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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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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