Committees · 2025 Regular Session
Energy and Environment
Members
As the committee stood at the end of the term. Each name leads to the member's page.
Janeen SollmanChair
Democrat · 15th District
David Brock SmithVice-chair
Republican · 1st District
Democrat · 3rd District
Democrat · 23rd District
Republican · 2nd District
Bills
Bills sent to the committee in the 2025 Regular Session.
Bills sent88
6% of the bills the Senate sent to committees
Reported out42%
37 of 88; 51 stopped in committee
Time in committee44 days
most between 36 and 66 days
Amendments offered0
committee amendments
In every session
Each session over its whole term. The 2026 is so far.
202612 bills
reported 83% · typically 8 days, most 8–16 · 0 amendments · 5 members
202588 bills
reported 42% · typically 44 days, most 36–66 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20248 bills
reported 63% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
202372 bills
reported 49% · typically 62 days, most 42–80 · 0 amendments · 5 members
20227 bills
reported 100% · too few to say · 0 amendments · 5 members
202167 bills
reported 52% · typically 44 days, most 35–65 · 0 amendments · 5 members
Bills it was sent
Each time a bill was sent to the committee in the 2025 Regular Session, newest first.
88 bills
House Bill 3681 · Requires the Energy Facility Siting Council to conclude a contested case and issue a final order within 12 months from the date of a proposed order.
Sent April 24, 2025 · Reported out after 25 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3546 · Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities.
Sent April 23, 2025 · Reported out after 26 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3729 · Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission or a regional air quality control authority from requiring a person to operate a human or animal crematory incinerator at a temperature greater than 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sent April 23, 2025 · Reported out after 26 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3653 · Defines "energy performance contract" and allows authorized state agencies to enter into energy performance contracts without requiring a competitive procurement if the authorized state agency follows rules that the Attorney General adopts, negotiates a performance guarantee and enters into the contract with a qualified energy service company that the State Department of Energy prequalifies and approves.
Sent April 21, 2025 · Reported out after 21 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3863 · Requires the Public Utility Commission to establish an eligibility cap at no less than 10 megawatts for the use of standard avoided costs rates and contracts for the purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying facilities under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.
Sent April 15, 2025 · Reported out after 22 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3874 · Increases from 50 megawatts to 100 megawatts the minimum size that a wind energy facility needs to be before a wind energy facility is required to obtain a site certificate from the Energy Facility Siting Council.
Sent April 15, 2025 · Reported out after 21 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 3336 · Declares a state policy regarding the electric transmission system.
Sent April 14, 2025 · Reported out after 44 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2375 · Requires a person who is developing or repowering a wind energy facility to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration and, if applicable, the Federal Communications Commission, for approval for the installation and use of light-mitigating technology systems and, if approved, install the systems within 24 months or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
Sent April 10, 2025 · Reported out after 25 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
House Bill 2332 · Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from requiring a Title V operating permit for certain air curtain incinerators.
Sent March 25, 2025 · Reported out after 41 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1187 · Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program as an interagency response to the effects of climate change.
Sent March 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 102 days
House Bill 2567 · Requires an eligible entity that receives a grant under the Heat Pump Deployment Program to agree to use best practices to maintain the security and confidentiality of personal information of individuals who apply for or receive financial assistance under the program from the eligible entity.
Sent March 13, 2025 · Reported out after 41 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 1102 · Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1143 · Directs the Public Utility Commission to establish a pilot program that allows each natural gas company to develop a utility-scale thermal energy network pilot project to provide heating and cooling services to customers.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Reported out after 42 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1145 · Requires the State Department of Energy to study energy.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1160 · Requires the State Department of Energy tostudy developing certain renewable energy projects in this state.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Reported out after 36 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1163 · Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available on fair and reasonable terms to a public body that owns or leases agricultural equipment any documentation, tool, part, embedded software, firmware, data or other device or implement for diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating the agricultural equipment that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1178 · Requires 10 percent of the electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
Sent March 3, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 116 days
Senate Bill 1070 · Requires the Legislative Revenue Officer to study the implementation of incentives to promote hydrogen production.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1080 · Prevents local governments or state agencies from prohibiting natural gas use or other energy options in or availability for new or existing residential or commercial buildings.
