Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Sheri Schouten
Sponsored
Became law5
Authorizes dentists to prescribe and administer vaccines.
Limits amount of overtime nursing staff who work in correctional facility may be required to work.
Designates October 9 of each year as PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day.
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.
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.
Passed the House1
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene container in selling, offering for sale, serving or dispensing prepared food to public.
Out of committee1
Directs Youth Development Division to administer pilot program to coordinate delivery of youth development services through Youth Development Hubs.
In committee13
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.
Prohibits imposition of step therapy protocol for prescription drug prescribed to treat stage four advanced metastatic cancer if drug meets specified criteria.
Lowers age under which person is required to wear protective headgear while operating motor assisted scooter.
Modifies description of marriage.
Requires incarceration facilities to provide tampons, sanitary napkins and undergarments to female persons in custody at no charge.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Beaverton Hoop YMCA for purpose of purchasing property and opening and operating child development center.
Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board from contracting with mental health providers, directly or through third party administrator, for payment or reimbursement of claims for mental health care provided to public employees unless mental health provider accepts patients who receive medical assistance.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students.
Modifies requirements for carrying dog on external part of vehicle.
Creates offense of misrepresenting dog as service dog.
Establishes insurance coverage requirements for participating drivers that offer or provide prearranged rides to riders by means of digital networks.
Requires transportation network company or other employer to conduct or have other person conduct criminal records check to determine whether individual that transportation network company or other employer intends to engage as participating driver has committed certain criminal violations.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Oregon Health Authority to design, implement and maintain voluntary statewide program to provide nurse home visiting services to families with infants up to six months of age.
Passed the Senate1
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
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.
Extends authorized uses of moneys received by state pursuant to Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Agreement and deposited in Clean Diesel Engine Fund.
Requires specified professional regulatory boards to require persons authorized to practice professions regulated by board to complete cultural competency continuing education.
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.
Modifies list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse to include animal control officers.
Provides right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon to health care interpreters .
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to , because of known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition of job applicant or employee, take certain actions related to reasonable accommodations to known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition.
Requires Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees.
Prohibits retail establishments from providing single-use checkout bags to customers, except in certain cases.
Requires correctional facilities to provide tampons, sanitary pads, postpartum pads and panty liners to certain incarcerated persons at no cost.
Establishes Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board in Oregon Health Authority.
Conforms Oregon law related to expression of milk in workplace to federal law.
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.
Limits guardian's authority to limit protected person's preferred associations with third parties.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disclose certain patient information to dental directors for specified purposes.
Requires State Department of Energy to adopt by rule program for providing rebates for purchase, construction or installation of residential and certain nonresidential solar electric systems and paired solar and storage systems.
Prohibits use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas exploration and production.
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.
Clarifies that bicycle lane exists in intersection if bicycle lane is marked on opposite sides of intersection in same direction of travel.
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.
Establishes Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Expands list of hospitals whose medical staff may qualify for specified income tax credit.
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.
Requires pharmacies to notify person to whom prescription drug is dispensed of availability of prescription reader.
Increases maximum penalty for certain wildlife law offenses committed without culpable mental state to $2,000 fine.
Requires nonprofit hospitals and their nonprofit affiliated clinics to establish financial assistance policies meeting specified criteria, including reducing charges to low-income patients.
Requires counties with population of 650,000 or more to use proceeds from sale of foreclosed property to reimburse municipal liens against property for utilities improvements or seismic rehabilitation.
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.
Passed the House · 3
Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death.
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Removes ability of parent to decline required immunizations against restrictable diseases on behalf of child for reason other than child's indicated medical diagnosis.
Out of committee · 18
Establishes Local Government Technical Assistance Program within Housing and Community Services Department.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance acquisition and restoration of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock or in locked container except in specified circumstances.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Title IX enforcement and compliance, sexual harassment prevention and gender discrimination prevention.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Increases threshold under which school district may receive additional State School Fund moneys for student eligible for special education.
Eliminates requirement for ambulatory surgical centers and extended stay centers to file ambulatory surgery discharge abstract records with Oregon Health Authority.
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.
Requires transportation network company that operates in this state to obtain license from Department of Transportation.
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.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees.
Establishes Home Weatherization, Retrofit and Affordability Program for Housing and Community Services Department to provide incentive payments to construction contractors undertaking energy improvement projects on residential structures.
Requires Department of Human Services to request in agency request budget and Governor to include in Governor's budget specified amount of General Fund moneys for distribution to centers for independent living.
Imposes assessment on large employers with employees who receive or who have minor children who receive certain types of public assistance in this state, in amount equal to public assistance paid.
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.
Requires that, to extent provided by Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, if wine labeled with American viticultural area in Oregon is labeled with single grape variety as type designation, wine must meet specified content requirements.
In committee · 16
Prohibits restaurant from providing single-use plastic straw to consumer unless consumer requests straw.
Lists specified types of expenditures that are definitively considered to be made in coordination with candidates for purposes of determining whether expenditure is considered independent expenditure.
Requires parent who declines immunization for child to submit to administrator document including health care practitioner signature verifying practitioner reviewed immunization information with parent and certificate verifying parent completed vaccine educational module as condition of child's attendance at school or other children's facility.
Prohibits retail pet store from selling or offering to sell dog, cat or rabbit acquired from source other than animal shelter or rescue organization.
Exempts from taxation amounts received from sale of real property to housing authority or community development corporation.
Requires certain insurers to reimburse cost of specified services provided by local mental health authorities.
Expands health benefit plan coverage of childbirth and pregnancy-related health care expenses.
Directs Director of Transportation to require each region described in Act to conduct jurisdictional transfer evaluation and present report on evaluations to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2020.
Allows subtraction from federal taxable income for purchase of qualifying gun safe.
Requires manufacturer to disclose in any advertisement for prescription drug wholesale price in Oregon of prescription drug.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations.
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.
Increases distance from certain parts of public places and places of employment where person may not smoke, aerosolize or vaporize from 10 feet to 25 feet.
Requires local public health authorities and coordinated care organizations to provide funding to support school-based programs providing dental disease prevention services.
Designates April of each year as Arab-American Heritage Month.