HB2524 • 2025

Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a grant program for court and community care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.

Children

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Evans
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a grant program for court and community care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.

Digest: The Act tells ODVA to make a program to give grants to court and community care programs for children of veterans.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODVA to make a program to give grants to court and community care programs for children of veterans.
(Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a grant program for court and community care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.
Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans' Services Fund for the program.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODVA to make a program to give grants to court and community care programs for children of veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish a grant program for court and community care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.
Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans' Services Fund for the program.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to child care programs to support veterans' access to services; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2524
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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 ODVA to make a program to give grants to court and community care
programs for children of veterans. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish a grant program for court and com-
munity care programs providing services to children of veterans and veteran families.
Allocates lottery moneys from the Veterans’ Services Fund for the program.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to child care programs to support veterans’ access to services; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Veterans’ Affairs shall establish a program to provide
grants for funding for programs to provide court and community care to children of veterans
and veteran families.
(2) The department may award a grant under the program to a court and community
care program that:
(a) Is an established court and community care program at the time of application for
the grant;
(b) Demonstrates that the court and community care program has current or planned
future service availability specifically for children of veterans and veteran families;
(c) Agrees to use grant funds only to provide service availability to children of veterans
and veteran families; and
(d) Agrees to gather and report to the department data on the usage of the court and
community care program by veterans and the benefits of the program to veterans.
(3) The department may adopt rules to implement this section.
SECTION 2.
There is allocated for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, from the
Veterans’ Services Fund, to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the amount of $500,000 for
the purposes of making grants and paying administrative costs under the program estab-
lished under section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $500,000
is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for payment of
expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Veterans’ Services Fund established under
ORS 406.140 to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, for the purposes of making grants and
paying administrative costs under the program established under section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4.
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
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 1555
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