Requires Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study development and administration of program to make payments to essential workers for services performed during COVID-19 pandemic and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to labor on or before September 15, 2023. Sunsets January 2, 2024.
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Directs University of Oregon to conduct study on prevalence of child abuse in this state and to submit report regarding study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for study and report.
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator. Specifies qualifications and duties of coordinator. Directs Department of Corrections to provide coordinator with access to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to carry out duties. Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with organization to conduct assessment of facility in coordination with coordinator. Directs coordinator to create Gender-Responsive Advisory Council. Directs coordinator and council to conduct listening sessions concerning experiences of women and families in criminal justice system. Directs coordinator to provide report to Legislative Assembly during 2025 regular session ] no later than September 1, 2024, that includes summary of assessment, information from listening sessions and policy recommendations. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Department of Revenue to develop schedule allowing personal income taxpayers to voluntarily report taxpayers' self-identified race and ethnicity identifiers. Requires restricted access to collected data. Prohibits access to data by department collection and audit staff or by Internal Revenue Service. Prohibits commercial ] use of data by tax practitioners and tax preparation software vendors for purposes other than preparing and filing of returns . Directs department to report annually, beginning in 2023, on development and implementation of data collection schedule to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to information management and technology. Sunsets reporting requirement on January 2, 2028. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires pharmacist who dispenses opioid prescription to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and information about naloxone under specified circumstances. Creates exceptions to requirement to offer prescription for naloxone or similar drug. Allows pharmacy, health care professional or pharmacist to distribute and administer drug similar to naloxone. Allows certain persons to administer, to individual experiencing opioid overdose, drug similar to naloxone that was not distributed to individual. Requires pharmacies to provide written notice that drug similar to naloxone is available at pharmacy. Requires health benefit plan to provide payment or reimbursement for naloxone prescription and dispensation by pharmacist. Becomes operative January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors and multiple employer welfare arrangements to provide reimbursement for at least three primary care visits annually in addition to one annual preventive primary care visit covered without cost-sharing. Exempts commercial plans offered to public employees by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Prohibits individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors, multiple employer welfare arrangements and , beginning January 1, 2024, state medical assistance program from denying coverage for services provided by behavioral health home and patient centered primary care home because services were provided on same day or in same facility. Limits copayments for services provided by behavioral health home and patient centered primary care home on same day or in same facility. Prohibits individual and group health insurance policies, health care service contractors, multiple employer welfare arrangements and , beginning January 1, 2024, state medical assistance program from requiring prior authorization for specialty behavioral health services provided at behavioral health home or patient centered primary care home.
Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters. Requires Workers' Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee to review material published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health related to cancers associated with nonvolunteer firefighters.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Office to prepare report concerning Oregon's current framework for preventing, monitoring and responding to zoonotic disease. Directs office to present report to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to public health not later than December 31, 2022. Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission, at commission's discretion, to review and update list of prohibited species that may not be imported, possessed, sold, purchased, exchanged or transported in this state due to certain risks to public health. Authorizes commission to institute civil suit for recovery of damages for violation of rule related to list of prohibited species. Prohibits person from selling, offering for sale or otherwise participating in sale or offer for sale of wildlife that is sold alive for purpose of human consumption. Provides that prohibition does not apply to otherwise lawful sale, offer for sale or other participation in sale or offer for sale of animal utilized in farm use or certain marine animals lawfully raised or harvested. Punishes violation by maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Requires commission, when adopting rules authorizing holding of wildlife, to consider public health risks, including risks of zoonotic disease transmission. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Health Information Technology Oversight Council to convene one or more groups of stakeholders and experts to explore options to accelerate, support and improve secure, statewide community information exchanges. Requires council to provide to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health and to human services draft report no later than September 15, 2022, and final report no later than January 31, 2023, on findings of stakeholder and expert groups and recommendations for legislative changes, if needed, to implement statewide health information and community information exchanges. Sunsets February 28, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling disposable cleaning cloths or similar implements ] premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging. Punishes failure to comply with or violation of Act as unlawful trade practice under Unlawful Trade Practices Act. ] Permits city, county or special district that provides wastewater service to enforce compliance with Act by bringing action to recover civil penalty in specified amount. Requires city, county or special district to provide alleged violator with notice of violation. Becomes operative July 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.