OR SB1521 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: Passed on April 11 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-11 - Effective date, April 4, 2024.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: Passed on April 11 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-11 - Effective date, April 4, 2024.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers. The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. The Act makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool. The tool makes sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). [Digest: The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers.] [The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. Requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026.] [The Act changes the way that DHS makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool to make sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there.] [The Act requires that some people must be licensed to help children in DHS custody to stay out of temporary lodging. The Act says that those people do not have to be licensed until 1/1/25. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4).] Requires the Department of Human Services to contract with at least one organization by July 1, 2024, to provide enhanced supports to employers of personal support workers and describes the supports that must be provided by the organization. Specifies the minimum requirements for agencies to be endorsed by the department to provide agency with choice services and requires the department to contract with at least one organization to provide agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. Prohibits specified acts by agencies that employ staff to provide direct support professionals. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to hire one additional position for the authority's Medicaid [fraud] program integrity unit. Modifies the enforcement by the Department of Human Services of the requirements for residential care facilities to use acuity-based staffing tools to ensure sufficient staffing levels to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs at all times. [Requires that certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports for children in the custody of the department be licensed as child-caring agencies. Specifies that certain providers of care or services to children are not child-caring agencies. Delays licensing requirement for certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports to children until January 1, 2025. Permits the department until December 31, 2024, to continue contracting with certain providers of placement safety and supports even though they are unlicensed.] Extends deadline from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2027, for residential training homes and adult foster homes licensed before July 1, 2026, to install automatic sprinkler systems. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Title
Relating to care for vulnerable individuals; declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
| No sponsor information available at this time. |
Roll Calls
2024-03-07 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 35 N: 21 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-07 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 17 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) (Y: 15 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. Refer to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng) (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-07 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 17 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng bill. (Printed B-Eng.) (Y: 15 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-14 - Senate - Senate Committee Do pass with amendments. Refer to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng) (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-11 | Senate | Effective date, April 4, 2024. |
| 2024-04-11 | Senate | Chapter 92, 2024 Laws. |
| 2024-04-04 | Senate | Governor signed. |
| 2024-03-13 | House | Speaker signed. |
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | President signed. |
| 2024-03-07 | House | Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Reynolds. Passed. Ayes, 35; Nays, 21--Boice, Breese-Iverson, Cate, Conrad, Diehl, Elmer, Goodwin, Helfrich, Hieb, Levy B, Lewis, Mannix, McIntire, Osborne, Owens, Reschke, Scharf, Stout, Wallan, Wright, Yunker; Excused, 4--Boshart Davis, Cramer, Javadi, Ruiz. |
| 2024-03-07 | House | Second reading. |
| 2024-03-07 | House | Recommendation: Do pass. |
| 2024-03-07 | House | Referred to Ways and Means. |
| 2024-03-07 | House | First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | Patterson declared potential conflict of interest. |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Gelser Blouin. Passed. Ayes, 17; Nays, 11--Anderson, Bonham, Boquist, Findley, Girod, Hansell, Hayden, Knopp, Linthicum, Robinson, Smith DB; Excused, 2--Thatcher, Weber. |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | Second reading. |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) |
| 2024-03-06 | Senate | Returned to Full Committee. |
| 2024-03-06 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2024-03-06 | Senate | Public Hearing and Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Assigned to Subcommittee On Capital Construction. |
| 2024-02-19 | Senate | Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. |
| 2024-02-19 | Senate | Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.) |
| 2024-02-14 | Senate | Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-12 | Senate | Public Hearing and Work Session held. |
| 2024-02-07 | Senate | Public Hearing held. |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Referred to Human Services, then Ways and Means. |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. |
