HB3743 • 2025

Requires a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days of backup power.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Helfrich
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 a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days of backup power.

Digest: Makes a radio tower have a backup power system that can provide power for two weeks.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes a radio tower have a backup power system that can provide power for two weeks.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days of backup power.
Relating to: Relating to emergency backup power for radio towers.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-27 House
Referred to Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans.
2025-02-25 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes a radio tower have a backup power system that can provide power for two weeks. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days of backup power.
Relating to: Relating to emergency backup power for radio towers.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3743
Sponsored by Representative HELFRICH
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 a radio tower have a backup power system that can provide power for two weeks.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires a radio tower to have an emergency backup power system that can provide 14 days
of backup power.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to emergency backup power for radio towers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “radio tower” means a lattice tower that is
generally 60 to 200 feet tall with three or four steel support legs, or a monopole that is gen-
erally 25 to 125 feet tall, to which multiple antennae or other equipment may be attached to
accommodate a variety of communication services, including radio communications service,
radio paging and cellular communications service.
(2) A person who owns or operates a radio tower shall maintain an emergency backup
power system that can provide emergency backup power for the radio tower for at least 14
days. The emergency backup power system must be able to operate in the event of a natural
disaster or inclement weather.
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 3669