| 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
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 8:00 am]
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
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 8:00 am]
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
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 8:00 am]
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
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 8:00 am]
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2980 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 8:00 am]
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
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 8:00 am]
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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 8:00 am]
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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 8:00 am]
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 |
| 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] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3313 | Intro
25% | Makes power made from the direct burning of solid waste eligible for RECs. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HJM10 | Intro
25% | Asks DOE and Congress to urge BPA to make cleaner, cheaper energy that everyone in the Pacific Northwest can count on. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Requests the United States Department of Energy and the United States Congress to support the Bon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3262 | Intro
25% | Creates a fund that three state agencies may use to help protect from, recover from and restore property damaged by wildfires. Specifies what the agencies may use the moneys in the fund to do. Tells the State Fire Marshal to send some of the money to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3271 | Intro
25% | The Act requires a study on the laws about energy incentives. The Act would require ODOE to submit a report of the results of the study by a certain date. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the State Department of Energy to study laws related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3260 | Intro
25% | The Act tells ODEM to give grants to make facilities more resilient. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Directs the Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and maintain a grant program to harden community facilities against man-made and n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3256 | Intro
25% | This Act says that vehicles that are eight years old or newer do not need a certified pollution control system. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Exempts motor vehicles with model years that predate by eight years or less the date of registration or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3263 | Intro
25% | The Act tells an agency to create a specific area in which trees must be replanted. The Act creates a task force. The Act ends the task force a while later and creates an advisory board. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.2). Requires the State Forestry D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3091 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2068 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3087 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3244 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2878 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3172 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3052 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2921 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3016 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3081 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2426 | 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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3107 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2067 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2981 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB3160 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
| OR | HB2887 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
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] | 2025-01-17
To House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee |
