SB395 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.

Energy

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.

Digest: The Act directs OBDD to create report on promoting use of hydrogen fuel in this state.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act directs OBDD to create report on promoting use of hydrogen fuel in this state.
(Flesch Readability Score: 74.2).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.

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, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs OBDD to create report on promoting use of hydrogen fuel in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state 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 hydrogen.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 395
Sponsored by Senator GIROD (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: The Act directs OBDD to create report on promoting use of hydrogen fuel in this state.
(Flesch Readability Score: 74.2).
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on pro-
moting hydrogen fuels in this state 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 hydrogen.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall prepare a report on
how it may support the state’s transition to green energy by promoting the production, dis-
tribution and end use of hydrogen fuels in this state.
(2) The department shall submit the report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related 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 2172