MCAT-Climate.org – 2026 Legislative Lookback – April 4, 2026
Please see full Lookback document here
Enacted into law (Signed by the Governor!!)
● CEI Hub Risk Bonding: (HB 4100) Requires all regulated facilities to certify financial assurance.
● Solar Consumer Protection: (HB 4029) Prescribes certain statements and disclosures from solar providers to consumers.
Passed out of Committee in one chamber and referred to Joint Ways & Means (Died at adjournment in Ways & Means)
● Climate Resilience Superfund: (SB 1541) Requires large fossil fuel companies to pay retroactive damages caused by anthropogenic climate change.
● CEI Hub Fuels Diversification: (HB 4032) Requires the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) to provide a report on geographically dispersed locations with the potential of storing emergency fuel reserves.
● Get the Data for a Better Road User Charge (RUC): (HB 4126) Requires ODOT to report the total biennial cost of maintenance and preservation for the state’s road system, and to report the total mileage driven. This data could later be used to calculate the RUC.
● Transit Funding Task Force: (HB 4008A) To determine the level of funding needed to maintain adequate transit service statewide and explore funding mechanisms to achieve that funding.
Had a public hearing and a work session, but no committee vote (Died in committee at adjournment.)
● Inclusive Utility Investment: (SB 1588) Investor-Owned Utilities will provide loans for energy efficiency and strategic electrification without additional burden to the General Fund or ratepayers on a pilot basis.
● Guardrails for Good Governance: (SB 1543) Adopts a transportation debt management policy with better transparency. Improve public input process for the Oregon Transportation Commission.
Had a public hearing, but no work session (Died in committee at adjournment.)
● Balcony (Plug-In) Solar: (HB 4080) Clarify how small, simple, plug-in solar installations can reduce residential & small business electricity bills.
● Community-Based Power: (SB 1582) Requires electrical utilities to develop a program that will allow small sources of electricity generation and storage to join and be compensated for providing additional power resilience and lowering peak power costs for all users.
● Measure What We Drive: (SB 1542) Performance-based scoring system to allocate road project funding, to include safety, climate and emissions. Annual Report Card.
Lookback Criteria – Inclusion for bills that
● Efforts that resulted in a bill #, not just an Legislative Concept.
● Published in an MCAT Outlook after session start.
● Where 2 bills merged into 1, only the final merged bill is listed.