l9n/ Oregon

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 577

Requires an electric utility to recover costs for storing the waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Climate, 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: Makes a power provider recoup the costs to store the waste made from making electric power. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires an electric utility to recover costs for storing the waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity. Requires a person who develops an energy facility to disclose the costs of storing the waste produced by the energy facility in generating electricity. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

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 10 days

In the SenateJan 13 to Apr 1794 days

Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days

Energy and EnvironmentJan 17 to Apr 1588 days

In the House of RepresentativesApr 17 to Jun 27 · stopped71 days

Waiting for a committeeApr 17 to Apr 236 days

Climate, Energy, and EnvironmentApr 23 to Jun 27 · stopped65 days

Votes

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

  • Senate, third reading18–10

    Passed · Apr 17 · 2 present

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 – Apr 17

  1. Introduced
  2. Sent to Energy and Environment
  3. Heard in Energy and Environment
  4. Heard in Energy and Environment
  5. Energy and Environment recommended it
  6. Read a second time
  7. Passed the Senate, 18 to 10

In the House of Representatives Apr 17 – Jun 27

  1. Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to Climate, Energy, and Environment
  3. Heard in Climate, Energy, and Environment
  4. Died when the session ended
All 12 actions, as published