Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Tina Kotek
Sponsored
Became law7
Establishes standards for number of licensed nurses or school nurses required for number of students based on health needs of students.
Requires chain restaurant to make certain nutritional information regarding menu items offered by restaurant available to customers.
Includes implementation of remediation plan to remediate or mitigate severe adverse conditions on farmland as eligible farm use for purposes of special assessment for property taxation.
Creates category of school-age recorded programs subject to regulation by Child Care Division of Employment Department.
Creates Private Child-Caring Agencies Fund.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop procedures for assessment by qualified mental health professional or licensed medical professional prior to issuance of prescription for more than one psychotropic medication for child in foster care.
Modifies qualifications for dental hygienists authorized to practice dental hygiene without license .
Passed the House2
Establishes Voluntary Central Background Registry in Child Care Division of Employment Department for individuals employed or volunteering to provide services to children.
Allows Oregon Liquor Control Commission to place restrictions on license of premises that experiences specified problems for purpose of preventing continuation of problems.
Out of committee2
Increases income limit from 185 percent to 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines for eligibility of pregnant women for medical assistance.
Allows Department of Human Services to contract directly with providers to provide mental health and developmental disabilities programs if department finds that program offered by county is not satisfactory.
In committee6
Directs Department of Human Services to take steps to maximize enrollment of children in state medical assistance program.
Prohibits sale or purchase of catalytic converter unless seller or purchaser has permit issued by Department of Transportation.
Directs Department of Human Services to report, by percentage, race or ethnicity of children in foster care system compared to race or ethnicity of children in general population.
Creates new category of medical assistance for individuals under 21 years of age who, at age 18, were in foster care.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide medical assistance, during prescribed presumptive eligibility period, to pregnant women who meet income criteria as determined by qualified provider.
Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions based on person receiving federal rent subsidy payments and other local, state or federal housing assistance.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Includes removal of noxious weeds as part of Oregon Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Provides that veterinarian or veterinary technician acting within scope of license is not pesticide user subject to pesticide use reporting system.
Requires health plans to cover services of professional counselors and marriage and family therapists if certain other services are covered by plan.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Creates work group on maternal mental health disorders within Department of Human Services.
Creates Work Group on Prescriptive Authority for Licensed Psychologists for purposes related to psychologists prescribing medications.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are at least 11 years of age but no older than 26 years of age.
Establishes way of necessity for private sewer lines.
Directs Superintendent of Public Instruction to close Oregon School for the Blind by September 1, 2009.
Requires child care providers exempt from certification or registration who receive funds from Department of Human Services to attend orientation.
Permits certain health professional regulatory boards to adopt rules that permit practitioners to prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to partners of patient without examining partner for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Requires community college seeking approval from State Board of Education to offer new career pathways certificate of completion program to give notice to Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development of intent to offer program.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Changes calculation of capitation rates for fully capitated health plans that do not have contract with hospital to provide inpatient or outpatient hospital services under specified statutory provisions.
Allows Department of Human Services to contract with victim services providers to place staff members from victim services providers at child welfare offices.
Requires public electric utility that supplies customer with outdoor lighting fixtures to provide customer option of using shielded outdoor lighting fixtures.
Increases processing fee chargeable to employee by employer for garnishments of employee's wages.
Passed the House · 3
Transfers administration of Rural Health Services Program from Oregon Student Assistance Commission to Office of Rural Health.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Prohibits covered employer from requiring eligible employee to use accrued vacation leave when taking family leave.
Out of committee · 8
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
Requires health insurers and state medical assistance program to reimburse for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
Creates procedure and establishes criteria by which Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services may approve or disapprove health insurance premium rates for small employers or individual health benefit plans.
Requires state funding for graduate medical education to be used for training primary care medical residents.
Establishes medical education loan program for new primary care physicians in Oregon.
Establishes Commission on Health Care Infrastructure in Department of Human Services.
Revises certificate of need process.
In committee · 24
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for health insurance premium payments made during tax year by individual taxpayer for health benefit coverage of taxpayer, taxpayer's spouse or dependents.
Allows tenant to place political signs anywhere on space owned or leased by tenant.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Changes percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Establishes procedure for employment-related marijuana drug testing and review of results by medical review officer.
Allows public utility full cost recovery for hydrogen power station investments.
Creates Drug Take Back Program in State Board of Pharmacy.
Requires Department of Human Services to prepare and submit to Legislative Assembly annual report containing list of employers with employees receiving public assistance, including supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.
Directs Department of Human Services and Department of Education to develop strategic plan to improve transition from high school to adult living for persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Creates Construction Diversity Oversight Board and prescribes powers and duties of board.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Contractor and Workforce Diversity Pilot Program to aid in increasing diversity among contractors to which department awards public improvement contracts and among subcontractors and workers employed in connection with public improvement contracts.
Requires person who bids for public improvement contract to demonstrate responsibility by showing that person has record of meeting or exceeding standards for workforce diversity on previous contracts.
Increases registration fees for certain vehicles.
Clarifies responsibility of Department of Human Services relating to drinking water.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Requires facilitators of income tax refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation payment instruments to obtain license from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Authorizes Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to require reporting of health care information from health insurers, third party administrators and other specified entities.
Prohibits discrimination for medical services based on individual's eligibility for Medicare if individual has existing relationship with service provider.
Requires Department of Human Services to use Oregon Prescription Drug Program to purchase drugs for medical assistance recipients if cost-effective.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and operate marijuana production facility and distribute marijuana to pharmacies for dispensing to medical marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers.
Permits small woodland owner to register vehicle as farm vehicle.
Initiates Oregon Community Power activation to acquire Portland General Electric Company.
Establishes Election Day as legal holiday in Oregon.