Establishes Task Force on Universal Health Care Commission ] charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents. Specifies membership and duties of commission ] task force . Requires recommendations to be guided by specified values and principles. Prescribes requirements for plan design and items that commission ] task force must consider. Requires commission to first meet by November 1, 2019, and provide first report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by March 15, 2020. Requires commission ] members of task force to be appointed by May 31, 2020, and task force to submit to 2021 regular session of Legislative Assembly final recommendations by February 1, 2021, or report on work that remains to be completed ] for design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan and Health Care for All Oregon Board . Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for Medicaid Buy-In program. Specifies elements that must be included in plan, to extent feasible. Requires authority to provide report to Legislative Assembly, no later than May 1, 2020, containing discussion of potential eligibility requirements for Medicaid Buy-In program or public option, options for targeting specified groups, recommendations for legislative changes necessary to implement plan and any federal approval that would be required to implement plan. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires facilities to have designated individual with specialized training to be responsible for carrying out infection prevention and control protocols. Requires Department of Human Services, in coordination with Oregon Health Authority, to communicate regularly with facility administrators regarding best practices and protocols and to notify facilities of elevated risk of disease outbreak in facility's community. Requires administrators and certain employees of facilities and adult foster homes to be trained in preventing and containing disease outbreaks and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to have inspection by department of kitchen and other areas where food is prepared to ensure compliance with health and sanitation laws. Requires Long Term Care Ombudsman to notify licensing agency about any disease outbreak reported to ombudsman by residents or identified by ombudsman and to train designees on how to identify and report disease outbreaks. Applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2021.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage. Specifies eligibility requirements for program and duties of authority in administering program. ] Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens. Requires department to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health, no later than April 15, 2020, findings of study and cost of administering program to provide oral health care to COFA citizens residing in this state. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Allows option to obtain title, but not registration, from Department of Transportation for recreational vehicle qualifying as park model recreational vehicle and meeting other criteria. Provides that recreational vehicle having title issued by Department of Transportation does not qualify as structure. Requires owner to surrender Department of Transportation title for recreational vehicle if converting recreational vehicle to use as structure. Makes recreational vehicle converted to use as structure subject to state building code. Requires seller of new recreational vehicle to provide purchaser with written information listing specified living area systems. Requires that information state for each listed system whether items or components comprising system are covered by warranty and, if so, extent and length of warranty. Removes recreational vehicle construction from regulation by Department of Consumer and Business Services. Changes definition of "recreational vehicle."
Requires public universities, community colleges and community college districts ] certain institutions of higher education to require contractors to employ apprentices and to establish and execute plan for outreach, recruitment and retention of women and minority individuals for certain work relating to improvements to real property. Provides that requirements do not apply if institution of higher education determines that compliance with requirements would cause unreasonable expense or delay or reduce pool of bidders to fewer than three.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Renames crime of intimidation as bias crime. Adds gender identity to list of characteristics of victim, perception of which constitutes defendant's motive to commit crime. Removes requirement that bias crime in the first degree be committed by two or more persons. Modifies bias crime statistics reported to Department of State Police by law enforcement agencies. Directs department to report data collected from law enforcement agencies to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. Directs commission to include gender identity as characteristic of victim constituting aggravating factor when characteristic motivated commission of crime. Directs district attorneys to collect data concerning bias-related crimes and report to commission. Appropriates moneys to , and increases limitation on federal funds expenditures for, Department of Justice for distribution to district attorneys for purposes of collecting and reporting data ] purposes of carrying out provisions of Act . Directs Department of Justice to establish hate crimes telephone hotline. Directs law enforcement agency responding to bias incident to refer victim to qualifying local victims' services or to hate crimes hotline. Creates position of Hate Crimes Response Coordinator in department. Directs department to collect data concerning bias crimes and bias incidents and report to commission. Directs commission to analyze all bias crime and bias incident data received from Department of State Police, district attorneys and Department of Justice, and to report on analysis annually to Governor, Legislative Assembly, Attorney General, Oregon District Attorneys Association, Department of State Police and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Appropriates moneys to commission for purposes of carrying out data analysis ] provisions of Act . Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires manufacturer of prescription drugs to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services planned ] specified increase in price of certain prescription drugs at least 60 days before date of increase. Provides exceptions.
Requires Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to notify Construction Contractors Board of valid wage claim filed against contractor or business who is ] subject to licensing by board. Requires commissioner to notify board if order of determination has become final and if contractor fails to pay construction debt ] unpaid wages within certain time period after date on which order became final unless motion to stay order is pending or has been granted by commissioner . Requires that, for employers that are contractors or businesses licensed by board, order of determination must include statement that failure to pay construction debt ] wage claim and any penalties shall result in commissioner notifying board of such failure and board's suspension of contractor's ] license. Requires board, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to suspend license of contractor or business . Permits board to use notification of final order to take certain disciplinary actions against businesses and owners, officers or responsible managing individual of businesses licensed by board. Provides that business owner who becomes subject to certain penalties and bond requirements while operating business remains responsible for such penalties and bond requirements when business owner ceases operation of business. ] Allows wage claimant to recover unpaid wages from contractor's bond or by obtaining final order issued by Bureau of Labor and Industries. Increases amount that nonowner complainant may recover from bond in certain circumstances. Increases cap on amount of moneys that may be paid from Wage Security Fund to wage claimant.
Directs Chief Medical Examiner to complete and file report of death for person within 45 days after receiving report from Search and Rescue Coordinator, in conjunction with county sheriff, that person is missing in wilderness and presumed dead. ] Establishes process for completing and filing report of death for person missing in wilderness or forested environment and believed to be deceased.