SB393 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events.

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Girod, Senator Smith DB,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events.

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to conduct a study on solar events.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to conduct a study on solar events.
(Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-21 Senate
Recommendation: Do pass.
2025-03-21 Senate
Referred to Ways and Means by order of the President.
2025-03-18 Senate
Work Session held.
2025-03-04 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells ODEM to conduct a study on solar events. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to solar events.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 393
Sponsored by Senator GIROD (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 ODEM to conduct a study on solar events. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6).
Requires the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study solar events. Directs the
department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
emergency management not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to solar events.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall study the po-
tential effects of a solar event on the well-being of the population of this state.
(2) The department may consult with any other entities, including state agencies, aca-
demic institutions and private entities, in carrying out the study.
(3) 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 related to emergency management no later than September 15, 2026.
(4) As used in this section, “solar event” means a solar flare or coronal mass ejection
resulting in geomagnetic effects on the earth.
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.
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