Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Teresa Alonso Leon
Sponsored
Became law5
Provides right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon to health care interpreters .
Requires pharmacies to notify person to whom prescription drug is dispensed of availability of prescription reader.
Increases terms of office of advocacy commission members, from three to four years.
Specifies requirements for Secretary of State to file document in accordance with laws governing business organizations.
Provides that temporary duplicate disabled person parking permit may be renewed by mail.
Out of committee4
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to require each mental health provider preparation program in this state to prepare plan to recruit and graduate diverse mental health providers.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to adopt statewide higher education equity plan and take plan into account in recommending to Governor appropriations for specified programs, facilities and investments and in advising Legislative Assembly, Governor, community colleges, public universities and other state boards and commissions on educational policies.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to partner with regional health equity coalitions in addressing health disparities for communities of color, Indian tribes, immigrants, refugees, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, low-income populations, persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning communities, with communities of color as leading priority.
Establishes Task Force on Family Engagement in Education.
In committee9
Requires pharmacists to label prescription drugs in language other than English if patient to whom prescription drug is dispensed is person of limited English proficiency.
Establishes pilot program for purpose of increasing number of public school students who are served by school social workers.
Requires public institutions of higher education to bypass developmental educational requirements and placement tests for each student who receives grade on approved high school equivalency test indicating student is fully qualified to bypass requirements and tests.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to reengaging into school persons who dropped out of public secondary schools.
Allows student enrolled in program provided by school district or education service district to earn General Educational Development (GED) certificate to participate in interscholastic activities.
Establishes Legislative Assembly Paid Internships Program to provide stipends to interns performing services in offices of members of Legislative Assembly.
Removes requirement that physician assistant practice under supervision of supervising physician.
Prohibits title loan lender and payday loan lender from making new title loan or payday loan within seven days of date on which any title loan or payday loan expires, including title loans or payday loans from other title loan lenders or payday loan lenders.
Allows any person to bring action to enjoin law enforcement agency from using agency resources to enforce immigration laws.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 31
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide partially or fully compensated time away from work to covered individual who meets certain criteria while covered individual is on family leave, medical leave or safe leave.
Requires specified professional regulatory boards to require persons authorized to practice professions regulated by board to complete cultural competency continuing education.
Provides that person subject to certain court protective orders is prohibited from possessing firearms if person had opportunity to be heard on order and did not request hearing, failed to appear at hearing or withdrew request before hearing occurred.
Eliminates requirement that person provide proof of legal presence before Department of Transportation issues noncommercial driver license, noncommercial driver permit or identification card.
Requires public employer to grant reasonable paid time to public employee who is designated representative to engage in certain activities.
Authorizes dentists to prescribe and administer vaccines.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Requires Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees.
Establishes Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board in Oregon Health Authority.
Provides that current or former foster child under 25 years of age is eligible for tuition waiver at institution of higher education if current or former foster child is enrolled in courses totaling one or more credit hours for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Clarifies that sexual orientation is not considered physical or mental impairment and that individual does not have disability solely by reason of individual's sexual orientation.
Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disclose certain patient information to dental directors for specified purposes.
Directs Department of State Police to study how to increase and improve criminal justice resources relating to missing and murdered Native American women in Oregon and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020.
Requires manufacturer of prescription drugs to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services specified increase in price of certain prescription drugs at least 60 days before date of increase.
Removes prohibition on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to nonprofessional employees of educational institution providing facilities or janitorial services for weeks of unemployment commencing during period between two successive academic years or terms.
Establishes statutory authority for Oregon Psychiatric Access Line program operated by Oregon Health and Science University and financed by Legislative Assembly through appropriations.
Requires Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee to publish on website of Oregon Health Authority within seven days recommendations concerning Practitioner-Managed Prescription Drug Plan.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens.
Modifies requirements for school to qualify as small high school for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility.
