Senate Bill 1167 would fund community-led “child success” pilots and a Portland birthing village

Senate Bill 1167 would direct general fund appropriations for the 2025–27 biennium to community-based child success models focused on the first 1,000 days of life and would establish a birthing village in the Portland metro area, proponents told the Senate Committee on Early Childhood and Behavioral Health. The measure includes a sunset date of Jan. 2, 2027, and an emergency clause effective July 1, 2025.

Sen. Lisa Reynolds, a pediatrician who chairs the committee, said she “is in strong support of Senate Bill 11 67,” and described the statute as “an investment in Oregon's future.” Reynolds said the bill funds local organizations working “to ensure that children have equitable opportunities for success in their crucial early years,” noting that the period from conception through age 2 is when “80% of brain development occurs.”

Local leaders and health experts who helped design the proposal told the committee the bill would seed demonstration pilots developed through months of community…