l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 329

Requires a distributor cooperative to implement a managed system for reusable beverage containers that achieves certain sales and return rates.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Energy and Environment 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 a cooperative and retail stores to expand the use of reusable cans or bottles. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires a distributor cooperative to implement a managed system for reusable beverage containers that achieves certain sales and return rates. Requires certain beverage container dealers to provide shelf space for reusable beverage containers.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

In the House of Representatives

    1 co-sponsor

    Mark Gamba

    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 action3 actions on 3 days

    In the SenateJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days

    Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

    Energy and EnvironmentJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 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 Senate Jan 13 – Jun 27

    1. Jan 13Introduced
    2. Jan 17Sent to Energy and Environment
    3. Jun 27Died when the session ended
    All 3 actions, as published
    1. Jan 13Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
    2. Jan 17Referred to Energy and Environment.Senate
    3. Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate