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HB4070 - Relating to schools.
Maxine E. Dexter, Janeen A. Sollman, Lisa Reynolds
Last updated 10 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
The Act tells the OHA to adjust its school-based health center grants for inflation. The Act tells the OHA to issue grants and take other actions to increase school-based health services. The Act authorizes lottery bonds for school-based health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation. Directs the authority to issue grants for the planning and operation of school-based health services. Directs the authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services. Directs the authority to study methods for providing or increasing reimbursement for mental health services delivered through school-based health centers. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health center purposes.
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
HB4119 - Relating to student athletes; and declaring an emergency.
John D. Lively, Jeff Helfrich, Bill Hansell
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
The Act adds protections for payments related to student athletes. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Enhances the protections for post-secondary institutions of education, student athletes and others regarding the provision of compensation for a student's name, image, likeness or athletic reputation. Requires a person who uses a student athlete's athletic reputation in or on certain products for the purpose of making a profit to provide royalty payments to the student athlete. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4084 - Relating to the education of foster children; declaring an emergency.
Susan McLain, Shelly Boshart Davis, Hoa H. Nguyen
Last updated 9 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Creates a program for the education of students who are foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children. Sunsets the plan June 30, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4140 - Relating to victims; declaring an emergency.
Jason S. Kropf, Courtney Neron, Janeen A. Sollman
Last updated 9 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
The Act tells DOJ to include in future budget requests amounts to fund various programs that help victims of crime. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.3). [Digest: The Act gives money to the DOJ to fund various programs that help victims of crime. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.7).] [Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice to fund certain programs that assist victims of crime.] Directs the Department of Justice to include in future budget requests amounts necessary to fund children's advocacy centers, the Survivor Housing Funds grant program and the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund. Directs children's advocacy center directors to biennially submit to the department projected costs and estimates of other funding sources for the center. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
SB1580 - Relating to fraudulent misrepresentation by employers to reduce workers' compensation premiums; declaring an emergency.
Kathleen Taylor, Paul R. Holvey, Thomas Andersen
Last updated 9 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
The Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). [Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).] [Creates the crime of fraudulent misrepresentation by an employer to an insurer of certain employee-related data with the intent to decrease the employer's workers' compensation insurance premium. Punishes by a maximum fine of $125,000 plus specified forms of restitution.] Provides that an employer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the employer knowingly submits a false payroll report with the intent to decrease the employer's premium for workers' compensation insurance. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4099 - Relating to housing; declaring an emergency.
Mark F. Gamba, Court Boice, John D. Lively
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes OHCS guarantee a local government's collection of a fee to be paid by a home builder on a delayed schedule. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee local governments' deferral of system development charges for housing developments. Becomes operative on January 1, 2025. Establishes the Municipal Development Protection Fund for such purposes. Appropriates moneys to the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4071 - Relating to health care licensing; prescribing an effective date.
Edwin L. Diehl, Hai T. Pham, Daniel Bonham
Last updated 10 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
The Act makes a task force to look at health professional regulatory boards. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: Tells health care boards to give short-term permission to work. Starts January 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] [Requires health professional regulatory boards to issue a temporary authorization to practice a health profession to eligible applicants within 10 days of receiving an application for licensure. Defines "health profession" and "health professional regulatory board."] Establishes the Task Force on Health Professional Licensing Modernization. Directs the task force to submit three reports to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health, on or before September 15, 2024, September 15, 2025, and December 15, 2025. Sunsets on December 31, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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
HB4131 - Relating to individual development accounts; declaring an emergency.
Ricardo Ruiz, Deb Patterson, James I. Manning
Last updated 10 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
The Act funds matching deposits for IDA accounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
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