Prohibits court from inquiring into defendant's immigration status or requiring defendant to disclose defendant's immigration status at time of plea or at any other time during criminal proceeding.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Provides that individual may not be disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits for voluntarily leaving work, failing to apply for available suitable work or failing to accept suitable work, if individual or member of individual's immediate family was victim of conduct that, in determination of Director of Employment Department, more likely than not constitutes crime of intimidation, individual believes that individual or immediate family member could become victim of such conduct or individual seeks to protect individual or immediate family member from such conduct that individual reasonably believes will occur as a result of individual's continued employment or acceptance of work.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate community needs for school-based health services.
Provides that agreement for conditional discharge for controlled substance offenses may not contain requirement that defendant enter plea of guilty or no contest.
Allows person with hardship driver permit to provide necessary services to person or member of person's family.
Creates civil cause of action against person who knowingly summons police officer with intent to cause specified harm.
Directs each covered manufacturer of covered drugs that are sold within this state to develop and implement drug take-back program for purpose of collecting from individuals and nonbusiness entities covered drugs for disposal.
Prohibits school district, community college district and certain education service district elections from being conducted in manner that impairs ability of members of protected class to have equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice as result of dilution or abridgment of rights of electors who are members of protected class.
Passed the House · 5
Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death.
Requires division of Department of Human Services that administers Oregon Project Independence, in collaboration with area agencies, to study statewide expansion of Oregon Project Independence and resource needs of division if Oregon Project Independence is expanded statewide.
Provides that diagnostic services are compensable under workers' compensation law after industrial accident or occupational disease has been determined to be compensable and if diagnostic services are reasonable and necessary to identify nature or extent of medical condition that may be related to industrial accident or occupational disease.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients and residents plant-based meals when necessary to accommodate medical, religious, cultural or ethnic needs, preferences or requests.
Out of committee · 26
Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for Medicaid Buy-In program or public option for Oregon residents who do not have access to health care.
Provides funding for grant program under which Department of Education awards grants to school districts for percentage of certain student transportation costs for which school district does not receive any amount in distributions from State School Fund or any amount related to transit activities.
Establishes Statewide School Safety and Prevention System.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to provide matching grants to registered sobering facilities.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students in early childhood through post-secondary education who are Latino or Hispanic and have experienced disproportionate educational results.
Requires school districts to provide coordinated comprehensive school counseling program.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock or in locked container except in specified circumstances.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to contract with at least four Recovery Community Organizations, in accordance with criteria adopted by Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, to operate four recovery community centers in four different counties.
Directs administrator of Oregon Prescription Drug Program to cooperate with State of California in bulk purchase of prescription drugs.
Authorizes administrator of Oregon Prescription Drug Program to cooperate with Canadian provinces or territories in bulk purchase of prescription drugs.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to design program to import wholesale prescription drugs from Canada.
Directs Department of Education to distribute grants for purpose of developing and diversifying education workforce for prekindergarten through grade 12.
Establishes prohibitions for registered pharmacy benefit managers.
Establishes Early Childhood Equity Fund.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for development of gatekeeper programs to serve seniors and people with disabilities in local communities statewide.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to enable school districts to provide courses in computer science as part of career and technical education program.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission and Department of Veterans' Affairs to adopt by rule additional minimum standards regarding source of tuition revenue for licensing of career schools and schools authorized to confer degrees.
Requires public schools to make available, at no cost, menstrual products in at least 50 percent of bathrooms at schools with students in any grade from grade 7 through 12.
Increases percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide employee who is eligible for coverage with portion of wages while employee is on family and medical leave or military family leave.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to review current scientific data regarding safety of pesticide products containing chlorpyrifos.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence, unless taxpayer sells residence or actively markets residence for sale.
Allows dependent care income tax credit to be claimed for expenses to allow taxpayer or spouse to attend school as enrolled degree-seeking student.
Appropriates moneys to fund engineering and design work necessary for adding bicycle and pedestrian lane to Bridge of the Gods.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon career and technical student organizations in support of organizations.
