Provides that labor organization's charging certain employees reasonable fees and costs for representation that is unrelated to negotiation of collective bargaining agreement is not unfair labor practice. Makes conforming changes. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires retail or hospital pharmacy to provide written notice in conspicuous manner of availability of naloxone at pharmacy. Allows pharmacist, upon being presented with prescription for opiate or opioid of specified strength, to offer to prescribe and provide naloxone kit. Removes requirement for written approval by parole or probation officer for administration of synthetic opiate as treatment for opiate addiction if requirements of statute are met. Allows county or local public health authority to waive siting restrictions on methadone clinics to extent necessary to remove unreasonable barriers to patients' access to treatment. Requires monitoring of naloxone equivalents by prescription drug monitoring program. ] Permits Oregon Health Authority to identify by rule other drugs that are subject to monitoring under prescription drug monitoring program. Removes requirement for pharmacy to report name, address, phone number, date of birth and sex of patient for whom naloxone was prescribed. Allows pharmacy, health care professional or pharmacist to distribute multiple naloxone kits to social service agencies or other persons who work with individuals who have experienced opiate overdose and allows subsequent distribution to individual likely to experience opiate overdose or family member of individual. Permits Oregon Health Authority to review prescription monitoring information of individual who dies from drug overdose. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires nonprofit hospitals and their nonprofit affiliated clinics to establish financial assistance policies meeting specified criteria, including reducing charges to low-income patients. Establishes consumer rights with respect to billing and charges for services provided by nonprofit hospitals and their nonprofit affiliated clinics. Requires hospital to post certain information on website, including information regarding its community health needs assessment and three-year strategy to address health care needs of community. Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish community benefit spending floor for hospitals and affiliated clinics. Specifies process for setting community benefit spending floor and factors to be considered. Requires hospital to annually report to authority specified information regarding hospital, its health care facilities and its affiliated clinics. Prohibits insurer from prohibiting hospital from waiving all or part of copayments or deductibles as condition of reimbursement for services under policy or certificate of insurance.
Requires public employer to grant reasonable paid time to public employee who is designated representative to engage in certain activities. Requires public employer, upon request by exclusive representative, to authorize release time to designated representative of exclusive representative. Authorizes public employer and exclusive representative to negotiate and enter into agreements regarding release time. Entitles designated representative to be restored to same position after conclusion of release time. Requires public employer to provide exclusive representative reasonable access to employees in appropriate bargaining unit. Requires employers to provide employee contact information to exclusive representative within certain time limits. Permits public employer to deduct dues, fees and assessments from salary and wages of public employee who has authorized deduction. Requires employer to pay amounts deducted to labor organization. Expands definition of "employment relations" to include labor organization access to represented employees. Makes certain activities, related to labor organization, ] attempts to influence employee to resign from or decline membership , use of employer's electronic mail to discourage membership ] in labor organization or to discourage authorization of deduction for payment to labor organization, ] and employer's encouragement of employee to revoke authorization of deduction for payment to labor organization and provision of certain personally identifiable information about public employees within bargaining unit to entity other than exclusive representative, ] unfair labor practices.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to require that prescription drugs for specified persons ] be labeled or dispensed with informational insert ] in English and other language upon request of practitioner, patient or patient representative . Specifies languages other than English to be used on label and insert and allows board to require additional languages. ] Allows board to determine prescription drugs for which additional informational insert in English and other language may be included. Requires that labels and informational inserts be available in at least 14 languages other than English. Directs board to update available languages at least once every 10 years. Exempts institutional drug outlets from requirements. Directs board to adopt rules to require pharmacy to post signage regarding patients' right to free, competent oral interpretation and translation services. Becomes operative January 1, 2021. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Department of Justice to administer violence prevention funding program in consultation with Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force. Authorizes department to adopt rules. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes Department of State Lands to perform work to acquire and restore operation of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Establishes right of consumer to be educated about ways to reduce cost of prescription drugs. Prevents insurer, pharmacy benefit manager or third party administrator from interfering with right. Requires insurer, pharmacy benefit manager and third party administrator to apply price paid by consumer for prescription drug toward deductible or out-of-pocket maximum regardless of whether consumer used pharmacy benefit to purchase drug.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Title IX enforcement and compliance, sexual harassment prevention and gender discrimination prevention. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance construction and improvement of courthouses. Authorizes county and state to enter into long-term lease agreement or intergovernmental agreement with respect to ownership or operation of courthouse or portions of courthouse that county is required to provide, including law library, in order for county to receive bond proceeds.
