Senate Bill 1579

<b>Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. The Act creates a task force to audit how this state has complied with Karly's Law and to study other matters related to services provided to victims of child abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3).</i>] Establishes the Children's Advocacy Center Fund. Provides that the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate sufficient moneys to the fund that are necessary to fully fund the existing grant program to establish, maintain and support children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers, and to support county child abuse multidisciplinary teams. [<i>Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the existing grant program.</i>] Directs the Department of Justice to develop and administer a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports provided by children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the grant program. [<i>Establishes the Task Force on County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams to audit Oregon's compliance with Karly's Law, to study and provide proposals for optimal funding rates for children's advocacy centers and to identify barriers to access to child abuse multidisciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services on or before December 3, 2024. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for purposes of the task force.</i>] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

In the Senate

• Tim Knopp

  Sponsor

• David Brock Smith, James Manning Jr.

  Chief co-sponsors

In the House of Representatives

• Jeffrey Helfrich

  Sponsor

• Emerson Levy, Courtney Neron Misslin

  Chief co-sponsors

• Senate, third reading28–0

  Passed · Mar 7 · 2 present

• House of Representatives, third reading54–0

  Passed · Mar 7 · 6 present

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Feb 19

• Senate committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Mar 7

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In the Senate Feb 5 – Mar 7

1. Feb 5Introduced
2. Sent to Human Services
3. Feb 7Heard in Human Services
4. Feb 14Heard in Human Services
5. Feb 19Human Services recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
6. Sent to Ways and Means
7. Mar 1Sent to Capital Construction Subcommittee
8. Mar 6Heard in Capital Construction Subcommittee
9. Heard in Capital Construction Subcommittee
10. Returned to Ways and Means
11. Mar 7Ways and Means recommended it as amended
12. Read a second time
13. Passed the Senate, 28 to 0

In the House of Representatives Mar 7

1. Mar 7Arrived in the House of Representatives
2. Sent to Ways and Means
3. Ways and Means recommended it
4. Read a second time
5. Passed the House of Representatives, 54 to 0

To the Governor Mar 12 – Mar 28

1. Mar 12Signed in the Senate
2. Mar 13Signed in the House of Representatives
3. Mar 27Signed by the Governor
4. Mar 28Became chapter 65 of Oregon Laws 2024
5. In force from March 27, 2024