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Committees · 2026 Regular Session

Early Childhood and Behavioral Health

A Senate committee, in every session since the 2025 session.

Other sessions: 2025

Members

In the 2026 Regular Session. Each name leads to the member's page.

Bills, so far

Bills sent to the committee in the 2026 Regular Session so far.

  • Bills sent12

    7% of the bills the Senate sent to committees

  • Reported out92%

    11 of 12; 1 stopped in committee

  • Time in committee13 days

    most between 11 and 14 days

  • Amendments offered0

    committee amendments

In every session

Each session on day 278 of its term, or its last day if its term was shorter. The 2026 is so far.

  • 2026 · so far12 bills

    reported 92% · typically 13 days, most 11–14 · 0 amendments · 5 members

  • 202542 bills

    reported 69% · typically 57 days, most 34–80 · 0 amendments · 5 members

Bills it was sent

Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2026 Regular Session, newest first.

12 bills

  • House Bill 4057 · Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to provide standardized information on all publicly funded early learning and care programs and resources available in this state to people who apply for or are placed on the waitlist for the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.

    Sent February 19, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 4–1 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • House Bill 4069 · Requires a behavioral health employer to implement a written safety policy or plan for the physical safety of individuals working for the behavioral health employer.

    Sent February 19, 2026 · Reported out after 11 days, 4–1 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • House Bill 4070 · Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment.

    Sent February 19, 2026 · Reported out after 8 days, 5–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • House Bill 4083 · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to, no later than June 30, 2027, adopt a uniform process for credentialing behavioral health providers and select an existing electronic credentialing system.

    Sent February 12, 2026 · Reported out after 12 days, 4–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • House Bill 4022 · Establishes the Oregon Imagination Library Program to provide a free book each month to eligible children, encourage children to develop a love of reading and learning and improve school readiness, third-grade reading proficiency and high school graduation rates.

    Sent February 11, 2026 · Reported out after 13 days, 4–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • House Bill 4068 · Modifies the definition of "transition aged youth residential treatment home" to include young adults between the ages of 17 and 25.

    Sent February 11, 2026 · Reported out after 13 days, 4–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • Senate Bill 1535 · Allows the Early Learning Council to modify the priority given to families receiving temporary assistance for needy families for participation in the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 14 days, 5–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • Senate Bill 1546 · Requires operators of artificial intelligence companions and artificial intelligence companion platforms to provide notice to users that the users are interacting with artificial output if a reasonable person that interacts with the artificial intelligence companion or artificial intelligence companion platform would believe that the person was interacting with a natural person.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 14 days, 4–1 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • Senate Bill 1547 · Authorizes the Oregon Board of Psychology to issue a license to practice behavioral health promotion, prevention and brief intervention to a qualified applicant.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 7 days, 5–0 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • Senate Bill 1548 · Requires cannabinoid edibles to be individually packaged and allows up to 10 milligrams of adult use cannabinoid per individual cannabinoid edible.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 14 days, 5–0 · then passed the Senate

  • Senate Bill 1568 · Establishes coverage levels for doula services in the state medical assistance program and for health benefit plans that provide coverage for pregnancy and childbirth expenses.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Reported out after 15 days, 4–1 · then passed the Senate, and became law

  • Senate Bill 1573 · Prohibits a syringe service program from operating a mobile or temporary location within 2,000 feet of a school or licensed child care facility.

    Sent February 2, 2026 · Stopped in committee after 32 days