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SB25 • 2025

Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.

Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.

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

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.

Digest: The Act tells DHS to study emergency departments.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act tells DHS to study emergency departments.
  • The Act requires DHS to report to certain committees on its study.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
  • Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Health Care.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells DHS to study emergency departments. The Act requires DHS to report to certain committees on its study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments. 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 emergency departments.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 25
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: The Act tells DHS to study emergency departments. The Act requires DHS to report to
certain committees on its study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3).
Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments. Directs the de-
partment 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.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to emergency departments.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Human Services shall study emergency departments. 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 Legislative Assembly re-
lated 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 752