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HB3852 • 2025

Requires the Department of Human Services to study services for seniors.

Requires the Department of Human Services to study services for seniors.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Early Childhood and Human Services,
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 services for seniors.

Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study services for seniors.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study services for seniors.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
  • Requires the Department of Human Services to study services for seniors.
  • 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. 2025-03-04 House

    Referred to Early Childhood and Human Services.

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study services for seniors. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study services for seniors. 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.
Relating to: Relating to senior citizens.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3852
Sponsored by Representative SMITH G
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 services for seniors. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study services for seniors. Directs the depart-
ment 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.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to senior citizens.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Human Services shall study services for seniors. 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 re-
lated 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.
LC 3454