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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3168
Sponsored by Representative MARSH, 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 makes changes to increase the safety of IDD service providers. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 60.7).
Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to require an agency that hires, trains
and supervises direct support professionals using state funds received from the department to im-
plement enhanced staffing ratios under specified circumstances.
Requires a residential training home or residential training facility that serves a high-needs
resident to provide to the department a staff safety plan that addresses specified issues.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to residential developmental disabilities services; 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) “Agency” and “attendant care services” have the meanings given those terms in ORS
427.191.
(b) “Exceptional service rate” means a higher payment rate based on the assessed service
needs of an individual.
(c) “Residential training facility” and “residential training home” have the meanings
given those terms in ORS 443.400.
(2) The Department of Human Services shall adopt rules to require an agency to imple-
ment enhanced staffing ratios when an individual resides in a residential training home or
residential training facility and:
(a) The agency is receiving an exceptional service rate for the provision of attendant care
services to the individual at a staff-to-individual ratio of one to one, two to one or three to
one; or
(b) The individual requires a specific staffing ratio or pattern according to criteria pre-
scribed by the department.
SECTION 2. Section 3 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 443.400 to
443.455.
SECTION 3. A residential training home or residential training facility that serves a
high-needs resident, as defined by the Department of Human Services, shall provide to the
department a staff safety plan that addresses emergency protocols, staff-to-supervisor ratios
and other staff safety issues as determined by the department.
SECTION 4. (1) Sections 1 and 3 of this 2025 Act become 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 ex-
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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ercise, on and after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the
duties, functions and powers conferred on the department by sections 1 and 3 of this 2025
Act.
SECTION 5.
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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