HB3888 • 2025

Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before June 30, 2026, adopt rules allowing temporary housing for the construction of solar power generation facilities.

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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

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Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before June 30, 2026, adopt rules allowing temporary housing for the construction of solar power generation facilities.

Digest: This Act requires LCDC to adopt rules for siting homes for builders of solar energy plants.

What This Bill Does

Digest: This Act requires LCDC to adopt rules for siting homes for builders of solar energy plants.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.3).
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before June 30, 2026, adopt rules allowing temporary housing for the construction of solar power generation facilities.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

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: This Act requires LCDC to adopt rules for siting homes for builders of solar energy plants. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3).
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before June 30, 2026, adopt rules allowing temporary housing for the construction of solar power generation facilities.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to solar power generation facilities; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3888
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: This Act requires LCDC to adopt rules for siting homes for builders of solar energy
plants. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.3).
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to, on or before June 30, 2026,
adopt rules allowing temporary housing for the construction of solar power generation facilities.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to solar power generation facilities; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
On or before June 30, 2026, the Land Conservation and Development Com-
mission shall adopt rules allowing on-site and off-site temporary workforce housing to be
sited with solar photovoltaic power generation facilities, as appropriate for the construction
of such facilities and consistent with rules allowing housing sited with wind power generation
facilities, to the extent practicable.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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