(1) A care facility and the staff of the facility may not take any of the following actions based in whole or in part on a resident’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or human immunodeficiency virus status:

(a) Deny admission to a care facility, transfer or refuse to transfer a resident within a facility or to another facility or discharge or evict a resident from a facility;

(b) Deny a request by a resident to choose the resident’s roommate, when a resident is sharing a room;

(c) If rooms are assigned by gender, assign, reassign or refuse to assign a room to a transgender or other LGBTQIA2S+ resident other than in accordance with the resident’s gender identity, unless at the request of the resident or if required by federal law;

(d) Prohibit a resident from using, or harass a resident who seeks to use or does use, a restroom that is available to other individuals of the same gender identity as the resident, regardless of whether the resident is making a gender transition, has taken or is taking hormones, has undergone gender affirmation surgery or presents as gender nonconforming;

(e) Repeatedly and willfully refuse to use a resident’s chosen name or pronouns after being reasonably informed of the resident’s chosen name or pronouns;

(f) Deny a resident the right to wear or be dressed in clothing, accessories or cosmetics, or to engage in grooming practices, that are permitted to any other resident;

(g) Restrict a resident’s right to associate with other residents or with visitors, including the resident’s right to consensual sexual relations or to display physical affection, unless the restriction is uniformly applied to all residents in a nondiscriminatory manner;

(h) Deny or restrict medical or nonmedical care that is appropriate to a resident’s organs and bodily needs, or provide medical or nonmedical care that, to a similarly situated, reasonable person, unduly demeans the resident’s dignity or causes avoidable discomfort;

(i) Fail to accept a resident’s verbal or written attestation of the resident’s gender identity or require a resident to provide proof of the resident’s gender identity using any form of identification;

(j) Fail to take reasonable actions, within the care facility’s control, to prevent discrimination or harassment when the facility knows or should have known about the discrimination or harassment; or

(k) Refuse or willfully fail to provide any service, care or reasonable accommodation to a resident or an applicant for services or care.

(2) A care facility shall include in its current nondiscrimination policy and in its written materials providing notice of resident rights pursuant to ORS § 441.605, and in all places and on all materials where that policy or those written materials are posted, the following notice:

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(Name of care facility) does not discriminate and does not permit discrimination, including but not limited to bullying, abuse or harassment, based on an individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or human immunodeficiency virus status, or based on an individual’s association with another individual on account of the other individual’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or human immunodeficiency virus status. If you believe you have experienced this kind of discrimination, you may file a complaint with the Department of Human Services at _____ (provide current contact information).

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[1981 c.534 § 5; 2013 c.717 § 4; renumbered 441.407 in 2015]