Requires insurer and health care service contractor to cover labor and delivery services provided at out-of-network health care facility , and medical transport of individual presenting with signs of labor from in-network facility to out-of-network facility, if services provided at out-of-network facility due solely to diversion of patient from in-network health care facility for reasons related to state or federal declaration of public health emergency. Prescribes rate of reimbursement and prohibits deductible, out-of-pocket maximum, copayment or coinsurance requirement in excess of such requirements applicable to in-network providers. Exempts Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires health benefit plan coverage of emergency medical services transport of pregnant woman presenting with signs of labor between medical facilities. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Directs Oregon Investment Council ] State Treasurer to publish annually complete list of publicly traded assets held in investment funds. Directs council and ] State Treasurer to publish information relating to assessments of ] report on climate-related financial risk to assets held in investment funds. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Declares legislative intent to address risk to workers due to climate change impacts and climate hazards.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to award grants to ] distribute funds to community-based organizations to provide financial assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status recipients for specified purposes. Sunsets January 1, 2025. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Educator Advancement Council to provide professional learning opportunities related to ethnic studies standards adopted by department. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop plan, with advice from work group, to implement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Restaurant Meals Program in Oregon and report plan to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than September 1, 2022 ] January 31, 2023 . Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to study use of impact statements in legislative deliberations and to report findings to Legislative Policy and Research Committee on or before February 1, 2023. ] develop pilot racial and ethnic impact statement template containing specified items. Requires director, following conferral with Senate and House Interim Committees on Rules, to select six measures enacted during 2021 regular session, apply pilot template to all six measures and report findings, process and experience on preliminary basis to House Interim Committee on Rules. Permits director, following feedback provided by House Interim Committee on Rules, to modify template and then provide final impact statements and process report to Senate and House Interim Committees on Rules and to policy committees that had heard test measures during 2021 regular session. Requires director, following presentations to interim committees, to propose policy to Legislative Policy and Research Committee that describes content, objectives and form of racial and ethnic impact statements. Requires committee to deliberate on, modify where appropriate, and adopt policy. Requires director, for odd-numbered year regular sessions occurring in 2023 or later years, to prepare racial and ethnic impact statements on limited number of legislative measures within specified policy areas. Requires statements to be prepared in conformance with policy adopted by Legislative Policy and Research Committee. Requires director, following completion of 2023 regular session, to report to House Interim Committee on Rules on racial and ethnic impact statement process. Authorizes committee to consider applying impact statement process to additional policy areas, even-numbered year regular sessions, special sessions and meetings of Emergency Board. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes position of Tribal Relations Liaison within Department of State Police. Directs Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure ] provide, no later than October 31, 2022, in report to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly, operational plan for training police officers and certified reserve officers are trained ] to investigate and report cases involving missing or murdered indigenous persons. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated. Specifies that person's residence is where person resided prior to incarceration. .
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.