Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Tim Knopp
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules requiring opioid treatment center, as condition for approval to operate in this state, to accept Medicare payments as reimbursement for cost of services provided by center.
Prohibits grandfathered health plan from imposing preexisting condition exclusion.
Repeals sunset on and obsolete reporting requirement for Central Oregon Health Council.
Passed the Senate3
Modifies criteria for erecting roadside memorial signs for deceased veterans who were formerly prisoners of war or unaccounted for.
Limits local government regulations on certain nonresidential alarm systems and battery-charged fences.
Provides that portion of U.S. Highway 30 in Oregon shall also be known as Oregon Veterans Memorial Highway.
Out of committee2
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.
Requires individual and group health insurance policies to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
In committee29
Requires insurer offering health plan, or person acting on behalf of insurer, to reduce enrollee cost sharing for prescription drugs by 85 percent of rebates received by insurer.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Requires coordinated care organizations to report specified information to Oregon Health Authority regarding requests for prior authorization.
Imposes personal income tax at flat rate if taxpayer has adjusted gross income below threshold amount.
Increases formula weight for students in poverty families, in foster homes and in certain state-recognized facilities for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Appropriates to Department of Education for State School Fund amount determined by Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to ensure that state's system of kindergarten through grade 12 public education meets quality goals.
Changes calculation of final average salary for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System to use five years of salary instead of three years, for salary paid on and after January 1, 2022.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
Prohibits permanent rule from being in effect for longer than six years.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that expand workforce, with positions that pay above average wage, by 10 percent or more in tax year.
Prohibits public body from using cell-site simulator device to obtain or use personal electronic data or personal electronic metadata unless public body obtains consent or pursuant to search warrant or established warrant exception.
Establishes that decisions related to immunizations are personal health care decisions and that immunizations may not be mandated as condition of employment for registered nurses or other medical staff unless required by federal law.
Modifies bias crime in the second degree and bias crime in the first degree.
Requires State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Requires licensed health care provider to provide vaccine information packet to patient to whom licensed health care provider administers vaccine.
Creates crime of threatening to commit a terroristic act.
Provides that, for estate of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2021, Oregon estate tax is not due unless value of Oregon taxable estate equals or exceeds $11.7 million.
Modifies required coverage of prescription drugs in medical assistance program.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Requires ballots for general and primary elections that are received after election to be counted if postmarked no later than Saturday before date of election and received no later than seven calendar days after election.
Allows counties to authorize construction of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
Prescribes additional requirements for health benefit plan coverage of telemedical health services.
Allows certain local governments to include within urban growth boundary lands for needed housing.
Prohibits assessment of civil penalty or fine for violation of state occupational or health measure if no disease outbreak of COVID-19 occurred as result of violation.
Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, frozen assessed value for homestead of individual at least 68 years of age, or person with disability, if homestead and individual would be eligible for homestead property tax deferral program but for fact that homestead is pledged as security for reverse mortgage.
Provides that crime of private indecency includes circumstances in which defendant's conduct occurs in immediate presence of other person.
Makes discrimination against individual based on vaccination history, individual's refusal to obtain vaccination or individual's failure to provide proof of immunity to communicable disease unlawful employment practice.
Prohibits lobbyist from serving as chairperson of interim committee, legislative work group or legislative task force.
Allows production of food in planned community by lot owners and their tenants. .
Carried from the House
Became law1
Requires, if certain conditions are met, Department of Land Conservation and Development to approve City of Bend's expansion of urban growth boundary to include specified lands and allows department to approve other land use regulations for those lands.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Establishes rate of compensation to be paid by Oregon Liquor Control Commission to distillery retail outlet agent for distilled liquor retail sales by agent.
Authorizes county to allow owner of lot or parcel within rural residential zone to construct one accessory dwelling unit on lot or parcel, subject to certain restrictions.
Allows land division to separate dwelling units for new middle housing allowed in cities.
Requires certain persons that service student loans in this state to obtain or renew license.
Requires employee of certain licensed premises who is permittee to make report if permittee has reasonable belief that sex trafficking is occurring at premises or that minor is employed or contracted as performer at premises in manner violating Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules.
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.
Passed the Senate · 2
Modifies child abuse reporting requirements to add hotelkeepers and innkeepers as mandatory reporters of child abuse.
Requires insurer and health care service contractor to count payments made on behalf of enrollee for costs of care toward enrollee's out-of-pocket maximum or cost-sharing.
Out of committee · 2
Establishes Task Force on Vehicle Charging Stations.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
In committee · 10
Directs Department of Education to establish voucher program for students from low-performing schools.
Increases 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.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs, feminine hygiene products, diapers and baby formula from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Specifies that electricity generated by hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with renewable portfolio standard.
Removes requirement that only elector who has personally printed copy, or requested that separate person print copy, of electronic signature sheet for petition or prospective petition may sign signature sheet.
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Requires State Forestry Department to conduct program of loan guarantees to assist persons with financing cost of replacing logging equipment lost in wildfire.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Modifies appointing authority for State Forester.
Prohibits public bodies and private entities from requiring person to receive COVID-19 vaccination or to possess COVID-19 immunity passport, immunity pass or other evidence certifying COVID-19 vaccination or immunity status.