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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 138
Ordered by the Senate February 10
Including Senate Amendments dated February 10
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. 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.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the centralized child abuse reporting system; amending ORS 418.190; and declaring an
emergency.
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.
SECTION 2.This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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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