Requires certain insurers to reimburse cost of specified services provided by local mental health authorities. Requires coordinated care organization to contract with counties to reimburse cost of specified services provided to members of coordinated care organization by local mental health authorities.
Expands health benefit plan coverage of childbirth and pregnancy-related health care expenses. Specifies reimbursement of services provided by freestanding birthing centers. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health on implementation of expanded benefits. Requires that specified services related to pregnancy and childbirth be covered by state medical assistance program. Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe uniform payment methodology for freestanding birthing centers.
Establishes Vacation Occupancy Task Force. Requires task force to report findings and recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to housing on or before September 15, 2020. Sunsets task force December 31, 2020. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes product stewardship program for household hazardous waste. Establishes Household Hazardous Waste Stewardship Fund. Becomes operative January 1, 2020. Requires initial plans for household hazardous waste stewardship programs to be submitted to Department of Environmental Quality no later than April 1, 2021. Requires household hazardous waste stewardship program developed pursuant to approved plan to be implemented no earlier than January 1, 2022. Imposes penalty for violation by retailer of program provisions not to exceed $100 per day for each day of violation. Imposes penalty for violation by manufacturer or stewardship organization of program provisions not to exceed $25,000 per day for each day of violation. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to appoint long term care wage board to examine factors that may present challenges to recruiting and retaining long term care employees. Prohibits employers from retaliating against long term care employees who participate in board activities. Permits commissioner to assess civil penalty against employers that retaliate against employees. Requires moneys collected as penalties to be used to reimburse board in carrying out board's duties. Requires board to adopt recommended compensation schedule for long term care employees. Requires board to submit annual report to Bureau of Labor and Industries. Allows Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to consider recommended schedule in establishing compensation rates for long term care employees. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires physician assistants who practice medicine full-time to receive eight hours of supervision each month. Requires physician assistants who practice medicine less than full-time to receive supervision on prorated basis. Prohibits insurer offering health benefit plan from denying or discounting reimbursement for certain primary care or specialty service to certain licensed health care providers. Takes effect on July 1, 2019.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to request employee to enter agreement that would prevent employee from disclosing or discussing conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault. Allows civil and administrative remedies for violation against unlawful employment practice. Makes unlawful employment practice for any person to aid, abet, incite, compel, coerce or conceal any acts prohibited under provisions of Act and any acts that constitute certain types of unlawful discrimination. Clarifies that employer's withholding of certain information from person who is owner, president, partner or corporate officer of employer, during course of employer's investigation, is not unlawful employment practice, provided that employer makes person aware of ongoing investigation. Allows person who is owner, president, partner or corporate officer to be held individually liable for engaging in prohibited acts. Requires all employers to adopt written policy containing procedures and practices for reduction and prevention of certain types of unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault. Requires employers to post notice in workplace and provide employees with copy of policy at time of hire. Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to make available on bureau's website model procedures or polices that employers may use to establish employer policies. Makes voidable any agreement to pay severance pay to person found to have engaged in conduct that violates employer's policies or provisions of Act. Extends timeline for filing complaint with Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries alleging certain unlawful employment practices. Extends statute of limitations from one year to seven years to file civil action for certain violations of law. Becomes operative January 1, 2020. Permits commissioner to adopt rules and take any action before operative date of Act that is necessary to enable bureau to exercise duties, powers and functions conferred on bureau. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt by rule program that provides financial assistance to recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance for purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from participating farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets. Requires program match amounts that recipient spends on certain eligible foods. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department to implement program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules concerning sale of short term health insurance policies with terms of 12 months or less. Specifies requirements. Sunsets December 31, 2021.
Expands eligibility for Women, Infants and Children Program nutrition assistance to children five years of age or older who have not entered kindergarten ] begun attending school , paid for with state funds. Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide notice to families receiving Women, Infants and Children Program nutrition assistance if federal funding for program terminates.
