HB3598 • 2025

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Andersen
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 electric vehicles.

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on electric vehicles.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on electric vehicles.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles.
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

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-20 House
Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.
2025-02-18 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act requires the DEQ to study and make a report on electric vehicles. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles. 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 electric vehicles.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3598
Sponsored by Representative ANDERSEN
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 electric vehicles. (Flesch
Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study electric vehicles. 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 electric vehicles.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Environmental Quality shall study electric vehicles. 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.
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