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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 740
Sponsored by Senators GELSER BLOUIN, WEBER; Senator REYNOLDS (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 directs DHS to set up a grant program for people who had certain resources
seized while in the care or custody of DHS. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1).
Directs the Department of Human Services to establish and administer the Youth Support and
Repayment Grant Program to provide financial support to specified persons from whom, while in the
care or custody of the department, resources to which the persons were entitled were seized and
used to pay for certain services provided.
Sunsets the grant program on later of the date the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund
is depleted or January 2, 2055.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to persons from whom assets were seized by the state when the persons were under 21
years of age; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Department of Human Services shall establish and administer the
Youth Support and Repayment Grant Program as described in this section.
(2) No later than September 15, 2026, the department shall:
(a) Identify each person from whom, during the period of time beginning January 1, 1998,
and ending on the effective date of this 2025 Act, while the person was under 21 years of age
and in the care or custody of the department, the state seized Social Security benefits, death
benefits, survivor benefits, crime victim impact payments or any other benefits or resources
intended for the person and used the seized funds or resources to pay for services that were
provided to the person and that the person would otherwise have been entitled to or eligible
for through any state or federal agency or public or private program.
(b) Send each person identified in paragraph (a) of this subsection notification of the
following:
(A) That they were impacted by the state’s seizure of funds;
(B) How to obtain more information regarding which funds were seized, when the seizure
occurred and the total value of the funds that were seized;
(C) That the person may be eligible to participate in the Youth Support and Repayment
Grant Program; and
(D) Instructions for submitting an application to the program.
(3) Using funds in the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund established in section
2 of this 2025 Act, the department shall award grants to persons described in subsection
(2)(a) of this section.
(4) The department shall by rule establish the application process for the grant program.
(5) Grant recipients may make multiple applications for grants. The cumulative value of
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.
LC 1497 SB740
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grants awarded to a specific grant recipient may not exceed 125 percent of the total funds
seized by the state for services provided to the person while in the care or custody of the
department.
(6) Grants may be awarded under this section for:
(a) Services and expenses to support the grant recipient’s success in completing high
school or post-secondary education, including tutoring, summer courses or other similar
services, and for activities fees, supplies and equipment for extracurricular activities, when
no other funding is available to the recipient for those expenses.
(b) Post-secondary education and training, including books, tuition, fees, equipment, ap-
plications and placement exams not covered through other programs for which the recipient
is eligible.
(c) Housing, including a down payment for a house.
(d) Training, including training based on a peer support model, related to financial liter-
acy, home ownership, parenting, safe relationships and other subjects related to successful
independent living.
(e) One-time purchases of essential household supplies, including furniture, kitchen
equipment, linens and cleaning supplies.
(f) Medical, dental and vision services and supplies not otherwise covered by insurance,
including comprehensive reproductive health services.
(g) Child care for the recipient’s minor child.
(h) Start up costs for a business.
(i) Transportation, including the purchase of a reliable vehicle or bicycle, to work,
training or affordable housing.
(j) Mental health services and treatment when those services and treatment are volun-
tary, not otherwise covered by insurance and selected by the recipient.
(k) Travel for education purposes.
(L) Other purposes, determined by the department by rule, designed to further the suc-
cess of the recipient in high school completion, post-secondary education and training,
housing stability, professional growth, home ownership and safe and successful parenting.
(7) A grant awarded under this section may supplement but not supplant other resources
and services available to the grant recipient, or for which the grant recipient is entitled or
eligible, through any state or federal agency or public or private program.
(8) If moneys remain in the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund established in
section 2 of this 2025 Act on January 1, 2055, the department, by rule, may expand eligibility
for grants awarded under this section.
SECTION 2. (1) There is established the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund,
separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Youth Support and
Repayment Grant Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) The moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of Human
Services for purposes of the grant program established in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3.Sections 1 and 2 of this 2025 Act are repealed on the later of the date the
moneys in the Youth Support and Repayment Grant Fund are depleted or January 2, 2055.
SECTION 4.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.
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