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HB3308 • 2025

Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031.

Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Evans
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 certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031.

Digest: The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply.
  • The Act also says that governments must use renewable diesel fuel.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
  • Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031.

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. 2025-01-24 House

    Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans with subsequent referral to Transportation.

  3. 2025-01-21 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply. The Act also says that governments must use renewable diesel fuel. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031. Requires all state and local government facilities to use renewable diesel for all diesel fuel requirements beginning in 2028.
Relating to: Relating to fuel.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3308
Sponsored by Representative EVANS
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: The Act says that certain government facilities must keep a three-week fuel supply. The
Act also says that governments must use renewable diesel fuel. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Requires certain strategically important state and local government facilities to maintain a
three-week fuel supply beginning in 2031. Requires all state and local government facilities to use
renewable diesel for all diesel fuel requirements beginning in 2028.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fuel.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Department of Emergency Management shall identify facili-
ties owned or operated by the state government, as defined in ORS 174.111, or a local gov-
ernment, as defined in ORS 174.116, that currently store fuel and that are of strategic
importance for emergency response.
(2) On and after January 1, 2031, facilities identified under subsection (1) of this section
shall store and maintain fuel sufficient for at least three weeks of normal usage.
SECTION 2. Cities with a population of at least 50,000 people shall report their plans to
comply with section 1 of this 2025 Act to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management
on or before January 1, 2027.
SECTION 3. (1) All facilities owned or operated by the state government or a local gov-
ernment shall use renewable diesel for all diesel fuel requirements.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Local government” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.116.
(b) “Renewable diesel” means a hydrocarbon that is derived from biomass and that is
chemically equivalent to petroleum diesel fuel.
(c) “State government” has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.111.
SECTION 4.
Section 3 of this 2025 Act becomes operative on January 1, 2028.
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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