Oregon lawmakers contemplate new rules for health care mergers May 19 2021
A Lake Oswego lawmaker wants the country s most sweeping health care merger oversight. Hospitals say it goes too far.
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would give Oregon the most sweeping state oversight of health care mergers in the country.
But while supporters say House Bill 2362 would counter increased costs and curbs on care, opponents say it goes too far.
The system contemplated by chief sponsor Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Lake Oswego, is drawing support from pro-abortion and death-with-dignity groups as a response to one slice of the merger trend: the rapid growth of health care entities affiliated with the Catholic Church, which restrict care for women and transgender people.
May 19 2021
Legislature clears ballot measure championed by the late Mitch Greenlick for November 2022 on a party-line House vote.
Northwest Portland s Mitch Greenlick may achieve in death what he was unable to do during his 17 years in the Oregon House.
A vote in the House cleared the way for Oregon voters to decide in November 2022 whether health care should be considered a right in the Oregon Constitution. The House passed Senate Joint Resolution 12 on a 34-23 vote along party lines on Wednesday, May 19. The resolution does not require the governor s signature.
Greenlick, a Portland Democrat, was in his ninth and final term when he died a year ago at age 85. As leader or co-leader of the House Health Care Committee for more than six cycles, going back to 2007, he sponsored and the House passed similar resolutions four times. All of them died in the Senate, although his final attempt had reached the full Senate before the Legislature abruptly adjourned its 2020 regular se
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by Devon Green, VAHHS Vice President of Government Relations Have you ever done a hike with a false peak? You think you’ve reached the top only to realize there is more to climb. The end of the legislative session is in sight now that legislators have been assigned to a conference committee to hammer out the remaining differences between the House and the Senate on the budget bill, but with talk of a veto session and a possible October session to determine spending of federal funds, the view from mid-May could be more mountain.
Panel combines gun storage, narrower ban in public places
House changes still supported by advocates of regulation but opposed by firearms rights groups
A bill that combines storage requirements for firearms with a narrower ban on guns in some public places is headed for a vote of the Oregon House.
The House Rules Committee, on a party-line vote Friday, April 23, approved a revamped version of Senate Bill 554 and sent it to the full House. All four Democrats voted for it; all three Republicans against it.
The changes appear to have had no effect on group support or opposition to the bill, which the committee heard testimony on April 21 and 22. Advocates of firearms regulation still support it; advocates of gun rights still oppose it.