l9n/ Oregon

2016 Regular Session

House Bill 4036

Requires each electric company providing electricity to retail electricity consumers located in this state to eliminate coal-fired resources from electric company's electricity supply.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Health Care Committee on March 3, 2016. The 2016 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Requires each electric company providing electricity to retail electricity consumers located in this state to eliminate coal-fired resources from electric company's electricity supply. Changes compliance requirements for renewable portfolio standards. Makes other changes to provisions setting forth renewable portfolio standards. <b>Requires, by 2035, eight percent of retail electrical load of electric company to come from certain small-scale renewable energy projects or biomass generating facilities that generate thermal energy for secondary purpose.</b> Directs Public Utility Commission to establish stranded costs obligation associated with condemnation of or transaction related to service territory or property of electric company. <i>Directs commission to allow, in public bidding process for procurement of renewable energy generating facility, inclusion of value of long-term access to and use of facility beyond time at which facility is fully depreciated.</i>] <i>Directs commission to establish means by which electric company may track, and credit or charge customers for, difference between state or federal production tax credits included in rates charged by electric company and actual production tax credits received by electric company.</i>] Requires each electric company to file applications with commission for programs to accelerate transportation electrification. Allows return of and return on investment made by electric company for purposes of programs. Directs commission to establish program for creation of community solar projects. Repeals minimum solar energy capacity standard for electric companies. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Its course

January 27 to March 3, 2016, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action22 actions on 15 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 27 to Feb 1519 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 27 to Feb 15 days

Energy and EnvironmentFeb 1 to Feb 1110 days

In the SenateFeb 15 to Mar 3 · stopped17 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 15 to Feb 161 day

Business and TransportationFeb 16 to Feb 2913 days

Health CareMar 2 to Mar 3 · stopped1 day

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • House of Representatives, third reading39–20

    Passed · Feb 15 · 1 present

  • Health Care28–0

    Mar 2 · 2 present

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 11

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 29

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 27 – Feb 15

  1. Filed before the session
  2. Introduced
  3. Sent to Energy and Environment
  4. Heard in Energy and Environment
  5. Heard in Energy and Environment
  6. Heard in Energy and Environment
  7. Heard in Energy and Environment
  8. Energy and Environment recommended it as amended
  9. Read a second time
  10. Read a third time
  11. Passed the House of Representatives, 39 to 20

In the Senate Feb 16 – Mar 3

  1. Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to Business and Transportation
  3. Heard in Business and Transportation
  4. Heard in Business and Transportation
  5. Business and Transportation recommended it as amended
  6. Read a second time
  7. Sent to Health Care
  8. Died when the session ended
All 22 actions, as published