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Introduced
03/17/2025
03/17/2025
In Committee
04/11/2025
04/11/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2025 Legislative Measures
Bill Summary
The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: The Act tells OHA to create a way for families to exchange messages with their missing family members. The Act does not force contact among family members. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Digest: The Act directs DSP to create a way for families to exchange messages with their missing family members. The Act would not force contact among family members. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.5). Directs the Department of State Police to create the SIGNAL program (State Initiated Guidance for Notifying and Assisting the Lost). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to create the Call Your Mom Program. Provides a way for a parent or former guardian of a missing person family member between 18 years of age and 30 years of age to exchange messages with the missing family member. Requires behavioral health treatment or rehabilitation organizations to determine at intake whether an individual is a missing family member whose parent or former guardian has submitted a message to the program and provide information necessary to access and respond to the message. Provides that participation in the program is voluntary for a miss- ing family member and a parent or former guardian. Requires the department authority to destroy all information and materials received under the program within specified time limits.
AI Summary
This bill establishes the Call Your Mom Program through the Oregon Health Authority, designed to help reconnect parents or former guardians with missing family members between 18 and 30 years old. The program creates a voluntary message exchange system where parents can submit messages to behavioral health treatment or rehabilitation organizations, which will then attempt to provide these messages to their missing family members during intake or admission. The system requires creating a secure personal identification number for each message, allowing the missing family member to access and potentially respond to the message. Behavioral health organizations are required to determine if an incoming individual is a missing family member, inform them about the program, notify them of any messages, and offer a means to access and respond. The program is entirely voluntary for the missing family member, and all program-related information must be destroyed within one year of message receipt or response. The program is set to become operative on July 1, 2026, giving organizations time to prepare implementation. The bill defines various types of behavioral health organizations that can participate and clarifies that a missing family member does not need to have been officially reported missing to be eligible for the program.
Committee Categories
Budget and Finance, Justice
Sponsors (1)
Last Action
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (on 04/11/2025)
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