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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 415
Sponsored by Senator WOODS, Representative MCLAIN (at the request of Forth) (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act tells the DEQ to study and make a report on incentives for vehicles with zero
emissions. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to study zero-emission vehicle incentives.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to zero-emission vehicle incentives.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall study zero-emission vehicle
incentives. The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to the environment no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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