Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Christine Goodwin
Sponsored
Became law1
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Out of committee2
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Oregon Medical Coordination Center.
In committee13
Permits minors 16 and 17 years of age to operate power-driven machinery in certain circumstances.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
Modifies requirements for coordinated care organization contracts.
Excludes certain costs from consideration as total health expenditures for purposes of Health Care Cost Growth Target 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.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring long term care facilities and skilled nursing facilities to participate in Oregon Capacity System.
Repeals provisions governing nurse staffing at hospitals.
Repeals certain requirements with respect to hospital nurse staffing committees and plans.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study disposal of electric vehicle batteries.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study impacts of waste from solar or wind renewable energy facilities.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Authorizes cities and counties within Rural Oregon Continuum of Care to establish campgrounds for homeless individuals that are protected against civil liability provided campgrounds have certain characteristics and provide certain services.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Removes one member who has degree of Doctor of Medicine and adds one member who is physician assistant to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Directs Oregon State Board of Nursing to issue license to practice as certified registered nurse anesthetist to qualified applicant.
Passed the House · 1
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Out of committee · 14
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Increases amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct wage study and Department of Human Services to conduct workforce study to determine eligibility and enrollment case manager staffing levels needed to complete eligibility determinations within 45 days for individuals seeking enrollment in programs for all-inclusive care for elderly.
Adds nursing assistant or nurse to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Adds licensed mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians and pharmacists and certified medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to types of providers eligible for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on multiplier of not more than seven times fair market value of livestock or working dogs and recommendation of county advisory committee.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to annually report specified information to Department of Consumer and Business Services, including costs and rebates of prescription drugs for enrollees.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education to fund specified programs provided by Willamette Career Academy.
Requires Southern Oregon University, subject to appropriation of sufficient moneys, to address state's behavioral and mental health needs by materially increasing number of mental health practitioners who graduate in southern Oregon and teaching behavioral and mental health competencies through alternative academic pathways.
In committee · 47
Delays penalties under Health Care Cost Growth Target program until 2026.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Prohibits athletic organizations from designating, classifying, naming or categorizing as specific for females certain athletic activities for which participation is permitted by persons whose biological sex is male.
Requires Public Utility Commission to investigate status of renewable projects in Oregon, including project failures.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prohibits insurer from canceling or raising premiums on policies of fire insurance by more than three percent if insured's property is located within wildland-urban interface or insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
Prohibits district school boards from adopting specified procedures relating to parental notification.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Appropriates moneys out of General Fund to State Fire Marshal for distribution to Illinois Valley Fire District for purposes related to district's water supply and treatment of sewage.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
Defines "dangerous to self or others" for purpose of taking person with mental illness into custody.
Authorizes civil commitment of person with substance use disorder who meets criteria for civil commitment of person with mental disorder.
Requires person that receives state financial incentive for development of renewable energy generation facility to maintain nameplate capacity of facility for period of at least 25 years.
Requires district school board or higher education governing board that adopts policy limiting possession of firearms by concealed handgun licensees on school grounds to install metal detectors at entrances to buildings subject to policy.
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to contract with third party to examine restructuring of authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish program to provide financial incentives to hospitals for offering clinical training opportunities for nursing students.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Josephine County for emergency infrastructure improvements to Josephine County fairgrounds.
Provides that Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services may apply requirement to include provisions for electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles only to commercial buildings under private ownership.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules adopted as result of state of emergency related to COVID-19.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager, after adjudication of and payment on claim for reimbursement of prescription drug, from recouping reimbursement paid except as part of routine audit, or from imposing retroactive fee on basis that was not determined when claim was adjudicated.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Grants Pass to build water plant.
Prohibits medical health care professional from performing or providing sex alteration procedure on minor.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of Legislative Assembly.
Requires person to review medical history and obtain written consent of parent or guardian before administering vaccine or immune product to child under 18 years of age.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Directs district school boards to adopt policy for selecting and reviewing books and materials for school libraries.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Directs Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
Amends income eligibility requirements for various housing programs and land use regulations.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study salmon and trout enhancement program.
Allows owner of property outside urban growth boundary to site additional dwelling on property for occupancy by relative of owner.
Exempts rehabilitation facilities from requirement to obtain certificate of need.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.