Rep. Knute Buehler

Requires coordinated care organization, Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to spend at least 12 percent of total medical expenditures on primary care by January 1, 2023. Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish requirements for carrier to submit plan for increasing spending on primary care as percentage of total medical expenditures if carrier is spending less than 12 percent of total medical expenditures. Extends sunset on Primary Care Transformation Initiative.

Adds Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association to list of entities eligible for individual income tax return checkoff contribution. Provides conditions for use of contributions. Applies to individual income tax returns for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Exempts person serving in Oregon National Guard from requirement to enroll in community college courses within six months of attaining previous highest level of education in order to qualify for Oregon Promise grant , provided that person enrolls in community college courses within six months of completing initial active duty training .

Changes term "osteopath" to "osteopathic physician." Clarifies that doctors of osteopathic medicine practice medicine as physicians.

Commemorates 69th anniversary of Vanport flood and remembers survivors and those who lost their lives.

Allows pharmacists to prescribe and administer injectable hormonal contraceptives and prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives. Defines "injectable hormonal contraceptive" and "self-administered hormonal contraceptive." Requires prescription drug benefit programs and prescription drug benefits offered under health benefit plans to provide coverage for pharmacist consultations. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to adopt rules to require employers to provide written notice to employees about state and federal earned income tax credits. Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to include information about earned income tax credits in posters regarding state minimum wage. Requires Employment Department to provide information to recipients of unemployment insurance benefits about earned income tax credits. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Encourages Oregonians to honor and remember those who have given their lives in military service in war at noon on 21st day of each month.

Authorizes city or county to designate area within jurisdiction as vertical housing development zone. Removes Housing and Community Services Department from designation process. Requires city or county to consider potential for displacement of households within proposed vertical housing development zone before designating zone. Establishes requirements for city or county to certify vertical housing development project within zone. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Removes limitation on number of sobering facilities that may be registered with Oregon Health Authority. Requires registration request to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. Requires authority to confirm receipt of registration by certified mail within 30 days.