l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 3539

Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to contract with a third party to study and determine a greenhouse gas reporting emissions factor for electricity purchased from unspecified sources.

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

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

Digest: This Act tells the EQC to get a third party to study and make an emissions factor for electricity bought from unknown sources. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires the Environmental Quality Commission to contract with a third party to study and determine a greenhouse gas reporting emissions factor for electricity purchased from unspecified sources. Requires the commission to update rules establishing the emissions factor no later than January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

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

Its course

February 11 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 action7 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 11 to Jun 27 · stopped136 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 11 to Feb 121 day

Climate, Energy, and EnvironmentFeb 12 to Apr 1461 days

Ways and MeansApr 14 to Jun 27 · stopped74 days

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 Feb 11 – Jun 27

  1. Feb 11Introduced
  2. Feb 12Sent to Climate, Energy, and Environment
  3. Apr 3Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
  4. Apr 8Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
  5. Apr 14Climate, Energy, and Environment recommended it, and that it go to Ways and Means
  6. Sent to Ways and Means
  7. Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
  1. Feb 11First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  2. Feb 12Referred to Climate, Energy, and Environment with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
  3. Apr 3Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  4. Apr 8Work Session held.House of Representatives
  5. Apr 14Recommendation: Do pass and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  6. Apr 14Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
  7. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives