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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2486
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Judiciary for Representative Jason Kropf)
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 as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act directs DHS to study how to simplify the provision of child welfare services in
this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study how to simplify the provision of child
welfare services in this state.Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees
of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to child welfare.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Human Services shall study how to simplify the provision
of child welfare services in this state.The department shall submit a report in the manner
provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim
committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than September
15, 2026.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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