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Yes: 103 • No: 3
OregonSB 7392025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Relating to long term care oversight.
Sponsored By: Deb Patterson (Democratic), Sara Gelser Blouin (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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10 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
New care operators must hire experts
Applicants without experience operating or managing an Oregon residential care facility must hire a qualified consultant or management company. The contract must cover at least the first six months of operation. Required work includes policy and quality reviews, periodic on-site audits, and monthly reports. The Department of Human Services can extend the period if the facility is not in substantial compliance. This applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after the law’s effective date.
Care applicants get clearer oversight information
Residential care facilities must give applicants a state-developed explanation of licensing and inspections, and provide it upon request. This applies to admission applications made on or after the law’s effective date. Facilities placed in enhanced oversight must give written notice to current and prospective residents and residents’ designated contacts. After enhanced oversight ends, facilities may tell residents they are no longer in the program.
Residents get alerts about unsafe care
Residential care facilities must collect a chosen contact’s name, preferred contact details, and language at admission, unless the resident or representative declines. Facilities must immediately update those details after written notice. Facilities must notify residents and designated contacts within 72 hours after receiving reports of widespread or systemic violations causing death or serious harm, or restricting admissions. They must also make those reports available. When Oregon agencies confirm facility abuse, they must immediately notify the facility. The facility must give written findings to residents, their case managers, guardians, designated contacts, and the person found responsible.
Faster investigations when care complaints allege deaths
Oregon must start an on-site investigation within 24 hours or by the next business day’s end when a complaint alleges a licensing violation caused death. Other covered complaints require investigation without undue delay, separate from adult protective services investigations. Investigators must assess staffing when alleged shortages or possible staffing failures contributed, interview available identified witnesses privately unless requested otherwise, and document evidence. Findings must reach the facility, complainant, and Long Term Care Ombudsman within 90 days after the investigation starts. Confirmed violations require immediate written notice to the facility and Ombudsman, plus a report describing the complaint, violation, harm, and penalties or license conditions. Reports generally cannot identify residents but must disclose deaths or physical injuries.
Care homes face regular safety checks
Covered residential care, training, and treatment facilities and homes must be inspected 90–120 days after initial licensing and ownership changes. They also need inspections after renewal applications and fees arrive, and before renewal. Adult foster homes need on-site inspections 90–120 days after initial licensing, annually, and upon renewal applications—even with two-year licenses. Their renewals require completed inspections and criminal checks, with no registry abuse finding against the applicant or an employed nursing assistant. They must substantially comply, meaning any deficiencies pose no more than negligible risk to residents’ health or safety. After three straight years of substantial compliance, department-licensed adult foster homes can receive two-year terms; lost compliance can restore annual renewal. The adult foster home inspection changes apply to licenses issued or renewed on or after the law’s effective date.
Care homes get admissions review deadlines
A facility barred from new admissions after a complaint investigation can submit a written statement after fixing the violation. The Department of Human Services must decide within five calendar days whether the facility has reached substantial compliance. If it has, the department must lift the admissions restriction within 24 hours. The facility may then notify residents.
More funding for Oregon care programs
For the two-year budget starting July 1, 2025, Oregon adds $301,014 in state behavioral health funding. It also raises federal behavioral health spending authority by $301,014. Aging and disability programs gain $2.606369 million in state funding and $2.447526 million in federal spending authority. These increases depend on the respective 2025 budget enactments, HB 5025 and SB 5526. Federal increases exclude funds described in section 2 of each respective budget law. These provisions set no household payment amount or new eligibility rule.
Stronger safeguards before care homes open
Oregon residential facilities and adult foster homes must submit care and safety policies with their license applications. These must cover training, care planning, medicines, food, safety, emergencies, and closing the facility. Adult foster homes must also include succession plans. Before issuing an initial license, the agency must inspect the facility, approve its policies, and confirm it meets legal requirements. Adult foster home inspections must be in person.
Stronger safety standards for memory care
Oregon’s memory care standards must cover care plans, building design, staffing, training, safety, and exit controls. They must address notices when residents leave unexpectedly, admission and transfer policies, emergency evacuations, and facility closures. These changes apply to memory care endorsements issued on or after the law’s effective date. They cover communities caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Adult foster home fees become agency-set
The Department of Human Services sets application fees by rule for adult foster homes serving older adults or people with physical disabilities. This replaces the specified $20-per-bed fee for applications to that department. The new amount is not stated, so the law does not establish whether these applicants pay more or less. Applications to the Oregon Health Authority still carry a $20-per-bed fee.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Deb Patterson
Democratic • Senate
Sara Gelser Blouin
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Courtney Neron Misslin
Democratic • Senate
Cyrus Javadi
Democratic • House
David Brock Smith
Republican • Senate
Janeen Sollman
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/26/2025
Third reading. Carried by Hartman. Passed.
Yes: 48 • No: 0
Senate vote • 6/23/2025
Third reading. Carried by Gelser Blouin. Passed.
Yes: 29 • No: 1
legislature vote • 6/17/2025
Ways and Means: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 23 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Human Services: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Effective date, January 1, 2026.
8/13/2025SenateChapter 619, 2025 Laws.
8/13/2025SenateGovernor signed.
7/31/2025SenateSpeaker signed.
6/27/2025HousePresident signed.
6/27/2025SenateThird reading. Carried by Hartman. Passed.
6/26/2025HouseSecond reading.
6/25/2025HouseRecommendation: Do pass.
6/25/2025HouseReferred to Ways and Means.
6/23/2025HouseFirst reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
6/23/2025HouseThird reading. Carried by Gelser Blouin. Passed.
6/23/2025SenateSecond reading.
6/20/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.)
6/19/2025SenateWork Session held.
6/17/2025SenateReturned to Full Committee.
6/11/2025SenateWork Session held.
6/11/2025SenateAssigned to Subcommittee On Human Services.
6/6/2025SenateReferred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
4/18/2025SenateRecommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.)
4/18/2025SenateWork Session held.
4/9/2025SenateWork Session held.
4/3/2025SenatePublic Hearing held.
4/1/2025SenatePublic Hearing held.
3/18/2025SenateReferred to Human Services, then Ways and Means.
1/17/2025SenateIntroduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
1/13/2025Senate
Bill Text
JWM Amendment -A7 (Adopted)
6/17/2025
JWMHS Amendment -A6 (Proposed)
6/11/2025
JWMHS Amendment -A8 (Proposed)
6/11/2025
SHS Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SHS Amendment -4 (Proposed)
4/9/2025
SHS Amendment -5 (Adopted)
4/9/2025
SHS Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/8/2025
SHS Amendment -4 (Proposed)
4/8/2025
SHS Amendment -5 (Proposed)
4/8/2025
SHS Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/3/2025
SHS Amendment -3 (Proposed)
4/1/2025
SHS Amendment -3 (Proposed)
3/18/2025
A-Engrossed
B-Engrossed
Enrolled
Introduced
Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed
Senate Amendments to Introduced
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