Bills in the 2025 Regular Session, Senate.
Deb Patterson
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to post information about publicly supported housing on the department's webpage.
Permits sharps and waste pharmaceuticals to be consolidated in a single container, subject to certain requirements.
Designates November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Provides that a licensed physician associate or nurse practitioner may be a medical examiner.
Creates workplace violence prevention requirements for certain health care entities.
Prohibits a management services organization or a shareholder, director, officer or employee of a management services organization from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee of, working as an independent contractor with or otherwise managing, directing the management of or participating in managing a professional medical entity with which the management services organization has a contract for management services.
Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to issue a license to an organ procurement organization to operate an organ transport vehicle.
Passed the Senate2
Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to conform the state building code to accessibility requirements under the Fair Housing Act and to certain American National Standards Institute standards for housing accessibility.
Authorizes a city within Marion County to control or direct the disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste generated within the city.
Out of committee23
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and the labor union representing staff employed in health services at the Department of Corrections, to conduct a market study biennially related to the wages and benefits of health services job classifications at the Department of Corrections institutions.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services for certain programs, reimbursements and incentive payments to support the health care workforce.
Requires certain health insurers to reimburse the cost of primary care providers in an independent practice at the same rate as primary care providers within a hospital-based or hospital-affiliated system for the same services.
Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to support tenants of publicly supported housing when the housing's affordability restrictions are terminated.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the information that a long term care facility must disclose about its owners and operators and the feasibility of implementing an online portal to collect and share information about long term care facilities with the public.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority from the General Fund for the Vaccine Access Program.
Establishes the COFA Shared Services Office to assist COFA citizens in applying for and accessing benefits and services.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Area Health Education Center program of Oregon Health and Science University for supporting the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians.
Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of cervical cancer screenings and follow-up examinations.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Marion-Polk Food Share, Inc., for a capital expansion project.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority toaward grants to local workforce development boards to partner with certain entities toestablish and implement behavioral health education and training programs for high school students.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Directs the Oregon Health Authorityto contract directly withcommunity health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to the Oregon Wellness Program for specified purposes.
Requires dental insurers to follow certain rules for payment and denial of claims.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs.
Requires a hospital or the hospital's health system to report annually to the Oregon Health Authority certain information regarding facility fees that are charged or billed for patient visits at the hospital's or health system's hospital-based facilities.
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for distribution to the Liberty House to provide children's advocacy center services.
Requires an individual or entity to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority before the individual or entity may establish a new hospice program or expand or relocate a hospice program into a new service area.
Directs the Health Licensing Office to issue a nutritionist license to a qualified applicant.
Directs the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to establish a grant program to increase the availability of community-based guardianship programs and county public guardian and conservators for people with complex health care needs who are experiencing hospital discharge difficulties.
In committee26
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study health insurance plans.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
Requires the Department of Human Services to study how it delivers services to children and families.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study medical assistance.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study patient billing.
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study pharmacy.
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to study prescription drugs.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study primary care in Oregon.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study public health.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study substance use disorder.
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study waste management.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to increase reimbursement rates for inpatient psychiatric services provided by hospitals to medical assistance recipients.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
Removes the requirements for notification of substitution and records retention for prescribed biological products.
Authorizes the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to form or acquire subsidiaries to perform any function the corporation may delegate under law.
Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study and develop a list of standardized job profiles for unlicensed school jobs.
Requires a pharmacy to notify a person to whom a prescription drug is dispensed that the drug manufacturer may offer a patient assistance program.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study medication-induced movement disorders and submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to public health and health care no later than December 31, 2025.
Establishes the Task Force on Health Care Training Partnerships and directs the task force to report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than December 15, 2026.
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Creates a civil penalty for drug manufacturers that interfere directly or indirectly with certain entities acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
Allows a lender that, in a reverse mortgage, provides a lump sum in exchange for a claim upon the equity of a property to claim as the lender's equity, and receive as proceeds in a sale of the property, not more than the percentage of the total equity in the property to which the lump sum is equivalent on the date the lender provides the lump sum.
