Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Deb Patterson
Sponsored
Became law6
Allows State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to issue temporary license to perform duties of pharmacy technician.
Adds certain hospital, medical and infectious waste incinerators to facilities at which covered drugs under drug takeback program may be disposed of.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
Requires owner or operator of municipal solid waste incinerator to develop plan for continuous monitoring or sampling of specified emissions for 12 consecutive months.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to distribute moneys to Area Health Education Center program of Oregon Health and Science University for specified purposes.
Prohibits employer from retaliating or discriminating against employee or prospective employee who, in good faith and with no reasonable alternative, refuses exposure arising from hazardous condition at place of employment.
Out of committee11
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study tardive dyskinesia and other related involuntary movement disorders.
Allows person who retires from Department of State Police as police officer to participate in group benefit plan offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board with no increase in premiums.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organizations to annually report to Department of Consumer and Business Services information relating to prices, rebates, fees and similar information.
Requires dental laboratory to register with Health Licensing Office.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program to provide financial support to certified dental sealant programs that promote and engage in oral health care coordination activities.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study policies and practices governing provision of and payments for health services in state medical assistance program.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Amends allowable purposes of Emergency Housing Account to include account moneys to be used for grants to assist companion animals of individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Establishes Oregon Memory Net pilot project to provide opportunity for primary care providers to refer for memory assessment at neurologic clinic patients showing signs of cognitive decline or impairment but who have not been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to administer two-year demonstration project in two counties to test whether expanding scope of compensable services provided by community health workers can improve outcomes for low-income families and children at risk of entering foster care system.
In committee14
Requires Department of Human Services to study emerging issues related to skilled nursing facility reporting requirements, licensing requirements, staffing requirements and reimbursement rates.
Directs Department of Human Services to take specified steps to enhance capacity of long term care workforce and increase quality of long term care services.
Prohibits sale of new clothes washers unless washers are equipped with built-in or in-line microfiber filtration system.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to develop, implement and administer Oregon Imagination Library Project to improve reading proficiency and high school graduation rates by providing enrolled children with one age-appropriate book per child each month.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish process to receive and review health care profession scope of practice requests and impact statements.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Human Services for Hunger Task Force to support state's policy on hunger.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to offer financial incentives to increase number of nurses in Oregon including by paying stipends to hospitals that provide clinical training opportunities to nurses.
Extends health care provider incentive program to health care providers who are students enrolled in health professional training programs leading to licensure as licensed practical nurse or registered nurse.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization to pay reasonable per diem rate for patient whose discharge from hospital is delayed due to circumstances beyond hospital's control.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to conduct long-term study of cumulative impacts of air contaminants in areas surrounding municipal solid waste incinerators.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules for licensing urgent care centers and specifies requirements.
Allows Health Licensing Office to issue license to practice health care administration to qualified applicant.
Requires licensed hospitals to include in hospital's discharge policy specified procedures for discharge of homeless patients.
Authorizes city within Marion County to control or direct disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste.
Carried from the House
Became law6
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to identify best methodology for determining appropriate number of students on workload for certain school-based health practitioners.
Declares children who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind have same rights and potential as children who are not deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Imposes new requirements on hospitals with respect to financial assistance policies and processes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 32
Directs Department of Revenue to develop schedule allowing personal income taxpayers to voluntarily report taxpayers' self-identified race and ethnicity identifiers.
Requires students to complete one half-credit of higher education and career path skills and one half-credit of personal financial education as requirements for high school diploma.
Makes permanent provision excluding certain employees of Oregon State Police from meaning of supervisory employee for purposes of public employment.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, State Board of Education and Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to collaborate on developing curricula supplements related to dangers of certain drugs and to laws that provide immunity or other protections related to drug or alcohol use.
Authorizes community colleges to offer Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees.
Modifies legislative findings concerning alternative incarceration programs.
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene foam container in sales of prepared food.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules allowing restaurants to allow consumers to fill consumer-owned container with food.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt and maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern used in cosmetic products and to periodically review and revise list.
Directs Department of Human Services to maintain inventory of luggage carriers for use when transporting personal effects of foster children.
Prohibits Department of Human Services from using specified moneys received on behalf of child in care for maintenance costs.
Requires closed-captioned television receivers in public areas within places of public accommodation to display closed captioning unless exception applies.
Directs Oregon 529 Savings Board to provide information to designated beneficiaries of ABLE accounts regarding potential impact to benefits and services if contributions are made to workplace retirement account.
Modifies when use of force upon minor child or student is justifiable and not criminal.
Designates fourth Saturday of November of each year as Holodomor Remembrance Day.
