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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 137
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Human Services)
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 tells ODHS to study staffing in certain programs that are regulated by the state.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study regulatory responses to violations of
staffing requirements in long term care facilities and other state-regulated programs. 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.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to staffing in state-regulated programs.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Human Services shall study regulatory responses to vi-
olations of staffing requirements in long term care facilities and other state-regulated pro-
grams. 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 health 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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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