SB22 • 2025

Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Senator Patterson
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care.

Digest: Tells DCBS to study affordable health care and report back.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Tells DCBS to study affordable health care and report back.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Health Care.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells DCBS to study affordable health care and report back. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to affordability in health care.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 22
Sponsored by Senator PATTERSON (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Tells DCBS to study affordable health care and report back. (Flesch Readability Score:
61.3).
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study affordability in health
care. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to health care not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to affordability in health care.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Consumer and Business Services shall study affordability
in health care. The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245,
and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legisla-
tive Assembly related to health care no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2790