Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Sheri Schouten
Sponsored
Became law4
Authorizes Health Licensing Office to issue license to practice genetic counseling to qualified applicant.
Requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt policies that require use of smoke evacuation system during surgical procedures likely to generate surgical smoke.
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
Prohibits manufacturing, retrofitting, selling, leasing, subletting or otherwise placing into stream of commerce any crib bumper pads or crib equipped with crib bumper pads.
In committee10
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene container in selling, offering for sale, serving or dispensing prepared food to public.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to study methods for disposal of sharps waste and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Department of Corrections to study issues relating to adults in custody who fight wildland fires and to provide results of study to Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2021.
For purposes of Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act, expands definition of "public place" to include common areas of commercial residential buildings and residential buildings with two or more rental units.
Requires policy or certificate of health insurance to cover specified health services without prior authorization.
Requires insurers to annually increase reimbursement paid to integrative medicine providers based on cost of living increases unless insurers show good cause for not increasing reimbursement.
Requires agency to include economic impact on coordinated care organizations, including cost of compliance effect, in statement of fiscal impact required before agency adopts, amends or repeals administrative rule.
Increases distance from certain parts of public places and places of employment in which person may not smoke, aerosolize or vaporize from 10 feet to 25 feet.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Modifies description of marriage.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 62
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators.
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Prohibits remote sales of inhalant delivery systems.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to allow for installation and service of public electric vehicle charging stations in parking spaces that are part of facilities of state park system.
Directs Oregon Health Authority and specified professional regulatory boards to require licensees regulated by authority or board to complete continuing education related to suicide risk assessment, treatment and management at specified intervals and to report completion of continuing education to authority or board.
Requires persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging.
Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services.
Requires approval from Department of Consumer and Business Services or Oregon Health Authority before any mergers, acquisitions, contracts or affiliations of health care entities and other entities if entities meet or exceed specified thresholds in average net patient revenue or in gross amount of premiums in preceding three fiscal years .
Prohibits homeowners associations from requiring application of pesticide on owner's property except as necessary for ecological or public health.
Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop updated list of equipment for purposes of emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Requires state medical assistance program to provide mental health wellness appointments as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority.
Expands eligibility for protected leave under Oregon Family Leave Act to all employees of covered employer during public health emergency unless employee was employed for fewer than 30 days prior to commencing leave or worked average of less than 25 hours per week in 30 days prior to commencing leave.
Directs Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to establish Child Welfare Equity Advisory Committee to advise commission and Department of Human Services regarding equitable provision of child welfare services.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Requires police officers to be trained in airway and circulatory anatomy and physiology and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to compile and annually post to website report on information reported to authority by coordinated care organizations regarding requests for prior authorization.
Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Requires school or school district to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge to student if school or school district meets requirements of special provisions of federal meal program or if student is from household with income that does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth.
Requires governing body of public body, to extent reasonably possible, to make all meetings accessible remotely through technological means and provide opportunity for members of general public to remotely submit oral and written testimony .
Establishes Task Force on Student Success for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to enter into agreement with nonprofit organization representing sheriffs under which organization is authorized to administer program to produce and sell outdoor recreation search and rescue cards.
Allows expanded practice dental hygienist to perform interim therapeutic restoration.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Authorizes electric cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time.
Requires person that rents utility vehicle to contracting agency to provide records that describe in detail results of most recent inspection that person performed or had performed on utility vehicle's traction, structure, power train, control components and related parts and equipment in compliance with specified rules, regulations or standards.
Requires education provider to prohibit display of any symbols of hate on school property or in education program.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Modifies membership of Hunger Task Force.
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Provides that, if monthly salary of member of individual account program of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan does not exceed $3,333, instead of $2,500, Public Employees Retirement Board shall credit all employee contributions made by member to employee account and credit no employee contributions made by member to employee pension stability account.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Modifies police officer's duty to report misconduct.
Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities unless organization implements equity focused policies that meet certain requirements.
States legislative findings about racism and public safety.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
Directs school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction in oral health as part of health education curriculum.
Defines "device" for purposes of practice of advanced nonablative esthetics.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer program to provide, through coordinated care organizations, palliative care services, as determined by interdisciplinary team, to patients in their choice of residences.
Modifies amount of compensation paid to members of state boards and commissions.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for issuing, renewing or replacing identification card if person who is issued card is experiencing homelessness.
