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HB4108 - Relating to abortion.
Barbara L. Levy, David Brock Smith, Mark Owens
Last updated 10 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Requires a health care worker who is present when a child is born alive after an abortion to give the same level of care as if the child was born alive after a normal birth. Makes it a crime if a health care worker knowingly or recklessly does not do so. Allows the person who had an abortion to sue a health care worker for knowingly or recklessly not giving the required care to a child born alive after an abortion. Allows the court to protect the private information of the person who had an abortion. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or an attempted abortion. Requires a health care practitioner to ensure that a child born alive is transported to a hospital. Creates crime for failure to exercise proper standard of care, punishable by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Allows specified person to bring civil action for damages and equitable relief against a health care practitioner for failing to exercise proper standard of care. Directs the court to award attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff. Allows the court to order that the identity or personally identifiable information of specified persons is protected from disclosure.
STATUS
Failed
HB4013 - Relating to wine packaging; declaring an emergency.
Anna Scharf, Mark W. Meek, David Gomberg
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
This Act excludes glass wine containers from a law that tells producers to take steps to dispose of their packaging. The exclusion lasts for one year. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: This Act tells the DEQ not to enforce certain laws related to wine packaging. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).] [Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing the provisions of the producer responsibility program applicable to wine packaging.] [Sunsets on July 1, 2026.] Excludes glass wine containers from definition of "covered product" under producer responsibility law until July 1, 2026. Directs Environmental Quality Commission to amend material-specific collection targets for glass. Directs producer responsibility organization to charge one-time fee to members that are producers of glass wine containers. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
HB4139 - Relating to certificates of need.
Lucetta Elmer, Cyrus Javadi, Court Boice
Last updated 10 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
The Act applies to the certificate of need program in the OHA. The Act excludes new nursing homes and new hospitals providing certain types of care. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Excludes new hospitals providing inpatient psychiatric services, inpatient rehabilitation services or inpatient or outpatient substance use treatment and new long term care facilities from requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
STATUS
Failed
HB4105 - Relating to programs providing targeted case management nursing services to perinatal families; declaring an emergency.
Lisa Reynolds, James I. Manning, Deb Patterson
Last updated 10 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
The Act gives money to OHA to pay for some of the costs of the program in which nurses visit families while a parent is pregnant and for two years after that. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority for the costs of targeted case management services provided in the nurse home visiting services program for families during pregnancy and for two years after the pregnancy. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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
HB4134 - Relating to housing; declaring an emergency.
Lucetta Elmer, David Gomberg, Jeff Helfrich
Last updated 9 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
This Act makes OBDD give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: This Act makes DAS give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Requires the [Oregon Department of Administrative Services] Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households. Requires cities receiving grants to provide reports to the Oregon Business Development Department. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Passed
HB4046 - Relating to housing; prescribing an effective date.
Rick Lewis, Shelly Boshart Davis, David Brock Smith
Last updated 10 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
This Act allows rural residents to build an extra house for their families. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
SB1590 - Relating to boats; prescribing an effective date.
Mark W. Meek, David Brock Smith, Janelle Bynum
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
The Act repeals laws related to boats and towed sports. The Act changes laws about boating safety education. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Repeals provisions related to the towed watersports program. Provides that the minimum standard for boating safety education must include instruction relating to towed watersports safety education. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
STATUS
Failed
HB4050 - Relating to compensation differentials under pay equity requirements; declaring an emergency.
Shelly Boshart Davis, Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, Mark W. Meek
Last updated 10 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
The Act removes an exception to the state law concerning pay equity requirements. The Act changes the law to add to the list of factors that an employer can use as a reason for a pay differential. The Act becomes effective when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). Provides factors upon which compensation differentials may be based for an employer to lawfully pay employees who perform work of comparable character at different compensation levels. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
STATUS
Failed
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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