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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 64
Sponsored by Senator HAYDEN (Presession filed.)
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 seek a waiver of certain federal SNAP requirements. (Flesch
Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires the Department of Human Services to seek a waiver of federal requirements in the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in order to allow recipients of supplemental nutrition
assistance to receive advance installment payments of the tax credit for dependent care expenses.
Sunsets January 2, 2031.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to payment of dependent care tax credits in installments; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) No later than 90 days after the effective date of this 2025 Act, the De-
partment of Human Services shall submit to the United States Department of Agriculture a
request for approval to waive the requirements of 7 U.S.C. 2014(d)(18) in order to exclude
monthly distributions of an advance payment of the tax credit available for dependent care
under ORS 315.264 from consideration in determining eligibility for supplemental nutrition
assistance.
(2) The department shall report the status of the request to the Legislative Assembly no
later than September 15, 2026, and annually thereafter until September 15 following the date
on which the United States Department of Agriculture approves or denies the request for
waiver.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2031.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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