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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
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House Bill 2067
Ordered by the House April 7
Including House Amendments dated April 7
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Climate, Energy, and Environment for Representative John Lively)
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: 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 leaf blowers.
Establishes the Commercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to landscape equipment rebates; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Battery-powered leaf blower” means a leaf blower that is powered by an electric
battery.
(b) “Commercial contractor” has the meaning given that term in ORS 701.005.
(c) “Landscape construction professional” means a landscape construction professional,
as defined in ORS 671.520, who is licensed under ORS 671.510 to 671.760.
(d) “Landscape contracting business” means a landscape contracting business, as defined
in ORS 671.520, that is licensed under ORS 671.510 to 671.760.
(2) The State Department of Energy shall establish by rule a program for providing re-
bates to commercial contractors, landscape construction professionals and landscape con-
tracting businesses for the purchase of battery-powered leaf blowers. The purpose of the
program is to offset the costs to commercial contractors, landscape construction profes-
sionals and landscape contracting businesses of purchasing battery-powered leaf blowers to
improve energy efficiency and reduce noise pollution.
(3) Rebates shall be in an amount that is equal to 50 percent of the price paid by the
person requesting the rebate for:
(a) A battery-powered leaf blower; and
(b) Any new batteries or new battery chargers necessary for the person to use the
battery-powered leaf blower for ordinary business reasons.
(4) Rebates shall be made only for battery-powered leaf blowers that are intended to be
used for business reasons.
(5) Rebates shall be made from moneys credited to or deposited in the Commercial
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.
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Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund established under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
(6) Rules adopted by the department to implement this section may include rules to:
(a) Establish criteria for rebate applicants, including criteria based on:
(A) The size of the applicant’s business; and
(B) Whether the applicant operates within the boundaries of a local government that has
implemented a ban on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers.
(b) Establish a limit on the dollar amount an applicant may receive as rebates in a cal-
endar year.
SECTION 2.
(1) The Commercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund is established in the
State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Com-
mercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) Moneys in the Commercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund shall consist of:
(a) Amounts donated to the fund;
(b) Amounts appropriated or otherwise transferred to the fund by the Legislative As-
sembly;
(c) Other amounts deposited in the fund from any public or private source; and
(d) Interest earned by the fund.
(3) Moneys in the Commercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund are continuously ap-
propriated to the State Department of Energy to carry out the provisions of section 1 of this
2025 Act.
SECTION 3.
No later than December 15 of each year, the State Department of Energy
shall submit a report on the rebate program established under section 1 of this 2025 Act, in
the manner provided by ORS 192.245, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to energy. The report must include the following information for the previous pro-
gram year:
(1) The dollar amount of rebates provided under the program;
(2) The number of battery-powered leaf blowers, new batteries and battery chargers
purchased using rebates under the program;
(3) The number of businesses that received rebates under the program; and
(4) An analysis of the effectiveness of the program.
SECTION 4.
(1) Sections 1 to 3 of this 2025 Act are repealed on January 2, 2031.
(2) Any moneys in the Commercial Landscape Equipment Rebate Fund established under
section 2 of this 2025 Act that are unexpended, unobligated and not subject to any conditions
on the date of the repeal specified in subsection (1) of this section shall revert to the General
Fund.
SECTION 5. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the State Department of Energy, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $2,000,000 for deposit in the Commercial Landscape Equipment
Rebate Fund established under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 6. (1) Section 1 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.
(2) The State Department of Energy may take any action before the operative date
specified in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the department to ex-
ercise, on and after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the
duties, functions and powers conferred on the department by section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 7.
This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
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regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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