Bills in the 2018 Regular Session, House.
Sheri Schouten
Sponsored
Became law1
Modifies requirements for health benefit plan coverage of hearing loss treatments.
In committee1
Establishes penalty to be imposed by Department of Consumer and Business Services on employers that offer health insurance coverage to employees but that have employees working at least 30 hours per week who receive health care coverage through medical assistance program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Makes calculation of projected future earning potential of plaintiff that takes into account race or ethnicity of plaintiff inadmissible in civil action.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide grants to qualified members of Oregon National Guard to attend community colleges or public universities.
Provides proceedings to escheat to State of Oregon matured United States savings bonds presumed abandoned and in custody of state.
Requires Department of Human Services to disregard as resources moneys held in specified pension and retirement accounts in determining eligibility for temporary assistance for needy families.
Requires health benefit plan that reimburses cost of osteopathic manipulative treatment by osteopathic physician to reimburse cost of evaluation that resulted in treatment.
Establishes Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee to conduct studies and reviews of incidence of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
Requires Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly, no later than December 31, 2018, its recommendations for scope and framework for its comprehensive addiction, prevention, treatment and recovery plan.
Prohibits prosecuting attorney from conditioning plea offer on requirement that defendant or defense attorney stipulate to unconstitutionality of existing law.
Prohibits public bodies from contracting with broadband Internet access service providers that engage in certain network management activities based on paid prioritization, content blocking or other discrimination.
Passed the House · 1
Includes class size as mandatory subject of school district collective bargaining.
Out of committee · 4
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule program that places cap on greenhouse gas emissions and that provides market-based mechanism for covered entities to demonstrate compliance.
Requires certain public improvement contracts to meet certain requirements related to use of diesel engines in course of performing public improvement contract.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Education.
Establishes product stewardship program for household hazardous waste.
In committee · 5
Provides that "eligible location," for purposes of certain property tax benefits, includes location not formerly used for industrial purposes.
Requires hospitals, no later than January 1, 2019, to have charity care policy written in plain language and provided upon admission and with every billing or notice of amount owed to hospital by patient.
Establishes Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as independent public corporation and prescribes corporation's purposes and powers.
Limits pharmacy benefit managers' ability to require or encourage enrollees to fill or refill prescription drugs at mail order pharmacy.
Prohibits carriers offering health benefit plans from making specified changes to prescription drug coverage during plan year.