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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 5514
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 Oregon Department of Administrative 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 creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for
certain biennial expenses.
Limits certain biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscella-
neous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the depart-
ment.
Limits biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds.
Limits biennial expenditures by the department for payment of operations, grants-in-aid, program
costs and purchased services from certain fees, moneys or other revenues collected or received by
thedepartment.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Early Learning and Care; and declar-
ing an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Department of Early Learning and Care, for
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, for the
following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$72,708,336
(2)Early learning programs...........$681,503,819
SECTION 2.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but ex-
cluding lottery funds, corporate activity tax funds transferred from the Early Learning Ac-
count by the Department of Education and federal funds, collected or received by the
Department of Early Learning and Care, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$7,543,134
(2)Early learning programs...........$13,028,890
SECTION 3.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from federal funds collected or received by the Department of Early Learning
and Care, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$56,748,257
(2)Early learning programs...........$215,712,669
SECTION 4.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
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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are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses for operations, grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services by the De-
partment of Early Learning and Care from corporate activity tax funds transferred from the
Early Learning Account by the Department of Education, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.................................$7,235,572
(2)Early learning programs...........$468,710,221
SECTION 5. 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
July 1, 2025.
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