| Relates to an individual's performance of services for an employer. | House | 3/13/2024 | HB 4005 | Failed | 2024 |
| Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employment without losing temporary total disability benefits. | Senate | 3/11/2024 | SB 1584 | Failed | 2024 |
| In part, makes changes to laws about prescription drugs and some health care providers; says the Oregon State Hospital does not have to do certain things about staffing; changes the term "physician assistant" to "physician associate"; specifies that flavoring of a prescription drug is not compounding. | House | 3/7/2024 | HB 4010 | Passed Both Chambers | 2024 |
| Makes it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers comp premium. Provides that an employer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the employer knowingly submits a false payroll report with the intent to decrease the employer’s premium for workers compensation insurance. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days’ imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. | Senate | 3/6/2024 | SB 1580 | Passed Both Chambers | 2024 |
| Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to make offer to negotiate settlement agreement conditional upon worker also entering into agreement that includes no-rehire provision. Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to make offer for settlement agreement conditional upon worker also entering into agreement that includes no-rehire provision unless certain criteria are met. Specifies actions that would not constitute violation. Makes violation enforceable by Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries or by civil action. | House | 8/1/2023 | HB 3471 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Removes limits on duration of medical service and number of visits and certain areas of practice for chiropractic physicians serving as attending physicians in workers compensation claims. | House | 6/30/2023 | HB 3150 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study trends in reimbursement paid to specified health care providers by insurers and third party administrators and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2024. | House | 6/30/2023 | HB 2432 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requires employer to report to insurer any worksite accident or injury for which injured worker receives onsite treatment. | House | 6/30/2023 | HB 3467 | Failed | 2023 |
| Extends exemption of insured employer from liability outside workers compensation law to employer’s parent company and related entities of employer under same parent company. | House | 6/30/2023 | HB 3541 | Failed | 2023 |
| Expands types of employers for purposes of occupational disease presumptions of certain employees. | House | 6/30/2023 | HB 3548 | Failed | 2023 |
| Updates reporting requirements for worker leasing companies providing workers compensation coverage to client employers. | Senate | 6/28/2023 | SB 213 | Failed | 2023 |
| Conforms definition of “average weekly wage” as used in death benefits section to definition used generally in ORS chapter 656. Authorizes payment from Workers Benefit Fund of compensation due beneficiaries from defaulting insurer. | Senate | 6/28/2023 | SB 214 | Failed | 2023 |
| Removes minimum time period that injured worker must be absent from work for compensable medical services before injured worker may receive temporary disability benefits for such absence. Provides that notice required before insurer or self-insured employer may end temporary disability benefits does not apply to benefits paid for such absence. | Senate | 6/5/2023 | SB 418 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Authorizes physician assistants to provide same level of service as nurse practitioners for workers compensation claims in managed care organization setting; increases from 60 days to 180 days period beginning on first visit on initial claim that physician assistant may be primarily responsible for treatment of workers compensable injury. | House | 5/17/2023 | HB 3412 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Relates to authorization of temporary disability, claim closure and overpayments of compensation. | House | 3/25/2022 | HB 4138 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services, Employment Department and Oregon Health Authority to enter into intergovernmental agreement for sharing of information to enable Department of Consumer and Business Services to inform beneficiaries of their rights to workers compensation death benefits; restricts Oregon Health Authority to sharing information regarding deaths from COVID-19 associated with workplace outbreaks published by authority. | Senate | 3/25/2022 | SB 1585 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Authorizes the Public Heath Director of the Oregon Health Authority to direct and deploy volunteer emergency health care providers during health care emergency; in part, requires the Oregon Health Authority to provide workers compensation coverage for volunteer emergency health care providers. | Senate | 3/24/2022 | SB 1529 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Relates to beneficiaries; expands scope of retaliation provision for workers compensation benefits; amends definitions of "beneficiary," "child" and "dependent" and replaces term "invalid" with "incapacitated." | House | 3/3/2022 | HB 4086 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters. Requires Workers Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee to review material published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health related to cancers associated with nonvolunteer firefighters. | House | 3/3/2022 | HB 4113 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Relates to health care interpreters. | House | 7/15/2021 | HB 2359 | Enacted | 2021 |
