SB526 • 2025

Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Patterson,, Sollman, Senator Jama,, Pham,, Reynolds,, Representative Andersen,, Gamba,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.

Digest: This Act prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that do not have a filter for small fibers, starting in 2030.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that do not have a filter for small fibers, starting in 2030.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Relating to: Relating to microfibers.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-17 Senate
Public Hearing held.
2025-02-12 Senate
Public Hearing held.
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 prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that do not have a filter for small fibers, starting in 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Relating to: Relating to microfibers.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 526
Sponsored by Senator PATTERSON; Senator SOLLMAN, Representatives ANDERSEN, GAMBA (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 prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that do not have a filter for small
fibers, starting in 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).
Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration
system, beginning January 1, 2030.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to microfibers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 468B.
SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section, “microfiber filtration system” means a filtration
system that:
(a) Is active across all washing cycles of a clothes washer;
(b) Has a mesh size of 100 micrometers or less; and
(c) Is either:
(A) Built into a newly manufactured clothes washer; or
(B) An in-line filtration system that is packaged with and capable of being installed with
a new clothes washer.
(2) A person may not sell or offer for sale in this state a new clothes washer unless:
(a) The clothes washer is equipped with a microfiber filtration system; and
(b) The clothes washer bears a conspicuous label that notifies consumers that the unit
includes a microfiber filtration system and instructs the consumer to check the filter ac-
cording to a regular schedule and dispose of captured lint with household solid waste.
SECTION 3.
(1) Section 2 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2030.
(2) The Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Quality Commis-
sion may take any action before the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section
that is necessary to enable the department or the commission to exercise, on and after the
operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions and
powers conferred on the department and the commission by section 2 of this 2025 Act.
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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