Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the rate impacts from the required reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and submit a report.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the rate impacts from the required reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and submit a report.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
• Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
• Directs the commission to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the rate impacts from the required reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021). Directs the commission to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to utility rate impacts.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 510
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 PUC do a study on the rate impacts from the required reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions and submit a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing
the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021). Directs the commis-
sion to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy
no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to utility rate impacts.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Public Utility Commission shall study the rate impacts associated with
implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021)
(ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475). 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 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.
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