republic-os/legislation/us/states/or/2025r1/sb-688.md

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Bill	Relating to performance-based regulation of electric utilities.	</b> </i>] 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. Declares a public interest for purposes of the Act. [<i>Appropriates moneys to the commission for implementing performance-based regulations.</i>] <b>Limits expenditures from certain moneys collected or received by the commission for the purposes of carrying out performance-based regulation of electric companies.</b>	us/states/or	Oregon Legislative Assembly	2025R1	SB 688	Oregon SB 688 (2025R1)	bill		enacted	Jeff Golden Khanh Pham	8	25	4	2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00	2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/719ec94a-ae58-47b6-9116-a449d5ba75da	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB688	907d68fc0d02a32a52ddc2bdb55e961981684129263ae8d2e175701b73c0e757	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-or

Oregon SB 688 (2025R1) — Relating to performance-based regulation of electric utilities.

] 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. Declares a public interest for purposes of the Act. [Appropriates moneys to the commission for implementing performance-based regulations.] Limits expenditures from certain moneys collected or received by the commission for the purposes of carrying out performance-based regulation of electric companies.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Senate Amendments to Introduced (filed) — source
3. A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. B-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. JWM Amendment -A7 (committee substitute) — source
6. SEE Amendment -5 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendments to A-Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 34–12 (pass) · legislature
• Third reading. Carried by Pham. Passed. — 19–10 (pass) · upper
• Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Third reading. Carried by Gamba. Passed. — 36–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeff Golden — primary (person)
• Khanh Pham — primary (person)
• Courtney Neron Misslin — cosponsor (person)
• James Manning Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Gamba — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Meek — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan Sosa — cosponsor (person)
• Pam Marsh — cosponsor (person)
• Tom Andersen — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Willy Chotzen — cosponsor (person)
• Wlnsvey Campos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-13T17:07:30+00:00 Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00 Referred to Energy and Environment, then Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T22:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-03-17T22:01:00+00:00 Public Hearing held.
• 2025-03-24T22:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-03-27T22:17:55+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. (Printed A-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27T22:17:56+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23T21:47:00+00:00 Assigned to Subcommittee On Natural Resources. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11T21:33:00+00:00 Returned to Full Committee.
• 2025-06-11T21:32:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-17T15:02:00+00:00 Work Session held.
• 2025-06-19T22:43:31+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-20T20:01:33+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-23T18:27:36+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Pham. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-23T18:28:36+00:00 Vote explanation(s) filed by Sollman.
• 2025-06-23T22:48:28+00:00 First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23T23:09:35+00:00 Referred to Ways and Means. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25T17:32:43+00:00 Recommendation: Do pass. committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-26T01:29:22+00:00 Second reading. reading-2
• 2025-06-26T21:40:13+00:00 Third reading. Carried by Gamba. Passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-27T22:58:40+00:00 President signed. passage
• 2025-06-28T04:01:10+00:00 Speaker signed. passage
• 2025-07-17T17:03:00+00:00 Governor signed. executive-signature
• 2025-07-25T17:09:25+00:00 Chapter 538, 2025 Laws.
• 2025-07-25T17:17:50+00:00 Effective date, January 1, 2026.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/719ec94a-ae58-47b6-9116-a449d5ba75da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).