Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Elizabeth Steiner
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires coordinated care organizations to include in community health improvement plan strategy for use of school-based health centers .
Creates primary care provider loan repayment program and establishes Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment Fund.
Creates offense of smoking in motor vehicle.
Establishes Task Force on the Delivery of Human Services.
Allows Secretary of State, State Treasurer, judicial department and legislative department to obtain copyrights and patents on data processing materials and to sell, lease or otherwise make available the materials to local, state and federal governmental bodies.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt uniform documentation requirements for credentialing providers of telemedicine services.
Imposes on nonschool athletic teams requirements for recognizing and responding to possible concussions.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to prepare human papillomavirus and comprehensive related cancer control plan as addendum to Oregon Comprehensive Cancer Plan.
Out of committee1
Permits employee of contracting agency that conducts cost analysis or determines feasibility of procurement, or exclusive representative of employee's bargaining unit, to seek judicial review of cost analysis or determination.
In committee12
Requires insurer to reimburse out-of-network providers of emergency services at prescribed rates.
Requires manufacturer of product that is alternative to product containing hazardous substance banned in this state to submit, before introducing alternative product into state commerce, assessment of alternative to hazardous substance to Oregon Health Authority.
Establishes Task Force on Oregon's Primary Care Workforce.
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Requires Construction Contractors Board to adopt rules establishing certification program for construction contractors qualified to conduct energy audits of residential buildings, assign energy performance scores, identify potential improvements in energy conservation and energy efficiency for audited buildings and provide cost estimates for potential improvements.
Raises threshold for requiring cost analysis for procurement from $250,000 to $2 million.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt rules to establish Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights.
Permits order to set aside conviction of certain sex crimes under certain circumstances.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt rules regarding child abuse investigations, determinations, notice and requests for review of determinations.
Requires specified health care professional training programs to include in required curricula training on standardized clinical breast examinations.
Establishes requirements for school districts related to recognizing and responding to impending cardiac arrest.
Clarifies which activities of groups forming coordinated care organizations are exempt from state and federal antitrust laws under state action doctrine.
Carried from the House
Became law8
Creates Task Force on Future of Public Health Services to study regionalization and consolidation of public health services and future of public health services in Oregon in order to make recommendations for legislation.
Prohibits cost-sharing for health services, medications and supplies medically necessary for management of diabetes during pregnancy through six weeks postpartum.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt by rule procedures and criteria for certification, suspension and decertification of school-based health centers.
Changes circumstances under which licensed physical therapist must refer person to medical doctor, osteopathic physician, chiropractic physician, podiatric physician and surgeon, naturopathic physician, dentist, physician assistant or nurse practitioner.
Requires certain employers to post in premises where employees are employed summary of statutes and rules related to employment rights of victims of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault or stalking.
Requires State of Oregon to grant paid leave to eligible employees who are victims of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault or stalking.
Authorizes court to set aside conviction for certain sex crimes under certain circumstances.
Increases number of locations for which distillery licensee may permit tastings of distillery products.
Passed the House1
Requires Oregon Health Authority to maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern for children's health used in children's products.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Increases punishment for animal neglect in first degree to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for repeat animal neglect offenders, neglect that occurs in presence of minor child or animal neglect offenses involving 10 or more animals.
Establishes Accelerated Learning Committee.
Prohibits certain educational institutions from requiring or compelling student or prospective student to provide institution with access to personal social media account through user name and password, password or other means of authentication.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe criteria for training on treatment of opiate overdose and specifies requirements for training.
If mammogram shows dense breast tissue, requires facility that performed mammogram to notify patient of results and possible increased risk of breast cancer and to advise patient to contact patient's health care provider regarding appropriateness of supplemental testing.
Authorizes health care facility, health care provider and patient to file notice of adverse health care incident with Oregon Patient Safety Commission.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Prohibits public agency or public official from allowing debt collection entity to use seal or letterhead of public agency or public official.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt dispute resolution process to resolve disputes involving termination, extension or renewal of contract between health care entity and coordinated care organization.
Directs Beaverton School District and Hillsboro School District to mediate boundary disputes.
Bans use of motors on Waldo Lake.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish program for purpose of providing to credentialing organizations access to information that is necessary to credential or recredential health care practitioners.
Makes laws regulating restaurants and bed and breakfast facilities applicable to public bodies and to public corporations exempted from definition of public body.
Enhances penalties for crime of trafficking in persons if victim was under 15 years of age or force was used and trafficking was for purpose of commercial sex acts.
Extends exclusive remedy protections of workers' compensation statutes to partners, limited liability company members, general partners, limited liability partners and limited partners.
Directs Department of Education to consult with specified entities when developing academic content standards for Oregon Studies and preparing materials to support teacher training and classroom instruction in Oregon Studies.
Requires council on civil rights appointed by Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to study wage equality in Oregon and report findings to Legislative Assembly.
Clarifies that only certain districts claiming exception from requirement to offer benefits provided and administered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board must undergo actuarial analysis by board to maintain exception.
Authorizes individual licensed to practice medicine or podiatry in another state or country to provide health care services for out-of-state athletic team under certain circumstances.
Modifies exemption to provisions regulating cosmetology disciplines.
Creates Work Group on Corrections Health Care Costs.
Passed the Senate · 1
Requires Oregon Health Authority to request specified information from potential contractors and, if certain conditions are met, to request proposals to establish and operate systems and technologies designed to detect and prevent improper payments in state medical assistance program.
Out of committee · 4
Modifies crime applicable to possession of firearm, or instrument used as dangerous weapon, while in or on school grounds.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide medical assistance to specified number of women for breast and cervical cancer screenings under Oregon Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.
Establishes Agricultural Experiment Station Fermentation Sciences and Value Added Program at Oregon State University.
Allows nonresident veterans discharged under honorable conditions to pay tuition and fees at Oregon resident rates.
In committee · 13
Removes prohibition against local government enactment of taxes on alcoholic beverages.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Authorizes Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules prohibiting or limiting coverage by health benefit plans of items, services or medical technologies pursuant to guidance by Health Evidence Review Commission.
Clarifies that Oregon Department of Administrative Services must transfer moneys from General Fund to Shared Services Fund as part of strategic investment program.
Creates crime of unlawfully transferring large capacity magazine.
Creates subtraction from taxable income for contribution of crop to charitable organization.
Increases percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax in each of four consecutive tax years.
Specifies minimum enrollment requirements for public charter school that offers online courses.
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Enacts uniform sales and use tax administration provisions.
Alters method by which moneys are distributed to school districts for purpose of paying for costs of education of students in eligible day treatment programs and eligible residential treatment programs.
Requires covered employer to implement paid sick leave for eligible employees.