Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.

Digest: This Act makes DLCD study placing solar power plants.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: This Act makes DLCD study placing solar power plants.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
• Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
• Relating to: Relating to land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act makes DLCD study placing solar power plants. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities and submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3335
Sponsored by Representative HELM
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 makes DLCD study placing solar power plants. (Flesch Readability Score:
66.1).
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of
renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities and submit
findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to land use no later than
September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to land use siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power gener-
ating facilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Land Conservation and Development shall study land use
siting of renewable energy facilities that are solar photovoltaic power generating facilities
and shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recom-
mendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
land use 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.
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