Human Services and Early Childhood

OR - Senator Herman Baertschiger Jr. (R)

Title:

Vice-chair

OR - Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson (D)

Title:

Member

OR - Senator Alan Olsen (R)

Title:

Member

OR - SB561 Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.

OR - SB632 Directs Department of Human Services to establish two pilot programs in rural and urban regions of this state to improve quality and effectiveness of foster care for children and wards placed in legal custody of department for care, placement and supervision.

OR - SB49 Extends sunset for tax credit for contributions to Office of Child Care.

OR - SB501 Establishes Task Force on Capital Construction Budget Process.

OR - SB444 Directs Housing and Community Services Department to submit report related to housing stabilization programs to interim legislative committees no later than July 1, 2016.

OR - SB902 Revives section 1, chapter 598, Oregon Laws 2013.

OR - SB226 Establishes Task Force on Client and Staff Safety to make recommendations on certain issues regarding staff safety, resident care and operation of Stabilization and Crisis Units.

OR - SB774 Requires Home Care Commission to adopt statewide plan to expand home care worker workforce.

OR - SB430 Authorizes State Board of Psychologist Examiners to impose sanctions on person regulated by board who has been convicted of sex crime.

OR - HB2578 Permits individual in hospice program, or next of kin or personal representative of individual who has died, to terminate, without penalty, residential cable service or residential telecommunications service.

OR - HB3257 Extends sunset on collection of certain moneys from electric companies or Oregon Community Power for purposes related to low-income electric bill payment assistance.

OR - HB2629 Requires owners of rental property subject to federal rural rental housing loans to provide at least one year's notice of date of maturity of loans to tenants, Housing and Community Services Department, housing authorities and local governments.

OR - HB3292 Requires Oregon Health Authority to identify duties that tourist facility landlord may contractually delegate to tenant renting or leasing all or part of tourist facility for certain purposes.

OR - HB3143 Provides that tax-exempt nonprofit organization may supply to Oregon Liquor Control Commission informational materials about human trafficking, including adhesive stickers, provided that materials contain objectively verifiable information only about human trafficking.

OR - HB2219 Requires Department of Human Services to convene work group to study consolidation of application processes for human and social services and to report recommendation to Legislative Assembly.

OR - HB3016 Modifies provisions of capital gains exemption for amounts received for sale of manufactured dwelling park.

OR - HB2413 Prohibits licensing agency from issuing initial license to residential care facility that has not conducted market study.

OR - HB2414 Permits parents or guardians of minor adoptees or minor genetic siblings of adoptees to use and register with voluntary adoption registries.

OR - HB3187 Extends terms of office of members of Commission for the Blind.

OR - SB233 Requires Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority to suspend, instead of terminate, medical assistance for person who is expected to remain in correctional facility for more than 12 months.

OR - HB2564 Permits local governments to impose conditions on approved permits that effectively establish sales price for up to 30 percent of residential development or limit purchase to class or group of purchasers in exchange for one or more developer incentives.

OR - SB659 Requires Department of Human Services and its contractors to assist noncustodial parent, who resides in Oregon, in specified ways to obtain home and community-based services for nonresident child during child's visitation with parent for six weeks or more.

OR - SB43 Extends sunset for additional personal exemption credit for taxpayer with severe disability.

OR - SB760 Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.

OR - HB2195 Directs county to use proceeds acquired by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens or in exchange for land originally acquired by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens to refund county general fund.

OR - SB840 Authorizes licensed independent practitioner to initiate or approve prehearing detention in hospital or nonhospital facility of person who is subject of civil commitment proceedings.

OR - SB212 Extends sunset for tax credit for contributions to Office of Child Care.

OR - SB832 Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe by rule standards for integrating behavioral health services and physical health services in patient centered primary care homes and behavioral health homes.

OR - SB50 Extends sunset for tax credit for individual development account donations.

OR - HB2913 Deletes outdated and obsolete provisions and updates references in laws relating to human services programs or services.

OR - HB2442 Changes name of State Housing Council to Oregon Housing Stability Council.

OR - HB3082 Creates alternative definition of "low income" for purposes of nonprofit corporation low income housing.

OR - HB2473 Authorizes State Board of Licensed Social Workers to adopt rules providing for temporary licensure, certification and registration related to practice of social work.

OR - HB2415 Permits Department of Human Services or Oregon Health Authority to deliver written notice to financial institution after individual dies to request financial institution to provide certain information about accounts in deceased individual's name, balances on deposit on date of individual's death, account activity and names of individuals to whom financial institution disbursed funds from accounts.

OR - HB2394 Requires Director of Oregon State Lottery to provide information about lottery prize recipient to Department of Human Services within seven days after paying lottery prize of $1,250 or more.

OR - SB229 Requires members of Consumer Advisory Council who advise Director of Oregon Health Authority on provision of mental health services to be compensated by Oregon Health Authority for performing duties of council.

OR - HB2890 Requires Department of Human Services to ensure that substitute care providers for child or ward in care or custody of department provide opportunities to participate in at least one extracurricular activity and apply reasonable and prudent parent standard in determining participation.

