Requires nonprofit hospitals and their nonprofit affiliated clinics to establish financial assistance policies meeting specified criteria, including reducing charges to low-income patients. Establishes consumer rights with respect to billing and charges for services provided by nonprofit hospitals and their nonprofit affiliated clinics. Requires hospital to post certain information on website, including information regarding its community health needs assessment and three-year strategy to address health care needs of community. Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish community benefit spending floor for hospitals and affiliated clinics. Specifies process for setting community benefit spending floor and factors to be considered. Requires hospital to annually report to authority specified information regarding hospital, its health care facilities and its affiliated clinics. Prohibits insurer from prohibiting hospital from waiving all or part of copayments or deductibles as condition of reimbursement for services under policy or certificate of insurance.
Sen. James Manning
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Directs district attorney of each county to, no later than December 1, 2020, develop and adopt policies relating to discovery, charging decisions , and case disposition ] sentencing and program recommendations and other specified subjects, and to make policies available to public on website. Requires review and readoption of policies every five years.
Requires public employer to grant reasonable paid time to public employee who is designated representative to engage in certain activities. Requires public employer, upon request by exclusive representative, to authorize release time to designated representative of exclusive representative. Authorizes public employer and exclusive representative to negotiate and enter into agreements regarding release time. Entitles designated representative to be restored to same position after conclusion of release time. Requires public employer to provide exclusive representative reasonable access to employees in appropriate bargaining unit. Requires employers to provide employee contact information to exclusive representative within certain time limits. Permits public employer to deduct dues, fees and assessments from salary and wages of public employee who has authorized deduction. Requires employer to pay amounts deducted to labor organization. Expands definition of "employment relations" to include labor organization access to represented employees. Makes certain activities, related to labor organization, ] attempts to influence employee to resign from or decline membership , use of employer's electronic mail to discourage membership ] in labor organization or to discourage authorization of deduction for payment to labor organization, ] and employer's encouragement of employee to revoke authorization of deduction for payment to labor organization and provision of certain personally identifiable information about public employees within bargaining unit to entity other than exclusive representative, ] unfair labor practices.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to require that prescription drugs for specified persons ] be labeled or dispensed with informational insert ] in English and other language upon request of practitioner, patient or patient representative . Specifies languages other than English to be used on label and insert and allows board to require additional languages. ] Allows board to determine prescription drugs for which additional informational insert in English and other language may be included. Requires that labels and informational inserts be available in at least 14 languages other than English. Directs board to update available languages at least once every 10 years. Exempts institutional drug outlets from requirements. Directs board to adopt rules to require pharmacy to post signage regarding patients' right to free, competent oral interpretation and translation services. Becomes operative January 1, 2021. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires institutions of higher education to both adopt written policies and require certain individuals to participate in annual training on sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. Establishes required content for policies and training.
Requires pharmacies to notify person to whom prescription drug is dispensed of availability of prescription reader. Requires pharmacies to provide prescription reader to person who is blind. Exempts pharmacies located in correctional institutions ] institutional drug outlets from requirements. Defines "prescription reader." Requires State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that agreement for deferred resolution of criminal cases ] conditional discharge for controlled substance offenses may not contain requirement that defendant enter plea of guilty or no contest. Applies to diversion offered by district attorney, conditional discharge for controlled substance offenses and diversion for driving while under the influence of intoxicants. ] Requires that agreement contain waiver of rights by defendant. Provides that agreement does not constitute admission of guilt and is not sufficient to warrant finding of guilty by court. Authorizes court to find defendant guilty of offense based on waiver of rights if defendant violates agreement. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on responding to officer-involved domestic violence. Defines "officer-involved domestic violence." Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to adopt rules related to officer-involved domestic violence. Establishes Task Force on Officer-Involved Domestic Violence. Directs task force to develop model policy on officer-involved domestic violence. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2020. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates Outdoor Education and Recreation Grant Program. Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to assist school districts, education service districts, after-school care programs, nonprofit organizations and community-based organizations in providing outdoor education and recreation programs.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to study feasibility of implementing, and to develop plan to implement, program to allow wholesale importation of prescription drugs into Oregon. Requires board to submit plan and report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to health care no later than June 30, 2020 . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.