Bills Pending Oregon House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee

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ORHB2686Intro
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The Act gives funding to HECC for a program to re-enroll people into certain programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of providing a grant to an organization that manage...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3027Intro
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Allows the HECC to seek a court order to require career schools to comply with certain laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.1). Permits the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to seek an injunction against a person or career school that is engage...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3028Intro
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Allows the HECC to set fees by rule to pay the cost of reviewing a school's application for approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3). Removes the statutory amounts that the Higher Education Coordinating Commission may charge for determining whether...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2551Intro
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The Act tells a public university to look at data from DPSST about a person who wants to be a campus security officer. The Act says that DPSST can share the data. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the governing board of a public university to...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2997Intro
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The Act requires HECC to create a grant program for college access and success. The Act sets the criteria for a grant to be given. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.0). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a grant program fo...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2586Intro
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The Act allows for in-state higher learning costs for students who are seeking asylum in the U.S. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Permits an asylum seeker who is a student at a public university in this state to receive an exemption from nonresiden...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2404Intro
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This Act tells the State Board of Ed. to make a pilot program to help students access education after high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Requires the State Board of Education, in coordination with Eastern Oregon University, to establish a...
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3219Intro
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The Act gives moneys to HECC for the Oregon Hazards Lab at UO. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.0). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon.
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2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3552Intro
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Allows ESDs to set up regional career centers for regional CTE needs. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Allows education service districts to establish regional career centers to provide career and technical education. Prescribes the purposes of the ...
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2025-02-18
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2441Intro
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The Act keeps a tuition waiver from being reduced by other aid amounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the ...
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2025-02-18
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2747Intro
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The Act would tell the DOC to provide all adults in custody access to some online education. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Corrections to provide adults in custody at all department institutions access to specific onlin...
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2025-02-18
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3446Intro
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Changes how moneys are given to schools for CTE activities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Reallocates how moneys from the Connecting Education to Careers Account for activities related to career and technical education are distributed to schools.
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2025-02-18
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3183Intro
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The Act gives money to HECC for purposes of the OER Program. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.8). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes ...
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2025-02-13
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3182Intro
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Tells the HECC to give money to fund basic needs for higher learning students. Creates a task force on student housing to study student housing needs. Directs the HECC to provide grants to certain organizations that help low-income college students w...
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2025-02-13
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3185Intro
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The Act changes the program for hiring certain students by nonprofits. The Act gives priority to certain types of courses. The Act increases the payback amount to the nonprofits. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs i...
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2025-02-13
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3053Intro
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The Act gives money to HECC for a pilot program at UO for certain students training to work with kids who have certain needs. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Provides moneys to the...
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2025-02-11
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3011Intro
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The Act creates a fund for childhood teaching development at HECC. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropri...
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2025-02-11
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3008Intro
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The Act gives more money to different agencies for investment in the child care workforce. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Appropriates moneys to fund child care workforce investments.
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2025-02-11
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2669Intro
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The Act tells community colleges how to decide the rate at which part-time faculty will be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires community colleges to pay part-time faculty at the same rate, on a per-hour basis, as the community college pa...
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2025-02-06
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2550Intro
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The Act changes the criteria for who may get an Oregon Promise grant. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Changes the requirements to qualify for the Oregon Promise program by removing the requirement that a person must receive the person's highest lev...
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2025-02-04
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2675Intro
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Provides money for an after-school program at OIT. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Institute of Technology for an after-school ...
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2025-01-30
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3109Intro
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The Act gives moneys to HECC for the SCYP at UO. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.3). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Sustain...
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2025-01-30
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2546Intro
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The Act gives money to HECC to give to REAP, Inc., for the Young Entrepreneurs Program. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to REAP, Inc., for th...
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2025-01-30
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3274Intro
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The Act makes new laws for youth career training opportunities. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs. M...
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2025-01-24
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3311Intro
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Removes the limit on the types of degrees that certain higher learning schools may offer. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Removes the limitation on the types of degrees that may be offered by Western Oregon University, Southern Oregon University an...