Sent February 25, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 122 days
Senate Bill 1062 · Provides that each of the cities of Bandon, North Bend and Reedsport may set charges for water and wastewater services provided by the city by a majority vote of its governing body.
Sent February 21, 2025 · Reported out after 54 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
68 more
Senate Bill 1067 · Authorizes a city within Marion County to control or direct the disposal, transfer or material or energy recovery of solid waste generated within the city.
Sent February 21, 2025 · Reported out after 53 days · then passed the Senate, and not the House of Representatives
Senate Bill 1034 · Removes provisions that allow the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that an energy facility is in compliance with statewide planning goals even when the council determines that the facility does not comply with applicable substantive criteria from the affected local government's land use plan and regulations that the facility must be evaluated against if the council determines that the facility otherwise complies with applicable statewide planning goals.
Sent February 18, 2025 · Reported out after 55 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 1047 · Requires Curry County and the Water Resources Department to expedite review of applications for use on specified lands.
Sent February 18, 2025 · Reported out after 55 days · then passed the Senate, and was vetoed
Senate Bill 1055 · Allows a community solar project to participate in the community solar program irrespective of the project's nameplate capacity or location within this state.
Sent February 18, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 129 days
Senate Bill 1058 · Instructs the State Forestry Department to update a draft habitat conservation plan to increase timber harvest from state forests in western Oregon and submit the updated habitat conservation plan to federal agencies.
Sent February 18, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 129 days
Senate Bill 992 · Authorizes the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to approve one or more alternative access redemption centers.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Reported out after 63 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 994 · Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 995 · Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that the proposed site certificate for the small modular reactor energy facility be submitted to the electors of this state for their approval or rejection.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 996 · Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 997 · Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Sent February 10, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 137 days
Senate Bill 969 · Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Sent February 4, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 143 days
Senate Bill 963 · Directs the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to establish a grant program to facilitate the establishment of a full-service redemption center in each city in this state with a population greater than 10,000.
Sent January 30, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 148 days
Senate Bill 956 · Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide a grant to Heard Farms to expand wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Sent January 28, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 150 days
Senate Bill 877 · Adds additional criteria under which Coos County may approve a golf course on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Sent January 21, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 157 days
Senate Bill 888 · Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting the residential use of natural gas as an energy source.
Sent January 21, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 157 days
Senate Bill 929 · Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to and directs allocation of lottery revenues by the State Parks and Recreation Department to continue to develop, maintain or work toward completion of the Oregon Coast Trail.
Sent January 21, 2025 · Reported out after 69 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 17 · Establishes the eligibility for renewable energy certificates for facilities that generate electricity from the direct combustion of municipal solid waste and became operational before January 1, 1995, if such facilities register with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System at any time, and for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated, per calendar year, from the combustion of biogenic material.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 19 · Modifies vehicle emissions testing exemptions to include motor vehicles and engines with model years that predate the current year by less than six years.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 26 · Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study environmental health.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 43 · Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study waste management.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 88 · Prohibits an electric or gas company from recovering from ratepayers costs or expenses associated with advertising, political influence activity, litigation, penalties or fines and certain compensation.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 70 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 89 · Requires the State Department of Energy to coordinate with other organizations, conduct outreach, establish a statewide navigation and support system and provide information in multiple languages, as part of the department's single resource for providing information and assistance related to available energy efficiency incentives and programs.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 91 · Prohibits fire departments from using firefighting foam containing perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 40 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 92 · Allows a community solar project with a nameplate capacity of five megawatts or less to participate in the community solar program.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 128 · Requires the Public Utility Commission to study electric power.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 139 · Permits sharps and waste pharmaceuticals to be consolidated in a single container, subject to certain requirements.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 80 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 214 · Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 215 · Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 216 · Repeals the requirement that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste before a site certificate for a nuclear-fueled thermal power plant may be issued.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 217 · Requires an electric utility to pay a net metering customer-generator for the excess kilowatt-hours generated during a billing period.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 218 · Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study the impacts of waste from solar or wind renewable energy facilities.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 219 · Modifies the general powers of the Public Utility Commission by removing the commission's general power to balance the interests of the utility investor and the consumer in establishing fair and reasonable rates.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 220 · Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 221 · Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs, and to report on the programs to the Legislative Assembly.