SB1151 • 2025

Requires the Public Utility Commission to study investor-owned utilities.

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Prozanski
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate 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 investor-owned utilities.

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on power companies and submit a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on power companies and submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study investor-owned utilities.
Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-03-03 Senate
Referred to Judiciary.
2025-02-27 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on power companies and submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study investor-owned utilities. 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 investor-owned utilities.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1151
Sponsored by Senator PROZANSKI
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 power companies and submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 68.9).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study investor-owned utilities. 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.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to investor-owned utilities.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Public Utility Commission shall study investor-owned utilities. 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 4322