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HB3662 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Energy to study clean energy.

Requires the State Department of Energy to study clean energy.

Energy
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Gamba
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 State Department of Energy to study clean energy.

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on clean energy and submit a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on clean energy and submit a report on its findings.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
  • Requires the State Department of Energy to study clean energy.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy 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. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.

  3. 2025-02-25 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study on clean energy and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study clean energy. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to clean energy project requests for proposals.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3662
Sponsored by Representative GAMBA
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: Makes ODOE do a study on clean energy and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch
Readability Score: 67.5).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study clean energy. Directs the department to
submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later
than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to clean energy project requests for proposals.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Energy shall study clean energy. The department
shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to en-
ergy 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 2406