l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 2961

Specifies, for newly constructed buildings within a metropolitan jurisdiction, the percentage of electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles or electric vehicle charging stations that must be installed at vehicle parking spaces in the garages or parking areas of commercial buildings, multifamily buildings with 10 or more units and mixed-use buildings consisting of privately owned commercial space and 10 or more residential dwelling units.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Rules Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: Sets the percentage of parking spaces in some new buildings that must have what is needed to charge electric cars. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).</b> [<i>Digest: Increases the number of parking spaces in some new buildings that must have what is needed to charge electric cars. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).</i>] [<i>Increases</i>]<b> Specifies, for newly constructed buildings within a metropolitan jurisdiction,</b> the percentage of electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles or electric vehicle charging stations that must be installed at vehicle parking spaces in the garages or parking areas of [<i>newly constructed</i>] commercial buildings, multifamily buildings with [<i>five</i>]<b> 10</b> or more units and mixed-use buildings consisting of privately owned commercial space and [<i>five</i>]<b> 10</b> or more residential dwelling units.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

4 co-sponsors

Hoa Nguyen, Ken Helm, Tom Andersen, Jules Walters

In the Senate

    2 co-sponsors

    Chris Gorsek, Khanh Pham

    Its course

    January 13 to June 27, 2025, 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 action12 actions on 12 days

    In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

    Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

    Climate, Energy, and EnvironmentJan 17 to Apr 1487 days

    RulesApr 21 to Jun 27 · stopped67 days

    Amendments

    Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

    • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

      Adopted Apr 14

    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 13 – Jun 27

    1. Introduced
    2. Sent to Climate, Energy, and Environment
    3. Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
    4. Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
    5. Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
    6. Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
    7. Climate, Energy, and Environment recommended it as amended
    8. Read a second time
    9. Sent to Rules
    10. Died when the session ended
    All 12 actions, as published