Use the links below to find measures introduced by others in the Senate.
To see if a legislative staff measure summary, fiscal impact statement or revenue impact statement
has been completed for a measure, click here 2011
Session Staff Measure Summaries, then enter the bill number. Please note that staff summaries and impact statements may not be available for all measures.
This is not a complete list of bills relating to insurance. Inclusion on
this list indicates neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the Insurance
Division.
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Authorizes the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt uniform standards for
health care financial and administrative transactions.
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Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish Oregon Health Insurance Exchange as a public
corporation to be governed by board of directors.
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Requires insurance companies to offer a basic health plan with a minimum level of benefits
(bronze coverage) consistent with federal health reform; establishes requirements for catastrophic
health plans, which will be available to young adults as part of federal health care reform.
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Requires health benefit plan to cover services provided by a naturopath if the plan would
cover the same services provided by a physician.
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Requires insurers to make payments for hospital, nursing, medical or surgical services covered
under health insurance policy directly to providers of health services.
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Establishes a children's reinsurance program using OMIP assessment to spread the risk of
enrolling high-risk children in the commercial individual market.
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Adds new definitions and requirements for health insurance coverage of autism spectrum disorders.
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Prohibits health insurer from demanding refund of claim payment made to health care provider
more than six months after date of payment.
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Exempts accident-only insurance policies from payment of assessment on gross amount of premiums.
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Imposes requirements for contracts between contracting entities and third parties for access
to health care service of providers.
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Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) to determine if proposed premium
rates for small business and individual health benefit plans satisfy specified criteria.
Allows person to contest rate approval, and requires DCBS to pay attorney fees and expenses
of petitioner who prevails on judicial review.
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Requires health insurers and third-party administrators to use standard prior authorization
form, as prescribed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
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Prohibits insurers from denying cancer treatment provided by specified medical facilities
on basis that treatment is experimental or investigational. Requires health insurance policies
to list medical procedures that are excluded from coverage.
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Imposes restrictions on health benefit plan that covers pharmacy services or prescription
drugs.
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Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with qualified experts
to perform independent analyses of health insurance rate filings in specified cases.
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Authorizes the Department of Consumer and Business Services to conduct public hearings on
insurance company rate requests. Makes state attorney general party to hearing.
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Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to provide detailed rationale
for approval of any health insurance rate increase and post information to the department's
website.
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Prohibits health benefit plan from conditioning coverage of diabetes treatment that is prescribed
by health care provider on failure of another therapy or treatment.
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Directs Oregon Health Authority to approve one or more pilot projects involving dental health;
allows person not licensed to practice dentistry or dental hygiene to practice in approved
pilot project.
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Requires health benefit plan to cover telemedical health services for treatment of diabetes
if health service is otherwise covered by the plan.
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Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish payment standards for hospital, ambulatory surgical center and certain health care professional services.
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Establishes Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Plan, operated by Oregon Health Authority
according to policies established by Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Board. Provides comprehensive health care coverage to all individuals residing or working in Oregon.
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Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for providing health care coverage for all Oregonians, including recommendations for constitutionally-dedicated sales tax, assumptions regarding private sector health care delivery options and elimination of need of employers to provide health insurance coverage to employees, and options to eliminate plan deductibles for persons below certain levels of federal poverty guidelines.
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Requires insurer to defend claim of malpractice if claim is based on disclosure of serious medical error by health practitioner to patient or patient's family.
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Raises the threshold over which PIP insurers may recover for their payments on PIP claims to include all damages, not just "economic" damages; extends the minimum timeframe for collection of PIP benefits by the injured party from one year to two years.
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Extends reinsurance program for medical professional liability insurance policies provided by State Accident Insurance Fund for one year.
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Requires title insurers to retain and produce upon request documents used in closing residential mortgage transactions.
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Requires insurers using credit information involving personal insurance policies (homeowners or auto, for example) to rerate a policy at the request of the consumer even if credit information was not used by insurer to initially price the policy.
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Sets standards for personal vehicle sharing programs; requires such programs to provide motor vehicle liability insurance for periods when vehicle is in use by program.
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Requires person to have vehicle appraiser certificate to appraise motor vehicle damage for insurance purposes.
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Establishes program to provide subsidies for medical professional liability insurance premiums for health practitioners in underserved rural communities.
March 2, 2011 – Testimony, Teresa Miller
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Establishes deadlines for public bodies to respond to public records requests; limits fees public bodies may charge for responding to public records requests.
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Creates the crime of insurance fraud with potential felony and misdemeanor penalties, depending on the amount involved.
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Eliminates requirement that the Department of Consumer and Business Services examine rating organization at least once every five years.
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Requires insurer offering retail value coverage in policy for insured item to pay retail value if valid claim is filed by the insured.
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Requires a State Insurance Arbitration Board to conduct any binding arbitration required by insurance policies to settle claim disputes.
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Includes insurance in definition of real estate, goods or services under the Unlawful Trade
Practices Act; makes unfair claim settlement practices unlawful trade practice.
March 23, 2011 – Teresa Miller letter
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Adopts National Association of Insurance Commissioners adjuster licensing model legislation, with modifications.
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Authorizes captive insurers in this state; sets licensing and other standards for captive insurers; exempts captive insurers from provisions of Insurance Code unless specified.
