| OR | HB2567 | Intro
25% | Directs the use of best practices to keep personal data under the heat pump program secure and private. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires an eligible entity that receives a grant under the Heat Pump Deployment Program to agree to use best pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2410 | Intro
25% | Allows EFSC to approve a power plant demo project that uses one or more small modular reactors. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Allows the Energy Facility Siting Council to issue a site certificate for a small modular reactor energy facility demons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2038 | Intro
25% | Tells ODOE to study nuclear energy and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires the State Department of Energy to study nuclear energy, including nuclear waste disposal from nuclear energy. Directs the department to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3336 | Intro
25% | Makes a power company file with the PUC a plan for using grid enhancing technologies where doing so is cost-effective. Requires the plan to be updated every two years. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Declares a state policy regarding the electric t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3628 | Intro
25% | Creates a public body to fund, build, upgrade, own and carry out transmission projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Establishes the Oregon Electric Transmission Authority as an independent public corporation. Provides that the authority shall s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3655 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the DEQ to make a program to test and certify wastewater lagoon operators. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a program for examination and certification of operators of lagoon ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3645 | Intro
25% | The Act tells SFD to do a study on wildfires. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.1). Requires the State Forestry Department to study wildfires. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3648 | Intro
25% | The Act directs the Department of State Police to study places where drugs can be destroyed. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the Department of State Police to study locations where contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3653 | Intro
25% | Lets a state agency sign a contract to get energy savings and other benefits. Says that the state agency must obey certain rules, hire an approved company and get a guarantee of a certain level of savings. Takes effect on the 91st day after the sessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3597 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on electric vehicles. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3620 | Intro
25% | Repeals the public purpose charge. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Repeals the public purpose charge and public purpose expenditure standard for electric companies and Oregon Community Power. Repeals the Housing and Community Services Department El...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3598 | Intro
25% | This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on electric vehicles. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3593 | Intro
25% | Makes ODOE do a study on the lower Deschutes River and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires the State Department of Energy to study the lower Deschutes River. Directs the department to submit findings to the int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3261 | Intro
25% | This Act creates the Task Force on Renewable Diesel and tells it to carry out a study. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Establishes the Task Force on Renewable Diesel. Directs the task force to study the availability of renewable diesel, estimate cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3565 | Intro
25% | Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors. Exempts the siting from certain conditions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3609 | Intro
25% | Makes each power company create a program for buying grid services. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Requires each electric company to develop a distributed power plant program for the procurement of grid services to be provided by distributed energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2375 | Intro
25% | Makes a person who builds or updates a wind power facility apply to the FAA to put in a system to reduce lighting. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires a person who is developing or repowering a wind energy facility to apply to the Federal Avia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2985 | Intro
25% | The Act changes the laws about how the PUC conducts proceedings. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Modifies provisions relating to the administrative proceedings of the Public Utility Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3171 | Intro
25% | Changes what must be included in an energy resilience plan that a county makes under the Act. Extends the time of a grant program for counties making an energy resilience plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Changes the requirements for an energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2817 | Intro
25% | The Act removes permit closure of forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Eliminates the closure of forestland, due to fire danger, by permit closure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3578 | Intro
25% | The Act makes the Department of Wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Establishes the Department of Wildfire. Directs the department to oversee wildfire prevention, intervention and recovery in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2738 | Intro
25% | This Act bans the use of leaded fuel at race tracks in cities with 500,000 or more people. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Prohibits the use of leaded fuel at race tracks in cities with a population of 500,000 or greater as of January 1, 2026. Take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2656 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to laws involving solar power systems. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Prohibits the Public Utility Commission, municipal electric utilities, electric cooperatives and people's utility districts from setting a maximum amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2062 | Intro
25% | This Act says that makers of batteries must carry out a plan to collect and recycle batteries. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires producers of batteries or battery-containing products to join a battery producer responsibility organization and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3018 | Intro
25% | This Act makes new laws to prevent and dispose of food waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.9). Requires entities that cook, assemble, process, serve or sell food to recover and dispose of food waste as specified in the Act. Directs the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3540 | Intro
