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SB828 • 2025

Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

Energy
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
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.

Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

Digest: Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
  • Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.
  • Appropriates moneys in the fund to the State Department of Energy to provide state matching funds for federal grant funding for grid resilience projects.

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. 2025-02-21 Senate

    Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  3. 2025-02-21 Senate

    Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.

  4. 2025-02-17 Senate

    Work Session held.

  5. 2025-02-05 Senate

    Public Hearing held.

  6. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Energy and Environment, then Ways and Means.

  7. 2025-01-13 Senate

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

Official Summary Text

Digest: Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the State Department of Energy to provide state matching funds for federal grant funding for grid resilience projects.
Relating to: Relating to grid resilience.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 828
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Governor Tina Kotek for State Department of Energy)
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: Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the State
Department of Energy to provide state matching funds for federal grant funding for grid resilience
projects.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to grid resilience.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Grid Resilience Matching Fund is established in the State Treasury,
separate and distinct from the General Fund. Moneys in the Grid Resilience Matching Fund
shall consist of moneys appropriated or otherwise transferred to the fund by the Legislative
Assembly and other moneys deposited into the fund from any other source.
(2) All moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Department of
Energy for the purposes of providing state matching funds to leverage federal grant funding
for grid resilience projects, and for related administrative costs of the department.
(3) Not later than December 31 of each even-numbered year, the department shall report,
in the manner provided in ORS 192.245, to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to energy regarding the expenditures of moneys in the fund and the status
of grid resilience projects that have received moneys from the fund.
(4) The department may adopt rules necessary for the administration of this section.
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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