SB20 • 2025

Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Gelser Blouin,, Representative Nosse,, Senator Broadman, Senator Campos,, Manning Jr,, Meek,, Neron Misslin,, Patterson,, Taylor,, Thatcher,, Weber,, Woods,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.

Digest: The Act creates a new program for people with disabilities to have a job and also get Medicaid.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act creates a new program for people with disabilities to have a job and also get Medicaid.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources.
Allows consideration of income when determining cost-sharing for the program.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-04-07 Senate
Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-04-07 Senate
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
2025-04-01 Senate
Work Session held.
2025-02-18 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Human Services, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act creates a new program for people with disabilities to have a job and also get Medicaid. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals' income or resources. Allows consideration of income when determining cost-sharing for the program.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to employed individuals with disabilities; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 20
Sponsored by Senator GELSER BLOUIN, Representative NOSSE; Senator PATTERSON (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 creates a new program for people with disabilities to have a job and also get
Medicaid. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the Department of Human Services to administer a program to provide medical as-
sistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to the individuals’ income or re-
sources. Allows consideration of income when determining cost-sharing for the program.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to employed individuals with disabilities; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 414.
SECTION 2. (1) The Department of Human Services shall administer a program to pro-
vide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities residing in this state who
qualify for Medicaid under 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XVI).
(2) The department may not consider an individual’s income or resources in determining
eligibility for the program described in subsection (1) of this section, and may establish an
age limit to qualify for the program only to the extent that an age limit is required by federal
law. The department may consider an individual’s income in determining premium or other
cost-sharing requirements if necessary to administer the program within available funds.
(3) The department shall coordinate benefits available under the program described in
subsection (1) of this section with an individual’s employer-sponsored health insurance, if
any.
(4) The department shall seek federal approval necessary to exclude from consideration
earnings accumulated in a separate account while an individual participates in the program
described in subsection (1) of this section when determining the individual’s eligibility for
medical assistance under ORS 414.706.
SECTION 3.
The Department of Human Services shall take all necessary steps to ensure
that the program described in section 2 of this 2025 Act is in operation no later than July
1, 2027.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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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