comprehensive health services program.
Removes sunset on provisions that allow certain nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Imposes personal income tax at flat rate if taxpayer has adjusted gross income below threshold amount.
Transfers Leaburg Fish Hatchery from State Department of Fish and Wildlife to State Parks and Recreation Department.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Makes person holding resident disabled veteran hunting license eligible for additional preference points in controlled hunt permit preference system.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Requires specified professional regulatory boards to require persons authorized to practice professions regulated by board to complete cultural competency continuing education.
Authorizes dentists to prescribe and administer vaccines.
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to , because of known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition of job applicant or employee, take certain actions related to reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition.
Establishes Task Force on Access to Quality Affordable Child Care to study ways to increase use of and access to child care subsidies and to report recommendations to Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2020.
Authorizes Attorney General, district attorney or court to award penalty to public records requester, or order fee waiver or fee reduction, if public body responds to request with undue delay or fails to be responsive to request.
Requires district attorney to include sexual assault nurse examiner or hospital representative in sexual assault response team organized by district attorney to adopt protocols addressing response to sexual assault victims.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Designates October 9 of each year as PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day.
Requires correctional facilities to provide tampons, sanitary pads, postpartum pads and panty liners to certain incarcerated persons at no cost.
Establishes Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board in Oregon Health Authority.
Provides that current or former foster child under 25 years of age is eligible for tuition waiver at institution of higher education if current or former foster child is enrolled in courses totaling one or more credit hours for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Expands types of entities that may receive grant from Farm-to-School Grant Program to purchase food produced or processed in state or to identify sources of foods or to process foods.
For purposes of homestead property tax deferral program for seniors and persons with disabilities, changes prohibition on homestead with outstanding deferred property taxes from being pledged as security for reverse mortgage to prohibition on homestead that is pledged as security for reverse mortgage from being granted deferral under program.
Directs Department of State Police to study how to increase and improve criminal justice resources relating to missing and murdered Native American women in Oregon and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020.
Directs Department of Corrections, in cooperation with Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, to establish pilot program to provide legal services that assist women who are incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to reenter and reintegrate into local communities, to reduce womens' vulnerability to domestic violence and to obtain employment, housing services and other benefits.
Establishes statutory authority for Oregon Psychiatric Access Line program operated by Oregon Health and Science University and financed by Legislative Assembly through appropriations.
Requires Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee to publish on website of Oregon Health Authority within seven days recommendations concerning Practitioner-Managed Prescription Drug Plan.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens.
Eliminates requirement that certificate issued to cosmetic practitioner include practitioner's address.
Expands Housing and Community Services Department's use of Home Ownership Assistance Account to support households with below area median income and to support organizations' homeownership programs with any percentage of home construction or rehabilitation costs.
Expands higher education tuition grants offered to qualified members of Oregon National Guard by permitting grant to be used for undergraduate degree program at Oregon Health and Science University or qualifying private post-secondary institutions or for program or curriculum designed to lead to certificate of completion at community college, public university, Oregon Health and Science University or qualifying private post-secondary institution.
Expands list of hospitals whose medical staff may qualify for specified income tax credit.
Modifies requirements for school to qualify as small high school for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Expands Telecommunication Devices Access Program to include provision of communication facilitators.
Limits reasons counties may deny expansion of certain schools on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires institutions of higher education to both adopt written policies and require certain individuals to participate in annual training on sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
Passed the House · 6
Allows pharmacist to prescribe and dispense pseudoephedrine to person who is at least 18 years of age and who provides to pharmacist person's valid government-issued photo identification.
For purposes of eligibility of property for homestead property tax deferral program, creates floor of $250,000 for maximum allowable real market value of homestead.
Allows counties to partition and rezone up to 200 acres of lands within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region from exclusive farm use to residential uses.
Requires division of Department of Human Services that administers Oregon Project Independence, in collaboration with area agencies, to study statewide expansion of Oregon Project Independence and resource needs of division if Oregon Project Independence is expanded statewide.
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Extends sunset date for exemption from use fuel tax for diesel fuel blended with at least 20 percent biodiesel derived from used cooking oil.
Out of committee · 5
Provides that fixed percentage of certain forecasted video lottery revenues be transferred to counties for economic development.
Provides funding for grant program under which Department of Education awards grants to school districts for percentage of certain student transportation costs for which school district does not receive any amount in distributions from State School Fund or any amount related to transit activities.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Residential Solid Fuel Heating Air Quality Improvement Fund to fund community efforts to promote economic development and improve public health by reducing emissions from solid fuel burning devices that burn wood.
Requires certain state agencies and colleges at Oregon State University to conduct certain studies on opportunities for greenhouse gas sequestration by and emissions reductions from activities related to Oregon's natural and working lands and in Oregon's forest products, agricultural and building materials industries, transportation sector and electricity sector.
In committee · 12
Allows Oregon Liquor Control Commission to enter into interstate agreements with agencies of other states for purpose of ensuring multistate enforcement of standards for wine consistent with standards of state where wine was produced.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in construction and construction materials industries.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance construction and improvement of courthouses.
Requires school districts to provide instruction in oral health.
Extends by five years certain provisions that allow nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Modifies crime of promoting prostitution to include knowingly recruiting, persuading or encouraging, or attempting to recruit, persuade or encourage, another person to engage in prostitution.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
Requires local public health authorities and coordinated care organizations to provide funding to support school-based programs providing dental disease prevention services.
Establishes subtraction from personal taxable income for eligible rental payments made by eligible renters.
Provides that portion of McKenzie Highway shall also be known as Johnny Miner Memorial Highway.
Exempts receipts from sales of certain agricultural products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Exempts receipts from sales of basic necessities from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.