Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, House.
Lisa Reynolds
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator.
In committee1
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Oregon Health Authority to study public health system response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Prohibits employers from permitting or requiring agricultural workers to work in excess of maximum allowable hours unless workers are compensated for overtime hours worked.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, guided by advisory committee to be convened by authority, to provide grants to operate two culturally and linguistically specific mobile health units, as pilot program, to improve health outcomes of Oregonians impacted by racism.
Modifies composition and duties of Oregon Broadband Advisory Council.
Establishes Veterans Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide oral health care to low-income veterans who reside in Oregon beginning in 2023.
Allows person employed by health care facility to practice surgical technology if person has completed and is certified by specified apprenticeship program.
Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt by rule grant program to provide funding to culturally specific and responsive organizations, tribal governments and under-resourced rural community service organizations to conduct outreach regarding federal earned income tax credits and other tax benefits and to provide tax navigation and preparation services to low-income Oregonians.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for certain coordinated homeless response systems.
Requires insurer and health care service contractor to cover labor and delivery services provided at out-of-network health care facility, and medical transport of individual presenting with signs of labor from in-network facility to out-of-network facility, if services provided at out-of-network facility due solely to diversion of patient from in-network health care facility for reasons related to state or federal declaration of public health emergency.
Requires Department of Transportation to establish program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that assesses greenhouse gas emissions attributable to certain covered materials department uses in construction and maintenance activities for state's transportation system, conducts life cycle assessments for selected set of construction and maintenance activities and devises strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Requires Health Information Technology Oversight Council to convene one or more groups of stakeholders and experts to explore options to accelerate, support and improve secure, statewide community information exchanges.
Passed the House · 2
Increases distance from certain parts of public places and places of employment within which person may not smoke, aerosolize or vaporize inhalant from 10 feet to 25 feet.
Directs State Treasurer to publish annually complete list of publicly traded assets held in investment funds.
Out of committee · 8
Modifies provisions relating to peremptory challenges to jurors.
Requires pharmacist who dispenses opioid prescription to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and information about naloxone under specified circumstances.
Requires individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors and multiple employer welfare arrangements to provide reimbursement for at least three primary care visits annually in addition to one annual preventive primary care visit covered without cost-sharing.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop plan, with advice from work group, to implement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Restaurant Meals Program in Oregon and report plan to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than January 31, 2023.
Establishes Racial Equity and Justice Youth Collaborative.
Establishes position of Tribal Relations Liaison within Department of State Police.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to distribute funds to community-based organizations to provide financial assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status recipients for specified purposes.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Transportation for wildlife corridor projects.
In committee · 3
Requires Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study development and administration of program to make payments to essential workers for services performed during COVID-19 pandemic and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to labor on or before September 15, 2023.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to Oregon cultural organizations in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organizations' earned revenue.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.