In committee · 43
Allows individuals who do not qualify for medical assistance or premium tax credits under Affordable Care Act to enroll in coordinated care organizations by paying premiums that cover actuarial value of health services.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring, and school districts from administering, certain assessments to students enrolled or preparing to enroll in prekindergarten through grade two.
Directs Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to appoint long term care wage board to examine factors that may present challenges to recruiting and retaining long term care employees.
Requires health benefit plan, health care service contract and medical assistance coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Directs Department of Human Services to assign exactly one universal provider number to persons listed on registry of persons who provide long term care.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish or contract for establishment of statewide mental health crisis support access line to facilitate specified services for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Establishes Emergency Department Boarding Pilot Project in Oregon Health Authority.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts for various purposes.
Establishes Adult Suicide Intervention and Prevention Coordinator within Oregon Health Authority.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of digital electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any part, tool, service manual or other device, implement or information that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized repair provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing digital electronic equipment that original equipment manufacturer makes or supplies.
Establishes right of consumer to be educated about ways to reduce cost of prescription drugs.
Requires health benefit plan to reimburse cost of covered telemedicine health service provided by health professional licensed or certified in this state if same health service is provided in person.
Requires pharmacist to substitute prescribed brand name drug with generic name drug product.
Requires pharmacy or pharmacist to substitute prescribed biological product with interchangeable biological product.
Requires carrier to offer, in at least 25 percent of carrier's health benefit plans at each coverage level, flat dollar copayments that meet specified criteria for prescription drug coverage.
Requires certain insurers to reimburse cost of specified services provided by local mental health authorities.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Expands health benefit plan coverage of childbirth and pregnancy-related health care expenses.
Requires vision examination as part of evaluation before initially receiving special education.
Requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to use smoke evacuation system during surgical procedures likely to generate surgical smoke.
Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students.
Allows subtraction from federal taxable income for purchase of qualifying gun safe.
Requires Department of Human Services to complete investigations regarding applications for certificates to operate foster homes for care of children under 21 years of age no later than 120 days after department receives application.
Requires manufacturer to disclose in any advertisement for prescription drug wholesale price in Oregon of prescription drug.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total cost of patient assistance programs and information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations.
Requires voter registration cards and electronic voter registration system to include option for person to identify race, ethnicity and preferred language of person.
Increases total amount allowed in tax year to all taxpayers as tax credits for donations to fiduciary organizations for distribution to individual development accounts.
Requires Department of Human Services to assess and quantify workload impacts of specified policy changes.
Requires voter registration cards and electronic voter registration system to include option for person to identify race, ethnicity and preferred language of person.
Requires each county to identify 10 most common languages spoken by residents of county.
Establishes Dreamers Access Program to award student loans to eligible students with demonstrated financial need.
Requires insurance coverage of pelvic examinations and Pap smear examinations to include reimbursement for medical devices and items that clinician determines best suit needs of patient.
Establishes Task Force on Health Care Access to study and report on how to establish primary care trust model.
Explicitly authorizes political contributions received by candidate, principal campaign committee of candidate or principal campaign committee of holder of public office to be used to defray caregiving expenses for relative of candidate or office holder if expenses would not exist without campaign activity or holding of public office.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to request employee to enter agreement that would prevent employee from disclosing or discussing conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault.
Prohibits police officer from conducting or participating in activities intended to determine whether person has paid certain user charges, fees or tolls imposed by mass transit district.
Allows nonprofit corporation that provides reduced-cost dental services to underserved populations, including individuals 55 years of age or older or individuals who require accessible facilities, to own, operate, conduct or maintain dental practice.
Requires local public health authorities and coordinated care organizations to provide funding to support school-based programs providing dental disease prevention services.
Removes limit on number of chemicals Oregon Health Authority may include on list of high priority chemicals of concern in children's products.
Requires that lactation consultant complete continuing education related to cultural competency approved by Oregon Health Authority or International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners.
Requires coordinated care organization to make available to members of coordinated care organization advocates for victims of domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking.