l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1565

Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health needs or very high medical needs.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Ways and Means Committee on March 7, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: The Act requires the DHS to pay parents to provide in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act requires the DHS to pay for a certain number of hours of in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).</i>] Requires the Department of Human Services to pay [<i>for</i>]<b> parents to provide</b> attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health needs or very high medical needs. [<i>Requires the department, for children in each category, to pay for no less hours of attendant care services for a child than for the average attendant care hours utilized by the children in the same category and to supplement underutilized hours by paying the child's parent to provide the services.</i>] Directs the department to seek any federal funding available for attendant care services no later than [<i>April 1, 2024</i>]<b> January 1, 2025</b>. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

4 co-sponsors

Tim Knopp, David Brock Smith, Daniel Bonham, Lynn Findley

Its course

February 5 to March 7, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action7 actions on 5 days

In the SenateFeb 5 to Mar 7 · stopped31 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

Health CareFeb 5 to Feb 1510 days

Ways and MeansFeb 15 to Mar 7 · stopped21 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 15

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Feb 5 – Mar 7

  1. Feb 5Introduced
  2. Sent to Health Care
  3. Feb 12Heard in Health Care
  4. Feb 14Heard in Health Care
  5. Feb 15Health Care recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Mar 7Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Feb 5Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Feb 5Referred to Health Care, then Ways and Means.Senate
  3. Feb 12Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Feb 14Work Session held.Senate
  5. Feb 15Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.)Senate
  6. Feb 15Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.Senate
  7. Mar 7In committee upon adjournment.Senate