NCSA Opposition to Oregon HB 4088 — Criminalizing Disability Behaviors in Hospital Settings (February 2024)
NCSA Policy Director Jackie Kancir's February 2024 testimony opposing Oregon HB 4088, which would expose individuals with severe autism and IDD to felony assault charges for challenging behaviors during hospital care — arguing that criminalizing disability symptoms has no deterrent effect and that specialized units, not prosecution, are the answer.
NCSA Letter to Oregon: Urgent Need for 1135 Waiver to Pay Extreme Family Caregivers — May 2022
NCSA's May 2022 letter to Oregon state officials urging extension of the COVID-era 1135 waiver that allowed family members of children with severe disabilities to be paid as caregivers — documenting the extreme caregiving situations (diapering 200-pound adults, preventing rock ingestion, monitoring seizures) that go far beyond ordinary parenting.