25% | Provides for a single limit on the cost for a power company to comply with both an RPS and the clean energy targets. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Provides for a single limit on the cost of compliance for an electric utility that is required to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3549 | Intro
25% | This Act exempts lamps used for the care of animals from a ban on fluorescent lamps. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). Exempts lamps used for the care of animals from a prohibition on the sale and distribution of fluorescent lamps. Declares an emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3546 | Intro
25% | Tells the PUC to provide for a class of service for facilities that use large amounts of energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities. Direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3539 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the EQC to get a third party to study and make an emissions factor for electricity bought from unknown sources. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to contract with a third party to study and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3548 | Intro
25% | Repeals the law that requires there to be a place for radioactive waste to be disposed of before a nuclear power plant may be sited in this state. Repeals the law that requires a proposed nuclear power plant first receive approval from the electors o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2566 | Intro
25% | Adds a stand-alone energy resilience project to the types of projects that may get a grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Adds stand-alone energy resilience projects to the categories of projects eligible for a grant under the State Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2332 | Intro
25% | This Act stops the DEQ from making some air curtain incinerators get a Title V permit. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring a Title V operating permit for certain air curtain incinerators....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3512 | Intro
25% | This Act prohibits the sale of certain products that contain PFAS. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Prohibits the distribution or sale of certain covered products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3513 | Intro
25% | This Act tells the DEQ to study and make a report on solid waste incinerators. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study solid waste incinerators. Directs the department to submit findings to the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3508 | Intro
25% | The Act tells SFD to work with others and do a study about how to better manage forests in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.7). Directs the State Forestry Department, in collaboration with the Oregon Business Development Department and the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3477 | Intro
25% | This Act changes the state's goals to reduce greenhouse gases and changes the term "global warming" to "climate change" in some laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. Replaces the term "global...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3469 | Intro
25% | Specifies that power made by a dam or hydro-related equipment may be used to comply with an RPS. Repeals the law that makes an electric company stop using coal to make power. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Specifies that electricity generated by a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2066 | Intro
25% | Tells the PUC to create rules and a framework to allow microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a regulatory framework to allow the ownership, deployment and use of microgrids and community micr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2065 | Intro
25% | Allows the use of a third party to study or evaluate a request to connect a project to a power system. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Allows a person to contract with a third-party consultant to conduct a study or engineering evaluation that a pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2064 | Intro
25% | Makes the PUC take certain actions to support microgrids. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Requires the Public Utility Commission to take certain actions to support the operations of microgrids and community microgrids. Requires the Department of Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3465 | Intro
25% | The Act tells a state agency to pursue a fire protection contract with a federal agency. The contract would apply in two counties. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Directs the State Forestry Department to endeavor to enter into a fire protection con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2961 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of parking spaces in some new buildings that must have what is needed to charge electric cars. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Increases the percentage of electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles or electric v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3170 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to laws about networks that help people prepare for and respond to disasters. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Modifies the definitions of and grant requirements for Resilience Hubs and Resilience Networks. Appropriates moneys ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3432 | Intro
25% | The Act lets wineries refuse to redeem cans and bottles not sold at the winery. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Permits a winery to refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of beverage containers not sold at the winery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3353 | Intro
25% | The Act tells agencies to study how wildfire affects water quality. The Act tells the agencies to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environmental Quality to stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2370 | Intro
25% | Raises the annual fee amount that the PUC may impose on public utilities to cover costs of the commission. Takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Increases the annual fee amount that the Public Utility Commission m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3433 | Intro
25% | This Act adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill and makes other changes to the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Adds wine bottles to the Bottle Bill, operative July 1, 2026. Modifies provisions of the Bottle Bill applicable to wine containers. Ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3119 | Intro
25% | This Act tells DEQ to wait to enforce some California rules on truck exhaust. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3422 | Intro
25% | Adds to the standards that must be met for EFSC to take an exception to a planning goal for a proposed energy facility. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Adds a criterion to the standards that the Energy Facility Siting Council must find for the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3247 | Intro
25% | Makes a power company have a new power source that meets certain standards before the company can close a power plant. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requires an electric company to first acquire a replacement resource of reliable or dispatchable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
