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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 741
Sponsored by Senator GELSER BLOUIN; Senators CAMPOS, WEBER, Representatives RUIZ, SCHARF (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 DHS to adopt a compensation rate structure for foster parents. (Flesch
Readability Score: 63.4).
Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt a rate structure for foster parent compen-
sation.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to foster parent compensation; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Child in care” has the meaning given that term in ORS 418.257.
(b) “Foster home” has the meaning given that term in ORS 418.625.
(2) The Department of Human Services shall adopt by rule a compensation rate structure
for an individual who maintains a foster home for a child in care, that is necessary to ensure
that the individual is appropriately compensated to meet the needs of the child in care. The
compensation rate structure adopted under this section must include:
(a) A minimum base rate for each child in care that is at least 90 percent of the United
States Department of Agriculture’s most recent estimated cost to raise a child of the child
in care’s age;
(b) Mileage reimbursement for the child in care’s transportation that is required as a
part of the child in care’s case, including to and from visits, assessments and court ap-
pointments;
(c) Reimbursement for actual costs incurred by the individual for child care for the child
in care, up to the monthly maximum allowable child care costs adopted by the Division of
Child Support of the Department of Justice;
(d) Reimbursement for actual costs incurred for up to 16 hours per month of respite
care;and
(e) Appropriate rate enhancements for a child in care who is an infant or has exceptional
needs.
SECTION 2. (1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.
(2) The Department of Human Services may take any action before the operative date
specified in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the department to carry
out section 1 of this 2025 Act and to exercise, on and after the operative date specified in
subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions and powers conferred on the de-
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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partment by section 1 of this 2025 Act.
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.
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