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HB3405 • 2025

Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care.

Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care.

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Passed Legislature

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

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

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 Early Learning and Care to study child care.

Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).
  • Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-30 House

    Referred to Rules.

  3. 2025-01-28 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8).
Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to child care.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3405
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON RULES (at the request of Representative Ben Bowman)
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 the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. (Flesch
Readability Score: 77.8).
Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care. Directs the depart-
ment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care
no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to child care.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Early Learning and Care shall study child care. The de-
partment shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to child care 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.
LC 3266