OR SB879

Oregon Health Authority and Department of Corrections must monthly identify state hospital patients and incarcerated individuals who receive compensation for work performed, and report this information to the child support administrator.

When an obligor with a previously suspended child support order (due to presumed inability to pay) begins earning wages while institutionalized, support enforcement must notify both parties that employment evidence may be used to rebut the presumption.

Parties have 30 days after receiving notice of the obligor's employment to object to the presumption of inability to pay; if no objection is filed, the support order remains suspended.

If a court or administrative law judge finds the presumption rebutted based on new employment evidence, the support order is reinstated on the first day of the month following that finding.

Amends ORS 25.245 and 25.247 to add this new objection pathway for both cash assistance recipients and incarcerated obligors serving 180 or more consecutive days.