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Committee asks staff to analyze attorney-general costs across the department after ISF change

5670309 · August 19, 2025
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Legislative staff discussed the state Attorney General internal-service fund for legal services and rising legal costs in the Department of Health and Human Services, especially for DCFS; staff will work with ORS, AG's office and the department and return with options in October.

Committee staff told the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee that changes to how the attorney-general's office is funded have shifted legal-cost budgeting to agencies and that the Department of Health and Human Services is seeing increased legal-service expenditures, particularly for the Division of Child and Family…

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