Scope
Oregon House Bill 3698 (2025 regular session), as introduced, would have required each data center, as defined in ORS 308.505, to report its quarterly water use to the Water Resources Department and its electricity use to the State Department of Energy, required the Department of Energy to publish summaries on a website, and directed the Environmental Quality Commission to adopt emissions standards for standby generators used at data centers. The official history records it in the House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee upon adjournment on 27 June 2025; it did not become law.
- Geographic scope
- Oregon
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Oregon Legislative Assembly
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Never took effect (did not pass)
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- 27 June 2025
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Oregon HB 3698 (2025) would have required data centers to report quarterly water and electricity use to state agencies, with public summaries, and would have directed the Environmental Quality Commission to set emissions standards for data center standby generators. It remained in the House Climate, Energy, and Environment Committee when the 2025 regular session adjourned on 27 June 2025 and did not become law.
What this does not establish
- Only the introduced text and the official measure history were opened.
- The failure day is the history entry "In committee upon adjournment" dated 6-27 in the 2025 regular session history.
- It created no reporting duty or generator standard.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3698/Introduced