Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Deb Patterson
Sponsored
Became law5
Adds direct care worker or representative of direct care worker to Quality Measurement Council.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study cost differences in hormone replacement drugs used by men and hormone replacement drugs used by women and report findings to Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Provides that person may not engage in business as pharmaceutical representative without obtaining license from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Establishes Prescription Drug Affordability Board in Department of Consumer and Business Services to review prices for nine drugs and at least one insulin product, from among drugs reported to Prescription Drug Price Transparency program by prescription drug manufacturers, drugs reported by insurers in filings and insulin drugs marketed in this state, that are expected to create affordability challenges for health systems or high out-of-pocket costs for patients in Oregon based on specified criteria.
Requires that report of death for certain decedent who was homeless at time of death indicate that decedent's residence address was "Domicile Unknown.".
Passed the Senate1
Provides that court must presume that resolution agreement that ends dispute over alleged infringement of patent or violation of other protection for protected drug has anticompetitive effects if alleged infringer receives item of value as part of or in connection with resolution agreement or if alleged infringer agrees to limit or stop researching, developing, manufacturing, marketing or selling competing drug.
Out of committee2
Directs Department of Education to select school districts to participate in pilot program that enables school districts to deliver mental health screenings to students in grades 9 through 12.
Establishes Office of Pharmaceutical Purchasing in Oregon Health Authority and specifies duties.
In committee1
Provides additional $10 per month to recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to purchase personal hygiene items.
Carried from the House
Became law3
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to disclose individually identifiable information related to COVID-19 to certain persons and under certain circumstances.
Requires parents of child who is deaf or deafblind or who is hard of hearing to be provided information about relevant services and placements offered by school district, education service district, regional programs and Oregon School for the Deaf whenever individualized family service plan or individualized education program is developed, revised or reviewed.
Passed the House1
Requires board of directors of publicly traded corporation to have specified proportion of female directors and directors who are members of underrepresented communities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Requires health benefit plans to cover emergency medical services transports.
Extends for one year sunset on Task Force on Universal Health Care and extends deadline for task force to submit recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Allows physician assistant to receive results of blood test of source person on behalf of certain person who, in performance of person's official duties, comes into contact with blood, bodily fluid or other potentially infectious material of source person.
Allows land division to separate dwelling units for new middle housing allowed in cities.
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.
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.
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.
Requires Department of Revenue to issue license to qualified retailers of tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems that do not hold license or other authorization issued by city or local public health authority.
Directs State Workforce and Talent Development Board to establish Committee for Continuous Improvement to assess effectiveness of Oregon's public workforce development system.
Prohibits grandfathered health plan from imposing preexisting condition exclusion.
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.
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.
Requires Department of Human Services to establish specified requirements for use of acuity-based staffing tool by residential care facilities.
Establishes Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to operate statewide immigrant and refugee integration strategy.
Prohibits scrap metal business from purchasing or receiving catalytic converters, except from commercial seller or owner of vehicle from which catalytic converter was removed.
Passed the Senate · 1
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Out of committee · 4
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.
Adds two members who are physician assistants or retired physician assistants and one additional public member to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for purposes of funding Environmental Crimes and Cultural Resources Enforcement Unit of department.
In committee · 1
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.