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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2150
Ordered by the House April 15
Including House Amendments dated April 15
Sponsored by Representative SCHARF (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act tells DHS to adjust for inflation certain payments to I/DD providers.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
[Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study rate and wage recommendations. (Flesch Readability Score:
69.7).]
[Requires the Department of Human Services to study the recommendations from the rate and wage
study. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to health not later than September 15, 2026.]
[Sunsets on January 2, 2027.]
Requires the Department of Human Services to adjust for inflation payments made under
a contract with a provider agency for the provision of services to individuals with intellectual
or developmental disabilities.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to compensation of service providers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Community living support” includes attendant care, skills training and relief care.
(b) “Day support activities” means attendant care delivered during scheduled, structured
activities in a nonresidential setting that focuses on maintaining or enhancing the skills
needed by an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to engage in the
individual’scommunity.
(c) “Direct support professional” means an employee of a provider agency who provides
attendant care to individuals receiving employment services, supported living services, day
support activities, in-home or community living support services or services in a residential
training facility or residential training home.
(d) “Employment services” means individualized, evidence-based services provided to an
individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to assist the individual in choosing,
securing and retaining work in an integrated employment setting.
(e) “Provider agency” means an entity that provides:
(A) Services to individuals in residential training facilities or residential training homes;
(B) In-home services;
(C) Supported living services;
(D) Employment services;
(E) Day support activities; or
(F) Community living support.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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(f) “Residential training facility” and “residential training home” have the meanings
given those terms in ORS 443.400.
(g) “Supported living services” means services that provide an individual with an intel-
lectual or developmental disability the ability to live in the community where the individual
wants, with whom the individual wants, for as long as the individual desires.
(2) When the Department of Human Services enters into a contract with a provider
agency for the provision of services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabil-
ities by direct support professionals, the department shall adjust the payments made under
the contract for inflation as provided in subsection (3) of this section.
(3) No later than April 30 of each year, the department shall calculate the adjustment
of the payments described in subsection (2) of this section based on the percentage increase,
if any, from March of the preceding year to March of the year in which the calculation is
made in the U.S. City Average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (All Items)
as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor or
its successor.
(4) Any adjustment calculated under subsection (3) of this section shall take effect on
July 1 of the year in which the calculation is made.
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