Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SB133: Relating to developmental disabilities services.
Status: Vetoed, April 16, 2026
Digest: The Act tells DHS to, each year, adjust for inflation payments to certain I/DD service providers. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [ Digest: The Act tells ODHS to study certain services. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). ] [ Requires the Department of Human Services to study developmental disabilities services. 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. ] Requires the Department of Human Services, when the department enters into a contract with a provider agency for the provision of services to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities by direct support professionals, to annually adjust the payments made under the contract for inflation.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, April 18, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session SENATE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL By COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES April Delete lines 4 through 8 of the printed bill and insert: "SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section: "(a) 'Community living support' includes attendant care, skills training and relief care. "(b) 'Day support activities' means attendant care delivered during scheduled, structured activities in a nonresidential setting that focuses on maintaining or enhancing the skills needed by an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to engage in the individual's community. "(c) 'Direct support professional' means an employee of a provider agency who provides attendant care to individuals receiving employment services, supported living services, day support activities, in-home or community living support services or services in a residential training facility or residential training home. "(d) 'Employment services' means individualized, evidence-based services provided to an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to assist the individual in choosing, securing and retaining work in an integrated employment setting. "(e) 'Provider agency' means an entity that "(B) In-home services; "(C) Supported living services; "(D) Employment services; "(E) Day support activities; or "(F) Community living support. "(f) 'Residential training facility' and 'residential training home' have the meanings given those terms in ORS 443.400. "(g) 'Supported living services' means services that provide an individual with an intellectual or …