Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt by rule a minimum staffing ratio of 30 to 1 for service coordinators and personal agents serving individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 725
Sponsored by Senator GORSEK; Representative RUIZ (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 tells ODHS to adopt staffing rules for certain case managers. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 74.8).
Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt by rule a minimum staffing ratio of 30 to
1 for service coordinators and personal agents serving individuals with intellectual or developmental
disabilities.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to case management services for individuals with developmental disabilities; and prescrib-
ing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Developmental disability” and “intellectual disability” have the meanings given those
terms in ORS 427.005.
(b) “Personal agent” means a person employed by a support service brokerage who de-
livers case management services or person-centered planning for individuals with intellectual
or developmental disabilities.
(c) “Person-centered planning” has the meaning given that term in ORS 427.101.
(d) “Service coordinator” means a person employed by a community developmental disa-
bilities program described in ORS 430.620 who delivers case management services or person-
centered planning for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
(e) “Support service brokerage” has the meaning given that term in ORS 427.101.
(2) No later than January 1, 2026, the Department of Human Services shall adopt by rule
minimum staffing requirements to ensure that community developmental disabilities pro-
grams described in ORS 430.620 and support service brokerages are staffed with sufficient
service coordinators and personal agents to meet the needs of the individuals they serve.
(3) The staffing requirements adopted under this section shall ensure that, at all times,
a service coordinator or personal agent is assigned to serve no more than 30 individuals.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.
SECTION 3. The Department of Human Services may take any action before the opera-
tive date specified in section 2 of this 2025 Act that is necessary to enable the department
to exercise, on and after the operative date specified in section 2 of this 2025 Act, all of the
duties, functions and powers conferred on the department by section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 5. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
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 1999
SB 725
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regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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