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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 850
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Governor Tina Kotek for Oregon Health Authority)
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 gives moneys to an agency to help fund groups that work on health equity.
(Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to regional health equity coalitions; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $________, which shall be expended to:
(1) Provide funding to support ___ additional regional health equity coalitions for a
statewide total of ___;
(2) Provide funding to enable each regional health equity coalition to hire additional
full-time staff; and
(3) Allocate $________ to regional health equity coalitions to be used for:
(a) Facility costs;
(b) Costs related to providing child care, transportation and interpretation and trans-
lation services; and
(c) Stipends paid for regional health equity coalition members’ attendance at meetings.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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 472