Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Peter Courtney
Sponsored
Became law7
Requires employer to provide paid or unpaid time off for Veterans Day to employees who are veterans.
Establishes Scholars for a Healthy Oregon Initiative to provide free tuition and fees for certain students in health care disciplines in exchange for student commitment to work in underrepresented locations after graduation.
Modifies composition of Commission on Indian Services membership.
Increases punishment for animal neglect in first degree to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, for repeat animal neglect offenders, neglect that occurs in presence of minor child or animal neglect offenses involving 10 or more animals.
Establishes State Fair Council as public corporation.
Removes certain restrictions on authority of certified nurse practitioner or certified clinical nurse specialist to dispense prescription drugs.
Provides that violation of offense of operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device is Class C traffic violation instead of Class D traffic violation .
Out of committee2
Appropriates moneys to Department of Human Services to provide mental health and addiction services to seniors and persons with disabilities.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to create new programs and expand existing programs to increase capacity statewide to provide mental health services and serve individuals with mental illness.
In committee2
Modifies, for purposes of regulating student athlete agents, definitions of "agency contract" and "athlete agent." Expands application of statutes regulating athlete agents to include agents representing student athletes at elementary and secondary schools.
Provides that certain students are entitled to exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Provides that certain students are entitled to exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Directs Secretary of State to conduct annual financial review of moneys collected, borrowed, received and expended by Travel Information Council.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe criteria for training on treatment of opiate overdose and specifies requirements for training.
Creates primary care provider loan repayment program and establishes Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment Fund.
Provides that Interstate 84 in Oregon shall be known as Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Requires beneficiary under residential trust deed to request resolution conference with grantor for purposes of negotiating foreclosure avoidance measure, unless beneficiary is eligible to claim exemption from requirement.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt dispute resolution process to resolve disputes involving termination, extension or renewal of contract between health care entity and coordinated care organization.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt uniform documentation requirements for credentialing providers of telemedicine services.
Establishes requirements for 9-1-1 calls placed from multiline telephone system.
Bans use of motors on Waldo Lake.
Creates exception to requirement that wages due to seasonal farmworker must be paid immediately after termination of employment.
Imposes on nonschool athletic teams requirements for recognizing and responding to possible concussions.
Directs Department of Education to consult with specified entities when developing academic content standards for Oregon Studies and preparing materials to support teacher training and classroom instruction in Oregon Studies.
Authorizes individual licensed to practice medicine or podiatry in another state or country to provide health care services for out-of-state athletic team under certain circumstances.
Creates Work Group on Corrections Health Care Costs.
In committee · 2
Requires coordinated care organization to screen combat veterans and members of Armed Forces for mental health and traumatic brain injury.
Requires specified health care professional training programs to include in required curricula training on standardized clinical breast examinations.