Oregon Senator Deb Patterson [D] | Senate

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
OR	SB1578	Pass	The Act directs the OHA to set up a health care interpreter management system. The Act requires the OHA to contract with a nonprofit entity to establish a recruitment and retention program. The Act sets out certain requirements for the nonprofit. The... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Effective date, June 6, 2024.
OR	SB1561	Pass	This Act creates a council and funds to distribute and invest money from a legal settlement. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council. Directs the council to establish programs to distribute moneys from the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, April 4, 2024.
OR	SB1595	Pass	The Act increases some amounts that are protected from debt collectors. The Act changes some laws about bad debt collection methods. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Increases certain exemptions from garnishment and execution. Modifies provisions re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, April 4, 2024.
OR	SB1532	Pass	Directs ODE to make a plan for the education of students who are immigrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide education plan for students who are asylum seekers, refugees or an... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1557	Pass	The Act requires the OHA to take certain steps to make sure that certain people who are under 21 years of age receive the services and supports that they qualify for. The Act requires the OHA and DHS to make sure that children and youth who are serve... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, April 4, 2024.
OR	SB1503	Pass	The Act makes a task force on community safety and suicide prevention. The Act provides money for research on those topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Establishes the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention and requires t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, June 6, 2024.
OR	SB1585	Pass	The Act requires DHS to set up a task force and come up with a plan for a program that allows people who receive SNAP aid to be able to use the aid to buy hot foods and hot foods that are ready to eat. The Act says who must be on the task force. The ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, June 6, 2024.
OR	SB1596	Pass	Requires someone that makes electronic items for consumers to give on fair terms to those who look at, maintain or fix the items what they need to maintain or fix the items. Fair terms means, in part, giving independent people what they need on the s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1581	Pass	The Act makes an electric company report each year on the steps taken or being taken to be part of an energy market. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires an investor-owned utility that sells more than two million megawatt hours of electricity i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1571	Pass	The Act would require a disclosure of the use of AI or other similar technology in campaign ads. The Act would create a way to enforce the requirement and to impose a fine for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a disclosure of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024.
OR	SB1533	Pass	Tells the SOS to translate the voters' pamphlet into the 10 most common languages used in each county. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Increases, from 5 to 10, the number of the most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1580	Pass	The Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). [Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its worke... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024.
OR	SB1553	Pass	The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1502	Pass	Requires most public schools and college boards to video record their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private or if a school district is very small. (Flesch Readab... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1587	Pass	The Act protects a children's advocacy center from legal action for looking into the abuse of a child if a nationwide group says that the center meets certain standards. The Act protects the center's employees, too. The Act does not protect a center ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024.
OR	SB1567	Pass	The Act tells an agency to take actions on water in the Walla Walla River Basin. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to the Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-25 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	SCR209	Pass	Honors the life and memory of Joanne Russell Verger. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). In memoriam: Joanne Russell Verger, 1930-2023. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-21 Filed With Secretary of State.
OR	SB1572	Fail	The Act requires ODOT to study extending the WES commuter rail line to Salem. The Act creates an advisory committee to aid ODOT in its study. Requires ODOT to partner with the advisory committee as part of the process of conducting the study. Tells O... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1583	Fail	This Act does not allow a board or a person to choose or not choose materials that are used in a school when the choice is discrimination. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.5). Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1569	Fail	The Act requires the Oregon Health Plan to pay for certain health services for people with mental deficits. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires medical assistance reimbursement of cognitive assessment and care planning for recipients who exper... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1592	Fail	Gives money to a state agency to give to some colleges to help train more mental health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1560	Fail	The Act creates the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release. The Act directs the task force to submit a report to the legislature by December 31, 2024. The Act takes effect when it is signed by the Governor. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). [Dig... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1577	Fail	The Act tells LPRO to study more options for AVR and to tell the Legislature what they found out before the 2027 session. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act allows people to register to vote when they apply for college. The Act tells ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1570	Fail	The Act gives money to the YMCA to be used for a social services resource center. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 86.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for distribution to the Family YMCA of Marion ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1586	Fail	The Act changes the state law that prohibits housing discrimination. The Act removes an exemption from the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Removes from state law an exception that allowed for residential property owners to engage in housing di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1559	Fail	This Act changes the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. The Act changes the term "global warming" to "climate change" in some laws. The Act declares an emergency and takes effect when it passes. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.4). Modifi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1594	Fail	The Act creates the Task Force on Improving the Safety of Behavioral Health Workers. The Act says who must be on the task force and the duties of the task force. The Act creates a program in which OHA pays persons who run places that provide mental h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1582	Fail	The Act funds cultural groups in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.