77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . 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. + } ----------