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SB553 • 2025

Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage.

Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage.

Energy
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Senator Sollman
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 State Department of Energy to study data center power usage.

Digest: Tells ODOE to study data center power usage and give a report on its findings.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells ODOE to study data center power usage and give a report on its findings.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
  • Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Energy and Environment.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells ODOE to study data center power usage and give a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage. Directs the department 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 data center power usage.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 553
Sponsored by Senator SOLLMAN (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: Tells ODOE to study data center power usage and give a report on its findings. (Flesch
Readability Score: 61.8).
Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage. Directs the de-
partment 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 data center power usage.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The State Department of Energy shall study data center power usage. The
department 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 3291