2023 meetings

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2023-2024 tentative MLAC meeting schedule (PDF)

MLAC bill review – 2023 legislative session (PDF)

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Dec. 7 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
• Minutes (PDF)
• SAIF workers’ compensation insurance fraud bill (PDF)
  

Nov. 2 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
  
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
  
• 2023-2024 MLAC work plan, updated 11/02/2023 (PDF)
• 2023 MLAC work plan list of topics (PDF)
  

Oct. 5 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (revised) (PDF)
  
• 2023 MLAC work plan list of topics (PDF)
• 2023-24 MLAC work plan, updated 09/07/2023 (PDF)
• OHSU presentation (PDF)
• WCB presentation (PDF)
  

Sept. 7 meeting

• Agenda (revised) (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
  
• Public comment: Last injurious exposure and older workers (PDF)
• MLAC guidelines for presenting legislation (final) (PDF)
• MLAC legislative guidelines video storyboard, version 2 (PDF)

Aug. 17 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
  
• MLAC legislation review guidelines (PDF)
• MLAC legislative guidelines video storyboard (PDF)
• 2023 MLAC work plan topics (PDF)

July 6 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• 2023 MLAC work plan Topics (PDF)
• Legislation Review Guidelines (PDF)

June 8 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• Return-to-Work Program data (PDF)

May 12 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• Workers’ Compensation Board quarterly litigation report (PDF)
• Managed Care Organization come along report (PDF)
• Proposed amendments to A-engrossed House Bill 3412 (PDF)
• Oregon Return-to-Work Programs (PDF)

March 31 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• HB 3412
  • -1 amendments (adopted by House Business and Labor Committee) (PDF)
  • -1 amendments (Engrossed HB 3412 Amendment Recommendation) (PDF)
• SB 418
  •  -4 amendments (PDF)

March 17 meeting

• Agenda (revised) (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• Follow up information on WBF from Sally Coen (PDF)
• SB 214 – regulatory streamlining
• SB 418 - paid time off to receive medical services related to worker’s compensable injury
• SB 418-2 amendments (PDF)
• SB 418 SAIF cost estimate (revised) (PDF)
• SB 418-2 WCD analysis (PDF)
• SB 418 average wage information WCD (PDF)
• SB 418 NCCI write-up (PDF)
• HB 3412 – physician associate authority (pending receipt of amendments)
  
• -1 amendments
  
• HB 3412-1 WCD analysis (PDF)
• HB 3467 – employer reporting of injuries
• HB 3541 – employer liability
• HB 3541 WCD analysis (PDF)
• Fuhrer v Avis documents (Multnomah County Circuit Court)
• Original Summons & Complaint (PDF)
• AVIS Defendants' Answer and Affirmative Defenses (PDF)
• First Amended Complaint (PDF)
• AVIS Defendants' Amended Answer
  (PDF)
• AVIS Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment
  (PDF)
• Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (PDF)
• Second Amended Complaint (PDF)
• AVIS Defendants' Answer to Second Amended Complaint (PDF)
• AVIS Defendants' Second Motion for Summary Judgment (PDF)
• Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (MSJ) 2
  
• Fuhrer - AVIS Defendants' Response to Plaintiff's Second Motion (PDF)
• Fuhrer - Third MSJ (PDF)
• Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendants' Third Motion for Summary (PDF)
• Order re defendant 2nd MSJ and plaintiff motion for partial summary judgment (PDF)
  

March 3 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• SB 418
  
• SB 418-1 amendments (PDF)
• SB 418-1 WCD analysis (PDF)
• HB 3412 – physician associate authority
  
• HB 3412 WCD analysis (PDF)
• HB 3467 – employer reporting of injuries
• HB 3471 – employment provisions in settlement agreements
  
• Workers' Benefit Fund update (revised) (PDF)
• WBF summary (PDF)
• AFL-CIO rule comparison onsite medical care (PDF)
• AFL-CIO data request WCD (PDF)
  

Feb. 17 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• LC 3731 Draft (PDF)
• HB 3150 (PDF)
• Oregon Chiropractic Association presentation with notes (PDF)

Feb. 3 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• SB 214
  
• WCD analysis SB 214 (PDF)
  
• SB 418
  
• SB 418 Written Testimony (PDF)

Jan. 19 meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Audio
  
• Minutes (PDF)
• Revised MLAC work plan (PDF)
• Northwest Workers’ Justice Project Worker Retaliation Letter (PDF)
• Workers’ Compensation Board Quarterly Report (PDF)
• LC 1486 (Oregon Chiropractic Association) (PDF)
• LC 1486 supporting information from Oregon Chiropractic Association (PDF)
• Oregon Chiropractic Association Workers Compensation Chiropractic Cost Effectiveness for Low Back Pain (PDF)
• LC 1486 WCD Bill Analysis (PDF)
• OCA Presentation (PDF)
• Dr. Rosner:
• Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines (PDF)
• Fables or Foibles (PDF)
• Synopsis of Shorter Disability/Return to Work Times With Chiropractic Care (PDF)
• Chiropractic Care for Workers With Low Back Pain (PDF)
  
• An Evaluation of Medical and Chiropractic Provider Utilization and Costs: Treating Injured Workers in North Carolina (PDF)
• Health Maintenance Care in Work-related Low Back Pain and Its Association With Disability Recurrence (PDF)
  
• A Comparison of Chiropractic, Medical and Osteopathic Care for Work-related Sprains and Strains (PDF)
• An Analysis of Florida Workers' Compensation Medical Claims for Back-related Injuries (PDF)