Bill Text: OR SB170 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a task force on educator health benefits; appropriating money.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB170 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-SB170-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 2610

                         Senate Bill 170

Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  Health Care, Human Services and Rural Health Policy)

                             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.

  Creates Task Force on Educator Health Benefits. Requires task
force to review benefit plans provided through Oregon Educators
Benefit Board, analyze benefits provided by plans, determine if
provision of plans resulted in savings to state and report to
legislative interim committee no later than June 1, 2014.
  Continuously appropriates moneys to task force for purposes of
carrying out duties of task force.
  Sunsets task force on June 30, 2014.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a task force on educator health benefits; and
  appropriating money.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) There is created the Task Force on Educator
Health Benefits consisting of six members appointed as follows:
  (a) The President of the Senate shall appoint one member from
among members of the Senate.
  (b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
one member from among members of the House of Representatives.
  (c) The Governor shall appoint four members as follows:
  (A) One member who is a nonmanagement district employee and who
is in a labor organization representing district employees;
  (B) Two members who are not eligible to participate in a
benefit plan provided under ORS 243.860 to 243.886 and who have
expertise in health insurance or in employee benefit plan design
or administration; and
  (C) One member who is a district management employee.
  (2) The task force shall review the benefit plans provided
through the Oregon Educators Benefit Board, analyze the benefits
provided by and the administration of the benefit plans and
determine whether the enactment of ORS 243.860 to 243.886 has
resulted in cost savings to the state.
  (3) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes a
quorum for the transaction of business.
  (4) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the members of the task force.

  (5) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson.
  (6) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing
authority shall make an appointment to become immediately
effective.
  (7) The task force shall meet at times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of
the task force.
  (8) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operation
of the task force.
  (9) The task force shall submit a report, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to an interim committee related
to education or public employment, as appropriate, no later than
June 1, 2014.
  (10) The task force shall use the services of permanent
legislative staff to the greatest extent practicable.
  (11) Members of the task force who are not members of the
Legislative Assembly are not entitled to compensation, but may be
reimbursed for actual and necessary travel and other expenses
incurred by them in the performance of their official duties in
the manner and amounts provided for in ORS 292.495. Claims for
expenses incurred in performing functions of the task force shall
be paid out of funds appropriated to the Legislative Assembly for
that purpose.
  (12) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS
174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performance
of its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to
confidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as the
members of the task force consider necessary to perform their
duties.
  (13) The Legislative Administrator may accept, on behalf of the
task force, contributions of moneys and assistance from the
United States Government or its agencies or from any other
source, public or private, and agree to conditions placed on the
moneys not inconsistent with the duties of the task force.
  (14) All moneys received by the Legislative Administrator under
subsection (13) of this section shall be paid into the State
Treasury and deposited in the General Fund to the credit of the
task force. The moneys are continuously appropriated to the task
force for the purposes of carrying out the duties of the task
force.
  (15) As used in this section, 'district' has the meaning given
that term in ORS 243.860. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2013 Act is repealed on June
30, 2014. + }
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