An Oregon House bill passed Monday that allows pharmacists to prescribe, dispense, and administer both PrEP and PEP. The new bill clarifies that Oregon pharmacists are legally allowed to conduct HIV tests. It now goes to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk to sign…
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The Oregon House on Monday re-passed House Bill 2958 B, which allows pharmacists to prescribe, dispense, and administer both pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis. Known as PrEP and PEP, the two drugs prevent HIV infection…
Bill Allowing Over-the-Counter HIV Prevention Drugs Goes to Governor’s Desk Read More »
Dacia Grayber, a firefighter and paramedic who recently entered the state Legislature in January of this year, said she joined the earthquake commission right after H.B. 3309 passed…
Pharmacists would get reimbursed from insurers for prescribing and administering HIV prevention drugs under a bill in the Oregon Legislature…
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Rep. Dacia Grayber, a firefighter and paramedic, stood in support of the bill and described coming on the scene of shootings. Her first was the fatal accidental shooting of a child by a friend. They had found a gun under a bed while playing…
After Emotional Statements, Oregon House Passes Gun Bill Requiring Safe Storage Read More »
How fast can you read through a 170-page bill? That very question is what has Oregon House Democrats on edge as the pandemic ignites tensions over workplace safety…
Bill Readings in the Oregon Legislature Become Battleground for More Partisan Gridlock Read More »
Depending on your perspective on politics, the toll the pandemic has taken on our elected officials’ ability to communicate directly with the populace is either the silveriest of linings or another piercing loss in a year that already had way too many of them…
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State Rep. Dacia Grayber, D-Tigard, likened cutting that work to President Donald Trump’s administration disbanding pandemic response staffers in 2018, ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Gov. Kate Brown’s Proposal to Axe Oregon Hazard Mapping Agency Unlikely to Fly Read More »
This was the year Portland ran out of superlatives. We also ran out of toilet paper. It was that kind of year. But 2020 was primarily a time when words didn’t do justice to the extreme nature of events…
A firefighter and paramedic who has been on the front lines of both pandemic and forest fires, Dacia Grayber, 45, has faced head on the crises of this year…
Willamette Weekly’s November 2020 Endorsements for Oregon House Read More »
