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HB3610 • 2025

Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system.

Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system.

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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
Representative Diehl
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 Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system.

Digest: The Act tells DHS to create and send a report describing the families in child welfare to the legislature.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells DHS to create and send a report describing the families in child welfare to the legislature.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
  • Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not 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. 2025-02-20 House

    Referred to Early Childhood and Human Services.

  3. 2025-02-18 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells DHS to create and send a report describing the families in child welfare to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in the child welfare system. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to child welfare; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3610
Sponsored by Representative DIEHL
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 DHS to create and send a report describing the families in child welfare
to the legislature. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study the demographics of families involved in
the child welfare system. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of
the Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to child welfare; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Human Services shall study the demographics of families
involved in the child welfare system. The department 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 related to human services no later than September
15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. 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.
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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