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 66 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 222 · Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to monitor the introduction of smallmouth bass into certain rivers and to support programs to eradicate smallmouth bass in certain rivers.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 66 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 301 · Requires the State Marine Board to study issues related to the safe operation of motorboats.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 329 · Requires a distributor cooperative to implement a managed system for reusable beverage containers that achieves certain sales and return rates.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 330 · Directs the Public Utility Commission to adopt standards requiring the underground placement of electric power lines.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 334 · Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to study certain financial impacts of wildfire damages.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 339 · Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the State Forestry Department for purposes related to the plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 66 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 355 · Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a pilot grant program to manage wildfire risk by promoting the use of air curtains by persons that make biochar.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 69 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 359 · Authorizes any person to submit a complaint to the Department of Environmental Quality if the person reasonably believes that a camping site of homeless individuals is causing the discharge of wastes into state waters.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 360 · Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 74 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 369 · Prohibits the Governor and specified state agencies from taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon unless authorized by the Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after the effective date of the Act.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 395 · Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and submit a report on promoting hydrogen fuels in this state to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy not later than September 15, 2026.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 409 · Declares that the policy of this state is to include atmospheric carbon sequestered by the lands and waters of this state in any calculation to determine progress toward the greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 455 · Directs the State Forestry Department to study the economic effects of a certain habitat conservation plan.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 509 · Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission from adopting motor vehicle emission standards to implement California standards requiring that some or all medium- or heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state be zero-emission vehicles.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 510 · Requires the Public Utility Commission to study the rate impacts associated with implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 526 · Prohibits the sale of new clothes washers that are not equipped with a microfiber filtration system, beginning January 1, 2030.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 550 · Adds electric wheelchairs and complex rehabilitation technology to the type of consumer equipment for which an original equipment manufacturer must make available to an owner or independent repair provider a tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining, repairing or updating consumer equipment.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 32 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 551 · Prohibits restaurants and retailers from providing single-use checkout bags to consumers.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 49 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 553 · Requires the State Department of Energy to study data center power usage.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 554 · Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study reusable packaging systems.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 577 · Requires an electric utility to recover costs for storing the waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 88 days · then passed the Senate, and not the House of Representatives
Senate Bill 634 · Specifies that electricity generated by a hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 635 · Directs Oregon State University to conduct a feasibility study on nuclear energy generation in this state.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 679 · Provides that parties that have caused a certain amount of greenhouse gas emissions are strictly liable to harmed parties for damages incurred as a result of extreme weather attributable to climate change or a climate disaster.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 682 · Establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program within the Department of Environmental Quality.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days
Senate Bill 685 · Requires a natural gas utility to provide notice to each customer of the utility and the Public Utility Commission if the utility plans to increase the amount of hydrogen that the utility blends with natural gas and the ratio of the volume of hydrogen to the volume of natural gas will, for the first time, be greater than 2.5 percent.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 89 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 688 · Allows the Public Utility Commission to adopt a framework for carrying out performance-based regulation of electric companies and use incentives and penalties to induce electric companies to bring electric utility operations in line with the public interest and certain objectives.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 69 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 726 · Requires the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill located in Benton County to conduct surface emissions monitoring and report data as specified in the Act.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 80 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 825 · Requires the program for state agency facility energy design to minimize costs of reports to state agencies and minimize duplication of reporting requirements under the energy performance program for covered commercial buildings.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 39 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 827 · Expands the Oregon Solar and Storage Rebate Program to offer rebates for energy storage systems that will be paired at the time of installation with previously purchased and installed solar electric systems.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 39 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 828 · Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 35 days · did not pass the Senate
Senate Bill 833 · Makes certain changes related to label requirements for soil-enhancing products.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 38 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 843 · Removes the requirement that the Public Utility Commission provide a biennial report to the Legislative Assembly on the volumetric incentive rates pilot program.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Reported out after 39 days · then passed the Senate, and became law
Senate Bill 869 · Specifies hours during which dealers must accept returns of beverage containers.
Sent January 17, 2025 · Stopped in committee after 161 days