Bill Text: OR HB3099 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 3099 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to linguistically appropriate care; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3099 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3099-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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                         House Bill 3099

Sponsored by Representative JOHNSON; Representative GREENLICK

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human
Services to adopt standards and conduct examinations to ensure
linguistic competence of health care facility and residential
facility direct care staff hired on or after January 1, 2014.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to linguistically appropriate care; and declaring an
  emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + Section 2 of this 2013 Act is added to and made
a part of ORS 441.015 to 441.087. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) The Oregon Health Authority and the
Department of Human Services shall adopt by rule standards for
the health care facilities within their respective jurisdictions
to ensure that each facility has a sufficient number of direct
care staff who are linguistically competent in each of the
primary languages spoken by the residents of the facility. The
standards must ensure that each resident has immediate access at
all times to a direct care staff person who is fluent in the
language spoken by the resident.
  (2) The authority and the department shall conduct, or shall
contract with an entity to conduct, examinations of direct care
staff to ensure the language proficiency of each staff person who
is counted toward meeting the standards adopted by the authority
and the department under this section. + }
  SECTION 3. { +  Section 4 of this 2013 Act is added to and made
a part of ORS 443.400 to 443.455. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + (1) The Oregon Health Authority and the
Department of Human Services shall adopt by rule standards for
the residential facilities within their respective jurisdictions
to ensure that each facility has a sufficient number of direct
care staff who are linguistically competent in each of the
primary languages spoken by the residents of the facility. The
standards must ensure that each resident has immediate access at
all times to a direct care staff person who is fluent in the
language spoken by the resident.
  (2) The authority and the department shall conduct, or shall
contract with an entity to conduct, examinations of direct care
staff to ensure the language proficiency of each staff person who

is counted toward meeting the standards adopted by the authority
and the department under this section. + }
  SECTION 5.  { + The examinations required by sections 2 and 4
of this 2013 Act apply to all direct care staff hired by a health
care facility or a residential facility on or after January 1,
2014. + }
  SECTION 6.  { + This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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