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HB3864 • 2025

Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure.

Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure.

Energy
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Climate, Energy, and Environment,
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 Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure.

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on electrical infrastructure.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on electrical infrastructure.
  • Makes the PUC give a report on its findings.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8).
  • Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure.

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. 2025-03-04 House

    Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on electrical infrastructure. Makes the PUC give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure. Directs the commission 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 electrical infrastructure.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3864
Sponsored by Representative SMITH G
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 the PUC do a study on electrical infrastructure. Makes the PUC give a report
on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electrical infrastructure. Directs the commis-
sion 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 electrical infrastructure.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Public Utility Commission shall study electrical infrastructure. The
commission 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 energy 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 3620