Allows physician assistant to register with Oregon Medical Board for authority to dispense prescription drugs.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to disclose individually identifiable information related to COVID-19 to certain persons and under certain circumstances.
Modifies statute authorizing law enforcement officers to command dispersal of unlawful assemblies and arrest participants who do not disperse.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
Directs Department of Transportation to create emergency contact information form and make form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in individual's motor vehicle record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning.
Requires coordinated care organization, health care provider or health insurer to collect from patient, client or member data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages, disability status, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Modifies crime of interfering with a peace officer or parole and probation officer.
Requires insurer that provides coverage for full replacement costs of damaged or destroyed property to allow insured not less than 12 months within which to repair, rebuild or replace damaged or lost property or, if damage or loss to property occurred in location subject to declaration of emergency and damage or loss is directly related to emergency, not less than 24 months.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Renames Health Care for All Oregon Children program as Cover All People program and expands eligibility to adults who would qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but for their immigration status.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year.
Allows nurse to discuss medical use of marijuana with patient.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Passed the House · 4
Establishes Sound Forestry Practices Subaccount and Family Forestlands Subaccount as subaccounts of State Forestry Department Account.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Prohibits person from conducting or participating in contest, competition, tournament or derby that has objective of taking coyotes for cash or prizes.
Requires at least two commissioners of Oregon Liquor Control Commission to have public health background.
Out of committee · 16
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs.
Requires advisory committee to Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services on collection of data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages and disability status to commission study to inventory state agencies' databases used to compile data on race, ethnicity, language and disability status, ability readiness of data systems to collect data, cost to collect data, needed upgrades to data systems and which data systems are priority for upgrades.
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients, residents, staff and visitors plant-based meals and beverages.
Requires long term care facilities, residential facilities, adult foster homes and facilities with memory care endorsements to have isolation prevention plans to enable residents to communicate with other residents, family members, friends or other external support systems during public emergency.
Adds Reach Code to state building code as specialty code and gives power of administration and interpretation of Reach Code to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Establishes Oregon Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to establish program to create Oregon Critical Disaster Preparedness Stockpile to ensure robust stock of emergency supplies and equipment.
Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Extends and modifies tax credits for donations for individual development accounts.
Establishes Prosperity 1,000 Pilot Program to provide career coaching, occupational training and job placement services for at least 1,000 low-income job seekers residing in areas of concentrated poverty.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for Hunger Task Force to support state's policy on hunger.
Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination.
Requires individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors, multiple employer welfare arrangements and state medical assistance program to provide reimbursement for at least three primary care visits annually in addition to one annual preventive primary care visit covered without cost-sharing.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to prepare report concerning Oregon's current framework for preventing, monitoring and responding to zoonotic disease.
In committee · 26
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Eliminates landlord's ability to terminate residential tenancy without cause.
Requires health care provider who prescribes opioid to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and educational material under specified circumstances.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Expands types of pesticide that may not be included in school list of low-impact pesticides for use in integrated pest management plan.
Prohibits coordinated care organization from pooling restricted reserves, capital or surplus with affiliated coordinated care organization to satisfy financial requirements.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish and maintain uniform rental application system.
Expands eligibility for certain child care subsidy programs.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage.
Requires local governments to allow certain residential development within one-eighth mile of fixed guideway corridor stops.
Requires producers to form or join extended producer responsibility programs for packaging, food serviceware and printing and writing paper.
Expands presumptive cause of occupational disease for covered nonvolunteer firefighters to include any cancer that may result from exposure to substances that nonvolunteer firefighter is routinely exposed to in course of employment as nonvolunteer firefighter.
Prohibits sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade or other distribution for consideration of fur product in State of Oregon.
Increases rate of privilege tax imposed on Oregon motor vehicle dealers upon retail sale of taxable motor vehicle and rate of use tax imposed on storage, use or other consumption in this state of taxable motor vehicle purchased at retail.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was significant factor in criminal behavior.
Modifies definition of radioactive waste for purposes of regulation by State Department of Energy.
Requires health care provider to include information related to diagnosed or suspected brain injury in patient's medical chart and other specified records.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish review process for medical assistance reimbursement rates for costs of dental services.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules requiring infants to be screened to detect certain diseases.
Establishes state policy that career and technical education is provided through seamless system that begins at secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Grants authority to Public Employees Retirement Board to waive or alter certain statutory requirements during state of emergency.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic.
Declares racism as public health crisis in this state.