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by Devon Green, Vice President of Government Relations, VAHHS Last week, the House Government Operations Committee took testimony on S.48. The Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact is an important health care workforce initiative and a key recommendation from the Rural Health Services Task Force 2020 Report. Under the compact, nurses can apply for a license in one compact state and have access to all the other compact states without applying for separate licenses, which is an appealing option for new graduates. Maine and New Hampshire are currently compact states and New York and Massachusetts have bills pending in the legislature.
Oregon bill to give OHA control over mergers and acquisitions passes out of committee Patrick Jones | Apr 19, 2021
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House Bill 2362 recently passed out of the House Health Care Committee on a party line vote. The bill would require health care providers and hospitals to obtain permission from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) before any merger, acquisition or affiliation transactions.
The bill also creates an advisory board for the OHA to help determine the usefulness and validity of the merger. No more than one-third of the board’s members may be representatives of health care providers and hospitals. This allows for the community, those who it mainly affects, to have a voice on these transactions.
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Leonine Public Affairs This week Governor Phil Scott announced his plan to reopen the state and lift the most significant restrictions that have been in place since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Vermont. The Vermont Forward Plan aims to lift gathering, distancing and masking requirements by July 4, although social distancing and masking will continue to be encouraged. Beginning on April 9 the plan allows for unvaccinated visitors to enter the state without quarantine if they’ve had a negative test within three days prior to their arrival. On June 1, unvaccinated visitors may enter the state with no quarantine or testing requirements. Universal guidance for business operations will be adopted between mid-April and July 4, after which universal guidance will be recommended for all sectors. The plan anticipates 60 to 70 percent of Vermonters will have received one dose of the vaccine by June.
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Gun storage is a good idea. It not just protects your guns from theft, it also protects any potentially curious hands that might be floating around your house.
Few people think a good gun safe is a bad investment, after all.
What we tend to object to, though, is being told not just to store our guns, but how we should store them. The mandatory storage laws–often termed “safe storage,” despite there being nothing safe about them–are an anathema to our Second Amendment rights.
Another gun regulation bill is headed for a legislative debate and vote, this time in the Oregon House.
Gun storage requirement heads for vote in Oregon House
Bill emerges on a party-line vote from the Health Care Committee; violations would carry fines.
Another gun regulation bill is headed for a legislative debate and vote, this time in the Oregon House.
House Bill 2510, approved Tuesday, March 30, by the House Health Care Committee, would require the storage of firearms with trigger or cable locks, in a locked container or in a gun room. An offense is a Class C violation, which carries a maximum fine of $500, unless someone under age 18 obtains access, in which case it is a Class A violation with a maximum fine of $2,000. No jail time is imposed for violations.