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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 962
Sponsored by Senator ANDERSON
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 DELC to run a grant program to support tenants with updating dwellings
for use as a family child care home. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.4).
Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to administer a grant program to award
moneys to tenants to update dwellings for use as a family child care home.
Sunsets January 2, 2045.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to funding to support use of rental units as family child care homes.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section, “family child care home” has the meaning given
that term in ORS 329A.440.
(2) The Department of Early Learning and Care shall administer a program to provide
grants, using funds from the Tenant Family Child Care Home Fund established under section
2 of this 2025 Act, to tenants for costs of modifications necessary or desirable for the
tenant’s use, certification or registration of the dwelling as a family child care home in ac-
cordance with ORS 90.358.
(3) On or before December 1 of each year, the department shall report on the status of
the grant program described in this section to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to child care.
(4) The department shall adopt rules to carry out the provisions of this section, including
rules governing the:
(a) Eligibility criteria for tenants to receive a grant.
(b) Parameters for determining the size of a grant award.
(c) Restrictions on permissible uses of a grant.
(d) Form and process for grant applications.
SECTION 2. The Tenant Family Child Care Home Fund is established in the State
Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The Tenant Family Child Care Home
Fund consists of moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or transferred to the fund by the
Legislative Assembly or otherwise. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the
Department of Early Learning and Care to carry out the provisions of section 1 of this 2025
Act.
SECTION 3.(1) Sections 1 and 2 of this 2025 Act are repealed on January 2, 2045.
(2) Any moneys remaining in the Tenant Family Child Care Home Fund established under
section 2 of this 2025 Act on the date specified in subsection (1) of this section that are un-
expended, unobligated and not subject to any conditions shall revert to the General Fund.
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 1358 SB962
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SECTION 4. There is appropriated to the Department of Early Learning and Care, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $ , for deposit
in the Tenant Family Child Care Home Fund established under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
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