Oregon legislation · 2026 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB4060: Relating to fluorescent lamps; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, April 6, 2026
Digest: This Act says that sales of fluorescent lamps to buyers with large buildings are not banned until 2030. The Act says that some care facilities do not have to submit plans to replace lamps that are banned until 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). [ Digest: This Act says that sales of fluorescent lamps to buyers with large buildings are not banned until 2030. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). ] Exempts sales to purchasers with facilities totaling more than one million square feet from a prohibition on sales of certain fluorescent lamps until January 1, 2030. Exempts residential care facilities and long term care facilities from the requirement to submit for review plans to replace light fixtures designed to use prohibited fluorescent lamps. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, March 4, 2026:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2026 Regular Session House Bill 4060 Sponsored by Representative HELFRICH, Senator ANDERSON; Representatives LEVY B, LEVY E, OWENS, RESCHKE, Senator STARR (Presession filed.) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to fluorescent lamps; creating new provisions; amending ORS 459.485 and 459.488; repealing section 3, chapter 195, Oregon Laws 2025, and section 23, chapter , Oregon Laws 2026 (Enrolled House Bill 4066); and declaring an emergency. SECTION 1. ORS 459.485 is amended to read: 459.485. (1) As used in this section and ORS 459.488, "compact fluorescent lamp" and "linear fluorescent lamp" have the meanings given those terms in the California Health and Safety Code, Division 104, Part 3, chapter 16, section 109020, as in effect on September 24, 2023. [(2) On or after January 1, 2024, a person may not sell, offer to sell or distribute in or into this state a screw- or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent lamp as a new manufactured product.] [(3) On or after January 1, 2025, a person may not sell, offer to sell or distribute in or into this state a pin-base type compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp as a new manufactured product.] (2) A person may not sell, offer to sell or distribute in or into this state, as a new manufactured product, a linear fluorescent lamp or a pin-, screw- or …