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HB2288 • 2025

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology.

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology.

Technology
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology.

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on clean technology.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on clean technology.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
  • Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on clean technology. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to clean technology.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2288
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade for Representative Daniel Nguyen)
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 as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on clean technology. (Flesch
Readability Score: 71.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study clean technology. Directs the de-
partment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the
environment not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to clean technology.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Environmental Quality shall study clean technology. The
department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to the environment no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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.
LC 3353