Bills in the 2022 Regular Session, House.
Sheri Schouten
Sponsored
Became law1
Allows person employed by health care facility to practice surgical technology if person has completed and is certified by specified apprenticeship program.
Passed the House1
Increases distance from certain parts of public places and places of employment within which person may not smoke, aerosolize or vaporize inhalant from 10 feet to 25 feet.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Requires Oregon Health Authority, guided by advisory committee to be convened by authority, to provide grants to operate two culturally and linguistically specific mobile health units, as pilot program, to improve health outcomes of Oregonians impacted by racism.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct review of Oregon Route 6 and present report to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2023.
Requires employee or worker of marijuana licensee to report human trafficking on licensed premises to Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.
Modifies composition and duties of Oregon Broadband Advisory Council.
Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters.
Requires Department of Education to conduct survey related to academic assessments administered to students by school districts and to develop recommendations and best practices related to assessments.
Requires insurer and health care service contractor to cover labor and delivery services provided at out-of-network health care facility, and medical transport of individual presenting with signs of labor from in-network facility to out-of-network facility, if services provided at out-of-network facility due solely to diversion of patient from in-network health care facility for reasons related to state or federal declaration of public health emergency.
Requires Health Information Technology Oversight Council to convene one or more groups of stakeholders and experts to explore options to accelerate, support and improve secure, statewide community information exchanges.
Directs Oregon Film and Video Office to establish Creative Opportunity Program to promote film, television, interactive, animation and media industries in Oregon.
Passed the House · 4
Directs county governing body of each county to designate person to ensure interment of unclaimed human remains of veteran or spouse, dependent or survivor of veteran.
Directs State Treasurer to publish annually complete list of publicly traded assets held in investment funds.
Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Out of committee · 14
Modifies financial requirements for coordinated care organization expenditures on social determinants of health and health equity.
Modifies provisions relating to peremptory challenges to jurors.
Requires pharmacist who dispenses opioid prescription to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and information about naloxone under specified circumstances.
Requires individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors and multiple employer welfare arrangements to provide reimbursement for at least three primary care visits annually in addition to one annual preventive primary care visit covered without cost-sharing.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop plan, with advice from work group, to implement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Restaurant Meals Program in Oregon and report plan to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than January 31, 2023.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes position of Tribal Relations Liaison within Department of State Police.
Directs Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board to evaluate and make recommendations on adding diseases to Oregon newborn bloodspot screening panel under specific circumstances.
Directs University of Oregon to conduct study on prevalence of child abuse in this state and to submit report regarding study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to distribute funds to community-based organizations to provide financial assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status recipients for specified purposes.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Transportation for wildlife corridor projects.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study trends in reimbursement paid to specified health care providers by insurers and third party administrators and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2023.
Establishes Task Force on Renewable Diesel.
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator.
In committee · 8
Requires Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study development and administration of program to make payments to essential workers for services performed during COVID-19 pandemic and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to labor on or before September 15, 2023.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to calculate Genuine Progress Indicator to measure economic and social welfare.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs and medical supplies or from provision of medical services from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Imposes requirements for accepting bids and proposals for contracts for provision and delivery of publicly financed behavioral health or addiction treatment or services.
Prohibits manufacturer or supplier from manufacturing, selling, offering to sell or distributing cosmetic or ingredient developed through use of animal test.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish and operate fish incubation box program for rearing of salmonids on suitable waterways in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Directs Department of State Lands, in consultation with State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to establish salmon credit program to encourage voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat and allow persons to meet compensatory mitigation obligations.