Carried from the House
Became law7
Directs the Legislative Fiscal Officer to analyze and prepare a report on the current state property tax system and options to modernize the state property tax system.
Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs.
Establishes the process and requirements by which the City of Monmouth may amend its urban growth boundary to add up to 75 acres and to remove up to 90 acres.
Prohibits the Oregon Health Authority under specified circumstances from requiring, as a condition of reimbursing the cost of the service, a primary care provider to order a covered care management service provided by a licensed registered nurse to a medical assistance recipient.
Requires additional reporting about prior authorization to the Department of Consumer and Business Services from insurers offering a health benefit plan and tells the department to make this data publicly available.
Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require or request disclosure of certain information regarding age and attendance or graduation dates.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to develop a senior housing development initiative.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 37
Prohibits the Secretary of State from publishing the residence address of certain individuals who are affiliated with a political committee on the electronic filing system maintained by the secretary.
Establishes the right of a resident of a residential care facility to organize and participate in resident groups, including an independent family council.
Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier.
Prohibits a person that offers or sells goods or services online from advertising, displaying or offering a price for the goods or services that does not include all fees or charges that a purchaser must pay to complete a transaction for the goods or services, other than taxes or fees that a governmental body imposes on the transaction, reasonable charges that the person actually incurs to ship the goods or provide the services or a service fee that is calculated according to distance or a purchaser's selections.
Removes the annual cap on matching funds that an individual development account holder may accrue.
Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members and publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals.
Increases the minimum legal marriageable age to 18 years of age.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority or a coordinated care organization to make a determination on a request for prior authorization for medical assistance coverage for the cost to repair complex rehabilitation technology within 72 hours after receiving the request.
Adds electric wheelchairs and complex rehabilitation technology to the type of consumer equipment for which an original equipment manufacturer must make available to an owner or independent repair provider a tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating consumer equipment.
Prohibits restaurants and retailers from providing single-use checkout bags to consumers.
Requires certain health insurance providers to ensure that coverage for a nonopioid prescription drug is available as an alternative for an opioid prescription drug and to use the same utilization review requirements and cost-sharing provisions for opioid and nonopioid drugs when they are prescribed for the same treatment.
Prohibits landlords from inquiring about or discriminating on the basis of a tenant's or applicant's immigration or citizenship status, rejecting an applicant based on the type of identifying documentation or disclosing or threatening disclosure of an applicant's or a tenant's immigration or citizenship status for improper purposes.
Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency.
Amends the definition of "residential housing" to include certain mixed income housing.
Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports.
Establishes a community-based perinatal services access program to increase access to culturally specific and culturally competent community-based services during the perinatal period.
Expands the health insurance coverage of prosthetic and orthotic devices and exempts the Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board from the expansion of covered services unless the boards provide notice to the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Modifies the enumerated authority of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to include the authority to establish continuing education requirements for state court judges.
Requires the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill located in Benton County to conduct surface emissions monitoring and report data as specified in the Act.
Extends to all public bodies the prohibition against denying mental health services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Requires public employer employment policies to provide for a pay differential for sign language skills in the same manner that pay differentials are provided for other bilingual or multilingual skills.
Modifies the requirements for investigations of a residential care facility following a complaint of a licensing violation.
Directs the Department of Human Services to report each even-numbered year to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly and the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means about compensation to individuals who maintain a foster home or to child caring agencies that authorize proctor foster homes.
Requires employers to provide to all employees, at the time of hire, a written explanation of earnings and deductions shown on itemized statements.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at the individual's place of employment.
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon.
Establishes medical assistance eligibility for individuals under age 26 who have aged out of foster care in Oregon or another state.
Allows the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters to establish by rule criteria for the issuance of a supervisory sign language interpreter license.