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2025-01-24
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3272Intro
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Tells colleges to give course credit to an incoming student who took part in certain programs while the student was in high school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Requires a public institution of higher education to award academic credit when an e...
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2025-01-24
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3275Intro
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Tells public higher learning schools not to charge tuition and fees larger than the resident rate for those linked to the armed forces. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.1). Requires public universities and community colleges to charge tuition and fees n...
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2025-01-24
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2708Intro
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The Act would make new laws for workforce development. The Act would transfer workforce development duties from HECC to BOLI. The Act would make a new workforce development program and office at BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Transfers dutie...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2405Intro
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The Act would give money to the DOC for the adults in custody at some prisons in the eastern part of Oregon to get an education. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.0). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections for distribu...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2320Intro
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The Act permits HECC to cancel its approval of a school to give a degree. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Permits the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to cancel the commission's approval of a school to confer any academic degree or provide ...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2649Intro
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The Act lets certain higher learning schools increase their costs without HECC approval. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Permits certain public universities in this state to increase tuition and fees without the approval of the Higher Education Coo...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3025Intro
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Tells the HECC to give money to certain students to help with college costs. (Flesch Readability Score: 83.8). Removes the shared responsibility model by which a qualified student, the student's family, the federal government and the state share the ...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2553Intro
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Allows a person to keep getting an OPP grant for joining any career group before starting school. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Allows a person to continue to qualify for the Oregon Promise program if, after being awarded a grant, the person ente...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3026Intro
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Tells the HECC to study higher learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to submit findings to the interim committ...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3129Intro
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The Act creates a behavioral health workforce fund for higher learning. The Act provides for the purposes and uses of moneys in the fund. Declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.4). Establishes ...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3006Intro
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The Act would create ways to increase diversity in the education workforce in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for various purposes related to increasing the represe...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3213Intro
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The Act applies public records laws to higher learning bodies. The Act tells higher learning bodies to post certain annual reports. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires t...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2877Intro
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This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the construction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2715Intro
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Allows for all public higher learning schools to offer PhDs that are approved by the HECC. Limits certain public higher learning schools to five PhD programs until 2044. Blocks public money to be used for aid to students at certain higher learning sc...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2371Intro
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The Act keeps a tuition waiver from being reduced by other aid amounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Prohibits the amount of tuition that is waived for qualified students from being reduced by the amount of specified student aid received by the ...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2699Intro
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The Act directs HECC to study nurse teacher pay. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.9). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation in this state. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim commi...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2841Intro
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The Act requires that a higher learning school must offer a certain amount of credit hours taught by full-time employees. The Act sets the amount by academic year. The Act tells each school to give HECC certain information. The Act tells HECC to repo...
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2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 8:00 am]
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2539Intro
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Tells the HECC to create a plan that allows students at community colleges to earn credits from certain training programs. Tells the HECC to give a report on the plan to the legislature. Ends the plan on January 2, 2027. Declares an emergency and tak...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2389Intro
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The Act limits higher learning schools in this state from increasing the number of their students by more than five percent each year. The Act requires each school to refer applications they receive in excess of the limit to specified schools. (Flesc...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB3030Intro
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Allows the HECC to give money to certain school leader candidates. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Authorizes the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to culturally and linguistically diverse school administrator candidates to u...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2719Intro
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The Act creates a program to provide money for higher learning students. The Act requires students to repay the program for receiving money. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). Establishes the Guaranteed Opportunity Program. Requires the Office of Stud...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2458Intro
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Tells HECC to study reporting requirements by higher learning schools in this state. Tells HECC to create a plan to reduce the number of reports. (Flesch Readability Score: 81.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a stu...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2705Intro
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Tells the HECC to study how much money the state should get for each patent a college gets after receiving public money. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with public universities...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2421Intro
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The Act adds private higher learning schools to the direct admissions program created by HECC. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Includes independent institutions in the direct admissions program established by the Higher Education Coordinating Commi...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
ORHB2695Intro
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The Act directs the OHSU board to include certain people in the process to hire a president. The Act directs the board to let campus union representatives talk to the board. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.8). Requires the Oregon Health and Science Uni...
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2025-01-17
To House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee
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