Bills Pending Oregon House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee

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ORHB2567Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3091Intro
25%
This Act tells the DEQ to make clear rules about its permits and to expedite permits if it misses a deadline. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.7). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish clear administrative rules and internal dire...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2068Intro
25%
This Act makes two new kinds of redemption centers and makes other changes to the Bottle Bill. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Modifies provisions of the beverage container redemption and recycling law. Authorizes establishment of alternative acces...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3087Intro
25%
Creates a tax credit for the amount paid for transmission services for solar or wind power or power storage. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Creates an income or corporate excise tax credit for the amount paid by an owner of an eligible generation ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3244Intro
25%
This Act changes how air pollution is tested at a place that burns solid waste. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.5). Replaces the requirement that an owner or operator of a municipal solid waste incinerator conduct continuous monitoring or sampling of s...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2878Intro
25%
The Act tells an agency to create a program for sequestering carbon. The Act allows the State Treasurer to issue certain bonds for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Authorizes the State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under A...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2961Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3172Intro
25%
The Act tells an agency to create a grant program for reducing wildfire damage. The program is for retrofitting homes and other structures. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Directs the Department of the State Fir...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3052Intro
25%
This Act requires the DEQ to study PFAS. (Flesch Readability Score: 92.9). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Directs the department to submit findings to the interim commit...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2566Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2410Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2921Intro
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This Act makes changes to how some redemption centers may be sited and approved. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Modifies provisions related to the siting and approval of full-service redemption centers. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjou...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2980Intro
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The Act tells ODFW to set up a Wildlife Stewardship Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a Wildlife Stewardship Program. Directs the department to administer a grant program to supp...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3016Intro
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This Act tells the EQC to give rebates to people that replace gas lawn and garden tools with electric lawn and garden tools. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Directs the Environmental Quality Commission to establish a program to provide rebate vouch...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3081Intro
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Makes ODOE do outreach and provide certain support. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Requires the State Department of Energy to coordinate with other organizations, conduct outreach, establish a statewide navigation and support system and provide in...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2370Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2375Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2426Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3107Intro
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This Act changes the way DEQ can agree to make a regulatory process work better or faster. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Modifies the authority of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into agreements with regulated entities to expedit...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2067Intro
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This Act directs ODOE to make a program to give rebates for the purchase of leaf blowers that run on batteries. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Directs the State Department of Energy to establish a rebate program for the purchase of battery-powered...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2981Intro
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The Act tells an agency to study aquatic invasive species. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study aquatic invasive species. Directs the department ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3160Intro
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The Act tells the State Fire Marshal to study funding for fire districts. The Act tells the State Fire Marshal to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 85.8). Directs the State Fire Marshal to study funding for fire districts. Directs the S...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2738Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2656Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2332Intro
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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....
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2066Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3170Intro
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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 ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2062Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2887Intro
25%
The Act tells an agency to create a specific carbon sink as an area. The Act creates a task force related to the area. The Act sunsets the task force. The Act creates an advisory board related to the area. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.2). Requires t...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2038Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2985Intro
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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.
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3171Intro
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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 ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2065Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2064Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3119Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3125Intro
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The Act creates a task force related to rangeland wildfire. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Establishes the Task Force on Rangeland Wildfire Resilience and Risk Reduction. Sunsets the task force on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day fo...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2817Intro
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The Act removes permit closure of forests. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Eliminates the closure of forestland, due to fire danger, by permit closure.
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2765Intro
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This Act tells DEQ to create a grant program to prevent fuel spills. (Flesch Readability Score: 96.0). Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to develop and maintain a grant program to prevent spills at fuel facilities. Establishes the Fuel ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3018Intro
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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...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2679Intro
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This Act puts limits on the use of pesticides that have some neonicotinoids in them. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to classify certain pesticides containing neonicotinoids as restricted-use. Prohibits a...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2960Intro
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This Act forbids facilities that change the structure of waste plastic. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Prohibits the establishment or operation of a plastic conversion or depolymerization facility in this state. Prohibits state agencies and local ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3123Intro
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The Act tells ODA to start a program to give grants to help reduce the risk and impact of wildfires in rangeland areas of the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.8). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish a wildfire risk and impact...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2100Intro
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This Act tells the DEQ to study the effect on small businesses of the ban on some food containers and packing peanuts. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the effects on small businesses of sale...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2063Intro
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This Act creates a task force to study and report on energy production on farm land. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Creates the Agrivoltaics Task Force staffed by the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Requires the task force to stud...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB2910Intro
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The Act would change some laws related to energy and property taxes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Authorizes local governments to adopt additional criteria to encourage energy efficiency and energy generation on property granted certain exemptio...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
ORHB3117Intro
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The Act tells an agency to study ways to fund responses to natural disasters. The Act tells the agency to report on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Directs the State Forestry Department to study funding for preventing, responding to and ...
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2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee
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