Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, House.
Maxine Dexter
Sponsored
Became law1
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires owners or operators of bulk oils and liquid fuels terminals located in Columbia, Multnomah or Lane County to conduct and submit to Department of Environmental Quality seismic vulnerability assessments.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
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.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct review of Oregon Route 6 and present report to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2023.
Amends provisions of workers' compensation law related to beneficiaries.
Requires, on or after January 1, 2023, officials of public bodies to grant news media representatives access to scenes of wildfires or natural disasters on public lands that are otherwise closed to public.
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.
Authorizes health care practitioner authorized in another state or United States territory to practice in this state without compensation for specified number of days without obtaining licensure in this state.
Expands designated state agencies that must work with Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission and requires agencies to meet with commission quarterly to review and report on each agency's progress and to report process and outcome measures established under commission's comprehensive addiction, prevention, treatment and recovery plan.
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.
Requires members of district school board for common school district or union high school district to file verified statement of economic interest with Oregon Government Ethics Commission.
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 Department of Education to conduct survey related to academic assessments administered to students by school districts and to develop recommendations and best practices related to assessments.
Requires electronic voter registration system to allow qualified individual to register to vote if individual has Social Security number.
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.
Amends provisions of workers' compensation law related to authorization of temporary disability, claim closure and overpayments of compensation.
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.
Passed the House · 4
Directs county governing body of each county to designate person to ensure interment of unclaimed human remains of veteran or spouse, dependent or survivor of veteran.
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.
Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.
Out of committee · 9
Requires pharmacist who dispenses opioid prescription to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and information about naloxone under specified circumstances.
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.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes Racial Equity and Justice Youth Collaborative.
Establishes position of Tribal Relations Liaison within Department of State Police.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Educator Advancement Council to provide professional learning opportunities related to ethnic studies standards adopted by department.
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.
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator.
In committee · 6
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to calculate Genuine Progress Indicator to measure economic and social welfare.
Prohibits manufacturer or supplier from manufacturing, selling, offering to sell or distributing cosmetic or ingredient developed through use of animal test.
Expands duties of Oregon Government Ethics Commission to conduct investigations, make findings and impose penalties for violations of public meetings law.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.