OR - HB2889 Requires Department of Human Services to ensure child 12 years of age or older in custody of department for at least six consecutive months is entitled to assistance to establish savings account at financial institution.

OR - SB951 Modifies size and membership of Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission.

OR - HB3391 Authorizes Attorney General to file action on behalf of Department of Human Services employee for stalking citation or stalking protective order upon request that has been approved in writing by Director of Human Services or designee and sets forth sufficient facts and evidence, and that in opinion of Attorney General is likely to succeed.

OR - HB3323 Authorizes type B area agency or other person designated by Department of Human Services in county that serves population of 650,000 or more persons to investigate suspected abuse and to bring civil action against person who engages in abuse of vulnerable person.

OR - SB213 Requires Early Learning Council to develop metrics for funding Early Learning Hubs.

OR - SB741 Directs Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules for home studies and placement reports in adoption proceedings that require that equal consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as prospective adoptive parents, and that greater consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as compared to other persons who are not relatives or current caretakers.

OR - SB939 Directs Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to create program to assist children of incarcerated parents.

OR - SB710 Requires state health plans, health insurers, health care providers or health care clearinghouses to provide, upon request, one copy of individually identifiable health information free of charge to individual, or to personal representative, when individual is appealing denial of Social Security disability benefits.

OR - SB500 Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for construction of Boys & Girls Club in Rockwood neighborhood of Gresham.

OR - SB222 Extends sunset on provision authorizing Department of Human Services to appear as party in juvenile court proceeding without appearance of Attorney General.

OR - SB772 Requires video transmissions of executive department and legislative department to be closed-captioned for access by hearing-impaired persons.

OR - SB449 Creates Office for Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Services in Department of Human Services.

OR - SB890 Establishes Task Force on Measures of Economic and Social Success.

OR - SB296 Repeals elderly rental assistance program, operative January 1, 2016.

OR - SB490 Establishes Task Force on Healthy Food for Low-Income Families.

OR - SB777 Directs Oregon 529 Savings Board to establish by rule qualified state ABLE Act program as described in federal Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014.

OR - SB465 Specifies duties and liabilities of community mental health program with respect to commitment proceedings initiated for individuals with mental illness.

OR - HB2234 Requires Oregon Health Authority and insurers offering health benefit plans that reimburse costs of physician services to reimburse community assessment center for child abuse medical assessment and related services.

OR - SB700 Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.

OR - SB307 Requires continuing care retirement communities to have written grievance procedure and procedure for resident to request to be assisted in activities of daily living by staff person of particular sex.

OR - SB503 Requires Department of Human Services to identify applicants for and recipients of assistance under temporary assistance for needy families program who are victims of sexual assault or at risk for being victims of sexual assault.

OR - HB2307 Prohibits mental health care professionals and social health professionals from practicing conversion therapy if recipient of conversion therapy is under 18 years of age.

OR - SB474 Allows certain nonprofit charitable corporations to own and operate dental clinics that serve children with special needs.

OR - HB2363 Requires treating physician to document in clinical record any seclusion of person alleged to have mental illness who is confined in hospital or nonhospital facility.

OR - SB234 Repeals requirement that Department of Corrections and other correctional facilities jointly promulgate rules authorizing purchase of products to be manufactured by Oregon Corrections Enterprises.

OR - HB2694 Allows regulated social worker employed by Department of Human Services to report suspected animal abuse or neglect involving animal or person social worker comes into contact with while acting as employee of department.

OR - SB225 Removes requirement for agency to send individual notice to each affected recipient of supplemental nutrition assistance or Women, Infants and Children Program when suspension or closure of grant of assistance is caused by change in benefit or standard by federal government and change affects all or significant portion of recipients.

OR - SB616 Requires Secretary of State to conduct investigation of Community Housing Trust Account, within Developmental Disabilities Community Housing Fund.

OR - SB617 Establishes Task Force on Housing for Persons with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities.

OR - HB2232 Directs Department of Human Services to appoint advisory committee to advise department regarding policies and procedures to coordinate statewide planning for delivery of services to runaway and homeless youth and their families.

OR - SB51 Extends sunset for tax credit for withdrawals from individual development accounts.

OR - HB2599 Requires utility that provides electric or natural gas service to residential customers to prepare report on utility's processes that mitigate, for nonpayment of delinquent accounts, termination of electric or natural gas service to certain residential customers under certain conditions.

OR - HB3222 Modifies provisions related to Land Conservation and Development Commission requirement that local government, state agency or special district bring comprehensive plan, land use regulations and limited land use decisions or other land use decisions into compliance with acknowledged plan or regulations upon good cause belief by commission of existence of particular circumstances.

OR - SB244 Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to use moneys in Housing Development and Guarantee Account for housing for persons with low or very low income.

OR - SB40 Extends sunset for tax credit for child with disability.

OR - HB3243 Permits funeral establishment to take custody of unclaimed body of indigent person.

OR - HB3494 Prohibits declawing or devocalizing of animal unless procedure is performed by licensed veterinarian under certain conditions.

OR - SB41 Extends sunset for tax credit for elderly or permanently and totally disabled.

OR - SB475 Provides that students in youth care center within detention facility are to receive educational services through Juvenile Detention Education Program.