SB1105 • 2025

Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored by the obligor and obligee for compliance.

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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: Senator Bonham
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored by the obligor and obligee for compliance.

Digest: The Act tells the DOJ to adopt by rule a process for requiring the use of a monitored debit card for spending child support payments.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the DOJ to adopt by rule a process for requiring the use of a monitored debit card for spending child support payments.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.0).
Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored by the obligor and obligee for compliance.
Relating to: Relating to a child support debit card.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-03 Senate
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-02-27 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the DOJ to adopt by rule a process for requiring the use of a monitored debit card for spending child support payments. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0).
Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored by the obligor and obligee for compliance.
Relating to: Relating to a child support debit card.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1105
Sponsored by Senator BONHAM (at the request of Jason Gearhart)
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 DOJ to adopt by rule a process for requiring the use of a monitored
debit card for spending child support payments. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0).
Directs the child support administrator to adopt rules requiring that child support awards be
distributed to a debit card and that the spending of child support payments be limited and monitored
by the obligor and obligee for compliance.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a child support debit card.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Administrator of the Division of Child Support of the Department
of Justice shall establish by rule a procedure for remission of child support awards to
obligees by debit card, subject to the following requirements:
(a) The debit card may only be used by the obligee to make purchases that are necessary
items to ensure the welfare of the child for whom the support is made.
(b) The obligor and obligee must receive a ledger of purchases made by the obligee in the
prior month.
(c) The obligee must provide the Department of Justice with a monthly accounting that
aligns with the debit card ledger and is supported by receipts.
(d) If the obligor objects to any purchase made by the obligee, the obligor may petition
the court to be reimbursed for the amounts challenged.
(2) Beginning on the effective date of this 2025 Act, the department shall require that all
remissions of child support awards to obligees be made to a debit card meeting the require-
ments under this section.
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 4353