SB26 • 2025

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health.

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 Environmental Quality to study environmental health.

Digest: This Act tells the DEQ to study environmental health.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act tells the DEQ to study environmental health.
(Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no 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 Energy and Environment.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act tells the DEQ to study environmental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to environmental health.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 26
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: This Act tells the DEQ to study environmental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health. Directs the
department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the
environment no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to environmental health.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Environmental Quality shall study environmental health.
The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may in-
clude recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assem-
bly related to the environment 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 748