Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund. Directs Department of Transportation to accept donations to fund. Becomes operative January 1, 2021.
Requires school districts to provide coordinated comprehensive school counseling program. Prescribes standards for programs.
Directs Department of Human Services to conduct annual in-person case planning with ward 14 years of age or older during which department informs ward that ward is eligible for transition services and provides ward with assistance in applying for ] accessing transition services, if applicable. Directs department to submit annual report on data relating to transition services for wards. Directs department to submit initial report no later than September 15, 2020. ] Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for provision of transition services to wards.
Prohibits commercial sale of health information by covered entity, business associate, subcontractor, as defined by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or other third party, without authorization of individual whose health information would be included in sale. Makes violation of prohibition unlawful practice. ] Becomes operative January 1, 2021. ] Establishes Task Force on Protecting Health Information. Specifies membership and duties. Requires task force to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary by December 1, 2019. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Appropriates moneys to fund engineering and design work necessary for adding add ] bicycle and pedestrian lane to Bridge of the Gods. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Authorizes administrator of Oregon Prescription Drug Program to cooperate with Canadian provinces or territories in bulk purchase of prescription drugs. Requires administrator to solicit cooperation of provinces and territories no later than December 31, 2019, and to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly by December 1 of each year, beginning in 2020, on responses to solicitations. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Dreamers Access Program to award student loans to eligible students with demonstrated financial need. Provides that maximum amount of loan per student may not exceed $10,000 per academic year or aggregate total of $50,000. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer program by rule. Establishes Dreamers Access Program Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys to commission for purpose of awarding loans and administering program. Requires commission to file annual report with Legislative Assembly stating dollar amount of each loan awarded under program and number of students who received loan under program during previous academic year. Requires commission to file annual report with Legislative Assembly stating total amount of moneys within fund, total amount of moneys appropriated or otherwise provided to fund during current biennium by Legislative Assembly and commission's annual administrative costs for administering program. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission and Department of Veterans' Affairs to adopt by rule additional minimum standards regarding source of tuition revenue for licensing of career schools that receive $10 million or more in annual revenue or that are subsidiary with parent company ] and schools authorized to confer degrees . Establishes different criteria for career schools and schools authorized to confer degrees that collect $1 million or more in annual gross tuition revenue. Establishes civil penalty for violation of standards.
Makes various changes to workers' compensation laws of this state. ] Provides that diagnostic services are compensable under workers' compensation law after industrial accident or occupational disease has been determined to be compensable and if diagnostic services are reasonable and necessary to identify nature or extent of medical condition that may be related to industrial accident or occupational disease. Specifies certain limitations. Provides that employer bears burden of proof in denial of coverage that otherwise compensable condition is no longer major contributing cause of need for treatment and disability of combined condition. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes Adult Suicide Intervention and Prevention Coordinator within Oregon Health Authority. Specifies responsibilities. Requires development of strategic plan to address suicides by adults and develop intervention strategies. Requires strategic plan to be updated every five years. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