Authorizes Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to conduct comprehensive inspection of any place of employment as deemed necessary by department based on prior violation history of place of employment.
Requires payment of prevailing rate of wage for demolition of or removal of hazardous waste from road, highway, building, structure or improvement in public improvement contract that uses $750,000 or more of public funds or that occurs on real property that state agency owns, including demolition or removal of hazardous waste that occurs in connection with construction, reconstruction, renovation or painting of road, highway, building, structure or improvement.
Requires landlord to allow dwelling to be used as family child care home, subject to conditions.
Caps annual rent increases for residential tenancies.
Permits consumers to obtain from controller that processes consumer personal data confirmation as to whether controller is processing consumer's personal data and categories of personal data controller is processing, list of specific third parties to which controller has disclosed consumer's personal data or any personal data and copy of all of consumer's personal data that controller has processed or is processing.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Allows Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to require training on implicit bias and state and federal fair housing laws for real estate appraisers.
Directs county juvenile department to ensure that specified youth or adjudicated youth receives sex trafficking screening.
Extends sunset on certain restrictions on growing canola within Willamette Valley Protected District to July 1, 2024.
Modifies duration of Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining orders .
Modifies abbreviated school day program requirements.
Creates crime of sexual abuse by fraudulent representation.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and maintain regional family support networks for families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations.
Modifies crimes related to involuntary servitude and human trafficking.
Authorizes board of directors of rural fire protection district to annex to district, under certain circumstances, lands that are within coverage area of district.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board.
Passed the Senate · 5
Requires Department of Transportation, Oregon Department of Administrative Services and any contracting agency that uses funds from American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to study use of apprentices in projects for public works and other public improvement projects.
Authorizes school district to use public funds for out-of-state placement of students only if specified criteria are satisfied.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include assault of public transit vehicle operator acting in course of official duty.
Prohibits state from paying costs of travel to or from Oregon for employee in state service who telecommutes from principal worksite more than 60 miles outside this state, unless collective bargaining agreement provides otherwise or essential requirements of position make it necessary for employee to telecommute from outside this state.
Allows Department of Revenue to establish electronic means for collection of elector signatures in support of inclusion of entity on schedule of income tax return for purpose of receiving contribution by means of checkoff.
Out of committee · 15
Authorizes State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish by rule requirements or prohibitions concerning angling, taking, hunting, trapping or possessing of wildlife defined as predatory animal.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to perform certain responsibilities related to Healthy and Safe Schools Plan .
Establishes state policy regarding natural climate solutions.
Establishes Summer and After-School Learning and Enrichment Grant Program.
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.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to modify amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with up to two agencies providing agency with choice services.
Requires Department of Human Services to administer program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to individuals' income or resources.
Establishes Food for All Oregonians Program in Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to residents of this state who would qualify for federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for immigration status or lack of Social Security number.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Pueblo Unido PDX for facilitating creation of certain language proficiency evaluations.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board and directs board to create comprehensive plan for implementing Universal Health Plan .
Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries.
Directs Department of Education to establish school media program standards and provide technical assistance related to those standards.
Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges to develop recommendations to address challenges faced by hospitals in discharging patients to appropriate post-acute care settings.
In committee · 15
Requires school districts to prepare ventilation verification assessment and take certain actions based on recommendations that result from assessment.
Adds two members who are physician assistants or retired physician assistants to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health resources.
Requires owners of multifamily rental housing to offer right of first refusal to tenants who form tenant committee and membership entity.
Directs Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to appoint long term care wage board to examine factors that may present challenges to recruiting and retaining long term care employees.
Creates Commission for Indigenous Communities.
Establishes personal financial education as requirement for high school diploma.
Requires public body that procures construction services for certain qualified projects that use $750,000 or more in funds of public agency or moneys made available to state under federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to enter into project labor agreement that, at minimum, provides for payment of wages at or above prevailing rate of wage, to use apprentices to perform at least 15 percent of work hours that workers in apprenticeable occupations perform on project and to establish and execute plan for outreach, recruitment and retention of women, minority individuals and veterans to perform work on project.
Requires each school district board to develop written plan establishing climate change instructional program for kindergarten through grade 12 no later than June 1, 2026.
Establishes COFA Food Assistance Program to provide nutrition assistance to COFA citizens who would qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits but for their immigration status and who have incomes at or below federal poverty guidelines.
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Creates Commission for Original Peoples from South America, Central America and Mexico.
Makes unlawful practice for employer or employment agency to advertise job, promotion or transfer opportunity without disclosing pay range and employment benefits in job posting.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Abolishes annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time and maintains Oregon on standard time for all 12 months of calendar year, except in portion of Oregon in Mountain Time Zone.