HB3869 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy.

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Levy E
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy.

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study with the PUC on energy procurement.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study with the PUC on energy procurement.
Makes ODOE submit a report on its finding.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-04 House
Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment.
2025-02-27 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes ODOE do a study with the PUC on energy procurement. Makes ODOE submit a report on its finding. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission, to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy. 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 energy procurement.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3869
Sponsored by Representative LEVY E
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 with the PUC on energy procurement. Makes ODOE submit a
report on its finding. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires the State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility Commission,
to study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy. 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 energy procurement.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Public Utility
Commission, shall study the benefits of a central energy procurement policy. 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.
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