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HB4114 - Relating to behavioral health.
Tawna Sanchez, Court Boice, Julianne Fahey
Last updated 10 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
The Act changes current laws about where police may take a person who is in public while on drugs or drunk. The Act expands how long a person may be held after being given an opioid reversal drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Permits a police officer to take a person who is publicly intoxicated or under the influence of controlled substances, but who is not incapacitated, to their dwelling or, if the person is unable to identify a dwelling, to a treatment facility or sobering facility. Allows a person who has recently received an opioid reversal medication to be admitted to a treatment facility or sobering facility until the person is medically stable and has had a reasonable opportunity to engage in case management, or 72 hours after admission, whichever occurs first.
STATUS
Failed
SB1579 - Relating to child abuse; declaring an emergency.
Tim Knopp, David Brock Smith, Jeff Helfrich
Last updated 9 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). [Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. The Act creates a task force to audit how this state has complied with Karly's Law and to study other matters related to services provided to victims of child abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3).] Establishes the Children's Advocacy Center Fund. Provides that the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate sufficient moneys to the fund that are necessary to fully fund the existing grant program to establish, maintain and support children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers, and to support county child abuse multidisciplinary teams. [Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the existing grant program.] Directs the Department of Justice to develop and administer a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports provided by children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the grant program. [Establishes the Task Force on County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams to audit Oregon's compliance with Karly's Law, to study and provide proposals for optimal funding rates for children's advocacy centers and to identify barriers to access to child abuse multidisciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services on or before December 3, 2024. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for purposes of the task force.] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4159 - Relating to support services; declaring an emergency.
Hoa H. Nguyen, Thuy C. Tran, Courtney Neron
Last updated 10 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Makes the office charged with helping persons who are new to the U.S. and Oregon award contracts to entities to provide the persons with support services. Creates a council to advise the office on the support services. Makes the office conduct an annual audit of groups providing the support services. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to contract with entities to provide eligible newcomers with case management, short-term and long-term support services. Defines "eligible newcomers." Creates an advisory council to serve as a forum for sharing information and to advise the office on the provision of the support services. Directs the office to conduct an annual performance audit of each entity contracted by the office to provide the support services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4150 - Relating to prescription monitoring program; and prescribing an effective date.
Mark Owens, Cyrus Javadi, Janelle Bynum
Last updated 10 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
The Act allows for some doctors or people like doctors to be told when a patient overdoses on a drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in certain circumstances when the practitioner's patient has a fatal or nonfatal overdose. Limits the use and retention of practitioner information. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. Sunsets January 1, 2028.
STATUS
Passed
SB1583 - Relating to access to materials; declaring an emergency.
Lew Frederick, Tawna Sanchez, Elizabeth Steiner Hayward
Last updated 10 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
This Act does not allow a board or a person to choose or not choose materials that are used in a school when the choice is discrimination. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, program materials or library books that are used in the public schools of this state. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1592 - Relating to expansion of behavioral health workforce; declaring an emergency.
Jeffrey S. Golden, Robert A. Nosse, Nathan Sosa
Last updated 10 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Gives money to a state agency to give to some colleges to help train more mental health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain institutions of higher education to expand the behavioral health workforce in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
SB1578 - Relating to health care interpreters; prescribing an effective date.
James I. Manning, Travis Nelson, Maxine E. Dexter
Last updated 9 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
The Act directs the OHA to set up a health care interpreter management system. The Act requires the OHA to contract with a nonprofit entity to establish a recruitment and retention program. The Act sets out certain requirements for the nonprofit. The Act requires the nonprofit to submit a report to the OHA each year. The Act requires the OHA to seek out all means to get federal matching funds to pay costs of health care interpreter services. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish and maintain an online portal with the functionality to provide online scheduling for health care providers and coordinated care organizations to use to contact health care interpreters directly for purposes of serving Oregon Health Plan members and to process billing for health care interpreter services that were rendered to Oregon Health Plan members. Requires the authority to contract with a nonprofit entity to develop and administer a health care interpreter recruitment and retention program. Provides criteria and reporting requirements that the contracting nonprofit must meet. Requires the authority to seek any federal funding available for costs of reimbursing health care interpreters for health care interpretation services provided to [medical assistance recipients] Oregon Health Plan members no later than January 1, 2025. Modifies certain biennial appropriations made from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority. Establishes and modifies limitations on expenditures for certain biennial expenses for the Oregon Health Authority. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Passed
HB4137 - Relating to high school diploma requirements.
Lisa Reynolds, Thomas Andersen, Maxine E. Dexter
Last updated 10 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Allows a student who has finished an IB program to not have to meet some requirements for a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
STATUS
Passed
HB4082 - Relating to funding for expanded learning opportunities; declaring an emergency.
Susan McLain, Lew Frederick, Courtney Neron
Last updated 10 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
Directs ODE to fund summer learning programs and to study how to provide learning during nonschool hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. Establishes requirements of the program. Directs the department to study and propose recommendations to develop an initiative that addresses education disparities through increased summer and after-school learning opportunities. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
SB1577 - Relating to voter registration; prescribing an effective date.
James I. Manning, Travis Nelson, Robert A. Nosse
Last updated 10 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
The Act tells LPRO to study more options for AVR and to tell the Legislature what they found out before the 2027 session. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act allows people to register to vote when they apply for college. The Act tells the DOR to provide the SOS with records related to voter registration. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).] [Extends automatic voter registration to applicants for admission to public institutions of higher education. Requires the Department of Revenue to provide the Secretary of State with records containing information related to voter registration.] Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to study additional automatic voter registration programs and report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules on or before October 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following sine die.
STATUS
Failed
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