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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 138
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 gives DHS the option to make a website for child abuse reporting but does not
require DHS to do so. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
Modifies the centralized child abuse reporting system requirements to allow, but not require, the
Department of Human Services to include a website for electronic reports of suspected child abuse.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the centralized child abuse reporting system; amending ORS 418.190.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 418.190 is amended to read:
418.190. (1) As used in this section, “abuse reporting hotline” means a statewide toll-free tele-
phone number operated by the Department of Human Services for reporting suspected abuse.
(2) The department shall develop and maintain a centralized child abuse reporting system. The
system must include [the] an abuse reporting hotline for oral reports of suspected abuse and [a]
may include a website for electronic reports of suspected child abuse.
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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