Authorizes local governments to enter into agreements governing local improvements proposed for unincorporated areas within an urban growth boundary.
Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 120 days of submission.
Directs the Department of Human Services to maintain an inventory of appropriate carriers for the transportation of a foster child's personal belongings.
Prohibits the retail sale of an aerosol duster that contains 1,1-Difluoroethane to an individual under 18 years of age.
Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when developing and implementing a curriculum.
Makes blood donation that is made in connection with a voluntary program that is approved or accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks or the American Red Cross a permissible use of sick time.
Requires the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct an effort to publicize and explain the obligation to accept cash as payment for goods and services to places of public accommodation and residents of this state.
Creates a limited exception to water quality permitting requirements for a treatment works located within the North Santiam Basin.
Provides that certain laws establishing crimes do not apply to the act of informing another person of the other person's civil or constitutional rights.
Vetoed · 2
Creates an exception to abuse of a child in care provisions when the suspected abuse was committed by the parent of the child in care.
Modifies the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights and the Oregon Foster Children's Sibling Bill of Rights.
Passed the Senate · 5
Exempts from state income tax up to $17,500 in federal retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States for a taxpayer who is receiving federal retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States and who hasattained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year.
Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
Prohibits the increased cost or denial of a Medicare supplement insurance policy due to a preexisting condition and establishes open enrollment standards for Medicare supplement policies.
Makes it unlawful to distribute, sell or allow to be sold an inhalant delivery system that is packaged inconsistent with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority that are tailored judiciously to the specific purpose of protecting minors from the negative health effects of unlawfully using inhalant delivery systems.
Out of committee · 19
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.
Directs the Housing and Community Services Department to distribute funds to Bridge Meadows for specified purposes.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Tsuga Community Commission for the Oregon Summer Star program.
Establishes minimum amounts of reimbursement for primary care, optometry, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
Establishes the Food for All Oregonians Program in the Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to children residing in this state who are six years of age or under and who would qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for their immigration status.
Prohibits a person from publishing or causing to be published an environmental marketing claim, net zero claim or reputational advertising that is materially false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent.
Prohibits a covered platform from accessing for an Oregon audience the online content of a digital journalism provider without an agreement.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to distribute moneys to an entity within the Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Establishes the Task Force on the Perinatal Workforce.
Modifies the child tax credit by increasing the maximum amount of the credit and increasing income limits.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to develop and implement a whole-person maternal health model for medical assistance recipients.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or offering to sell flavored inhalant delivery system products or flavored tobacco products in this state, except from premises established as a store by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and licensed by the Department of Revenue or authorized by a local government.
Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition waivers.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to support the operation of the AgriStress Helpline in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to disregard parental income when determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance if the child has a physical disability or chronic illness that requires a hospital or nursing home level of care.
Exempts a county or other entity that operates a nurse-family partnership program from paying the nonfederal share of the costs of targeted case management services provided by the program to medical assistance recipients.
Creates the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative in the Oregon Health and Science University.
Requires a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offered or provided by the hospital.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for distribution to seven entities to support the development of successful children in this state.
In committee · 8
Removes provisions prohibiting a county court or board of county commissioners from establishing a justice of the peace district that includes the county seat or city in which a circuit court regularly holds court.
Directs the Superintendent of State Police to establish a division for the purpose of identifying and implementing ways to better serve and protect drug endangered children.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for the Justice Reinvestment Equity Program.
Establishes an income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Prohibits landlords from terminating a tenancy based on certain causes unrelated to the tenant's fault during a school year if the tenant is a grade school student or teacher.
Requires persons with ownership interests in at least 200 acres of irrigated land used for agriculture to annually report information about fertilizer application to the State Department of Agriculture.
Establishes the Home and Community-Based Services Workforce Standards Board.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Legislative Assembly to support a year-round legislative assistant position for each member of the Legislative Assembly.