| Changes definitions of “employer” and “worker” for purposes of workers compensation law. Changes total labor cost at which employment is casual from $500 to $1,000. | House | 6/15/2021 | HB 3188 | Enacted | 2021 |
| Relates to workers compensation for occupational diseases that certain workers suffer. | House | 6/2/2021 | HB 2915 | Enacted | 2021 |
| Relates to methods for reporting information related to workers compensation claims. | House | 5/25/2021 | HB 2040 | Enacted | 2021 |
| Provides that insurer and self-insured employer may keep records of workers compensation claims at location outside the state if insurer or self-insured employer makes records available to Department of Consumer and Business Services at location inside the state; provides that person that awards contract to another person is not responsible for providing workers compensation insurance coverage for individuals who perform labor under contract if other person is licensed as construction contractor or landscape contracting business. | House | 5/19/2021 | HB 2039 | Enacted | 2021 |
| In part, expands definition of "qualified emergency service volunteer" who qualifies for indemnification under Oregon Tort Claims Act and workers compensation benefits. | Senate | 3/24/2021 | SB 288 | In Joint Committee | 2021 |
| Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workers compensation claims processing and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
| Senate | 3/4/2021 | SB 801 | In Senate Committee | 2021 |
| Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workers compensation for secondary effects of infection by SARS-CoV-2 or diagnosis with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022. | Senate | 3/4/2021 | SB 802 | In Senate Committee | 2021 |
| Imposes requirement to procure and maintain workers compensation insurance on independent contractor that is exempt from licensing by Construction Contractors Board and is residential contractor; permits board to revoke, suspend or refuse to issue or reissue contractor's license to licensee if licensee assists or contracts with person that licensee reasonably should have known was unlicensed, and unlicensed person performs work as contractor, or if licensee knowingly assists or contracts with unlicensed person and person performs work as contractor; specifies sanctions that board may impose on person for assisting or contracting with unlicensed other person that performs work as contractor. | House | 2/10/2021 | HB 3081 | In House Committee | 2021 |
| Adds exposure to or infection by SARS-CoV-2 to definition of occupational disease for purposes of workers compensation; specifies presumptions as to compensability for occupational disease or occupational injury that apply to subject worker's death, disability, impairment of health, loss of work time and expenses of medical treatment or services, including diagnostic or preventive medical treatment or services, as result of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. | House | 1/27/2021 | HB 3025 | In House Committee | 2021 |
| In part, adds exposure to or infection by SARS-CoV-2 to definition of occupational disease for purposes of workers compensation; specifies presumptions as to compensability for occupational disease or occupational injury that apply to subject worker's death, disability, impairment of health, loss of work time and expenses of medical treatment or services, including diagnostic or preventive medical treatment or services, as result of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. | Senate | 1/20/2021 | SB 488 | In Senate Committee | 2021 |
| Transfers responsibility for provision of workers compensation coverage to qualified emergency service volunteer from Office of Emergency Management to public body under whose direction volunteer is acting. | House | 1/20/2021 | HB 2118 | In House Committee | 2021 |
| Defines "covered employee" as including employees of Department of Human Services who work in stabilization and crisis unit for purposes of specifying certain presumptions as to compensability of covered employee's claim of benefits under workers compensation law for death, disability or impairment of health. | Senate | 1/20/2021 | SB 388 | In Senate Committee | 2021 |
| Removes restriction on authorization of retroactive temporary disability compensation; requires written notice of suspension of temporary disability compensation no later than date on which compensation would otherwise have been payable; prohibits insurer or self-insured employer from taking credit or offset against any workers' compensation benefits or payments due to worker that were paid more than two years before credit or offset would be taken or in amount greater than $5,000 for any claim of worker with insurer or self-insured employer; provides exception for situations involving fraud. | Senate | 1/20/2021 | SB 489 | In Senate Committee | 2021 |
| Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters and police officers by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment. | House | 2/17/2020 | HB 4062 | In Senate Committee | |
| Removes exemption of sole proprietor licensed as construction contractor from requirement to have workers compensation insurance. | House | 2/4/2020 | HB 4022 | In House Committee | |
| In part, requires companies providing health care interpreters to register with authority and meet certain requirements. Makes health care interpreters subject workers for purposes of workers compensation benefits. | House | 2/4/2020 | HB 4115 | In House Committee | |