Requires the Department of Human Services to study the transition of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities from youth residential settings to adult residential settings.

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Department of Human Services to study the transition of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities from youth residential settings to adult residential settings.

Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study the transition of certain youth to adult homes and facilities.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study the transition of certain youth to adult homes and facilities.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
• Requires the Department of Human Services to study the transition of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities from youth residential settings to adult residential settings.
• Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study the transition of certain youth to adult homes and facilities. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the transition of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities from youth residential settings to adult residential settings. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2983
Sponsored by Representative HELM (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 study the transition of certain youth to adult homes and facili-
ties. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the transition of individuals with intel-
lectual or developmental disabilities from youth residential settings to adult residential settings.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to human services no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Human Services shall study existing laws and rules
governing the transition of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities from
youth residential settings to adult residential settings. The department shall submit a report
in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation
designed to improve the transition process, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to human services no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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