SB334 • 2025

Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages.

Digest: Makes the DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes the DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages.
Directs the DCBS to submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Energy and Environment.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the DCBS to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to damages incurred as a result of wildfire.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 334
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
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 DCBS do a study on financial impacts of wildfire damages. Directs the DCBS
to submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts
of wildfire damages. Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to natural resources not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to damages incurred as a result of wildfire.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Consumer and Business Services shall study the im-
pact of wildfire damages on:
(a) The cost of, and access to, capital and insurance for electric utilities;
(b) The affordability of electricity for electric utility customers;
(c) The long-term solvency of electric utilities in Oregon; and
(d) The long-term capacity of electric utilities to deliver electricity in Oregon.
(2) The department shall submit a report on the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to natural resources 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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