| OR | SB401 | Intro
25% | Sends more money to schools for students who are in poverty. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3). Increases the weight allotted for children in poverty for purposes of State School Fund distributions. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB977 | Intro
25% | Tells the HECC to create a college program for youth with certain disabilities. Sets forth the needs for the program. Givers money to the HECC for the program. Creates a task force to look into possible law changes to improve the experience of studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB784 | Intro
25% | The Act includes certain subjects in the state's dual credit programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.9). Specifies that the statewide standards for dual credit programs include programs in agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB786 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB978 | Intro
25% | Requires school districts and ESDs to prepare a report about legal acts occurring during the school year. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires school districts and education service districts to prepare an annual report of the legal processes i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB785 | Intro
25% | The Act creates a scholarship program for ag teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.5). Establishes the Agriculture Education Scholarship Program to provide free tuition and fees for qualifying agriculture education students in exchange for the stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1157 | Intro
25% | Directs ODE to study methods for improving the safety of the schools of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving safety in the public schools of this state. Directs the departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB302 | Intro
25% | Directs ODE to study the state of education in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.6). Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of public education in this state for kindergarten through grade 12. Directs the department to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1193 | Intro
25% | The Act allows a higher learning school to pay a student athlete for use of the student's NIL. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.7). Permits a post-secondary institution of education to provide compensation to a student athlete for use of the student ath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB306 | Intro
25% | Tells the HECC to study college learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the commission to submit findings to interim committees of the Legislative Assembly r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB544 | Intro
25% | The Act requires vaping detectors to be installed in certain high schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have 1,000 or more enrolled students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB141 | Intro
25% | Directs ODE to study ways to improve the outcomes of the public schools of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Requires the Department of Education to study methods for increasing the accountability of the public education system of this st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB981 | Intro
25% | Increases the age that a student may go to school for public education. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Increases the maximum age under which a student may receive a public education. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB717 | Intro
25% | The Act directs HECC to create a pilot program that gives money to student teachers. The Act sunsets on January 2, 2028. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a pilot program to provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB310 | Intro
25% | Lets one party ask for a fact finder for an education labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires only one party to file a petition for a fact finder if the public employer is a public education employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB970 | Intro
25% | Limits when students may be placed in remote or online learning programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Provides that enrollment in a remote learning program or an online learning program is voluntary. Provides exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB980 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the DAS to study and develop a list of standardized job profiles for unlicensed school jobs in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study and develop a list of standard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB738 | Intro
25% | The Act makes changes to the requirements for foster children to get a tuition waiver. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Changes the age limit and the required period during which certain foster children were in care to be eligible to receive tuition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB207 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the BOC to make rules to let a person who has a provisional certificate do supervised work. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Directs the Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow the holder of a provisional certificate to perform in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB541 | Intro
25% | The Act says that schools have to teach computer science classes to students in all grades. (Flesch Readability Score: 84.8). Requires school district boards to ensure all schools offer computer science education in all grades. Includes computer scie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB5 | Intro
25% | The Act directs higher learning schools to have a policy that requires certain teachers to have obtained at least a master's degree. The Act provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires the governing board of each public univer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1109 | Intro
25% | Tells ODE to do an audit of the tests given to kindergarteners. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Requires the Department of Education to conduct an audit of assessments administered to kindergarteners in public schools. Directs the department to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB396 | Intro
25% | Tells public colleges to create one form for admission to any public college in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Requires public universities to establish a common application for undergraduate admission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB456 | Intro
25% | Provides money for grants to improve school attendance. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Appropriates moneys to the Department of Education for distribution as grants to address the causes of chronic absenteeism. Declares an emergency, effective Jul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB314 | Intro
25% | The Act tells the TSPC and EAC to create a plan for people to become licensed as educators in different ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the Educator Advancement Council to jointly dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB323 | Intro
25% | The Act makes some education entities take certain steps when contracting for a substitute teacher. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Requires a school district and education service district to conduct a cost analysis before extending, renewing or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB742 | Intro
25% | Allows a parent or foster parent to agree to have a meeting by phone or online to discuss placing a student on a short school day program. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Allows a student's parent or foster parent to consent to attending an initial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB735 | Intro
25% | Does not apply short school day program standards to a student in a public charter school when certain conditions are met. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Provides that abbreviated school day program requirements do not apply to students in public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB315 | Intro
25% | Tells ODE to take actions about how school districts record and respond to student absences. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Directs the Department of Education to review and make recommendations related to the recording of student absences and how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB745 | Intro
25% | Allows the parent or foster parent of a student who is very ill to request to meet no more than once a year to review the student's short school day program. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows the parent or foster parent of a terminally ill stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB322 | Intro
25% | The Act would change the law in several ways to support substitute teachers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Directs the Department of Education to enter into a contract with a third party to develop and offer online professional deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB472 | Intro
25% | Allows an ESD board to decide whether a school board has violated a requirement regarding actual conflicts. The Act allows the school board to ask the SBE to make a final decision. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Authorizes an education service dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1126 | Intro
25% | Requires students to be provided with recess time each day. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Requires public elementary school students to be provided with recess time each day. Prohibits the withholding of recess or the imposition of physical activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB231 | Intro
25% | The Act gives money to HECC to give to a group to improve campus resilience. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.8). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Oregon Campus Resilience ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB581 | Intro
25% | The Act tells OHA to give money to some psychologists and some psychology students who take a type of class. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Creates the psychology provider incentive program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide financial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1127 | Intro
25% | Allows ODE to award grants for activities at Title I schools during recess, lunch or after school. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes the Department of Education to expend moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB312 | Intro
25% | Directs ODE to create and use a method for electronic student data. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a standardized method to be used by school districts, education service districts and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB749 | Intro
25% | Creates a pilot program for students to be involved in the making of a school district budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program that provides for participatory budgeting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB983 | Intro
25% | The Act lets local officials act on certain budgets after saying they have a conflict. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Permits local public officials to participate in discussion and debate and to vote on the adoption of a local budget that include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB443 | Intro
25% | The Act says to give some moneys to the HECC to give to OHSU to help a family medicine residency program. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to the Area Health Educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | HB3063 | Engross
50% | Considers a student who is in a hospital program to be enrolled in the student's school district. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Provides that a student who is in a hospital educational program shall continue to remain enrolled in the school distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB982 | Intro
25% | The Act sets forth standards for a school district to be allowed to place a student in another state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2). Authorizes school districts to use public funds for out-of-state placement of students only if specified criteria ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB324 | Intro
25% | Moves certain duties, functions and powers of state education from TSPC and EAC to ODE. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). Transfers certain duties, functions and powers related to teaching, administrative and personnel licensure from the Teacher Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB979 | Intro
25% | The Act tells HECC to study higher learning for people with a disability. The Act declares an emergency and becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct a st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB905 | Intro
25% | Removes the need for extra reports under a Healthy and Safe Schools Plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Eliminates reporting redundancies required under a Healthy and Safe Schools Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | SB1098 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the exclusion of certain school books based on the topic or author of the book. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Prohibits discrimination when selecting or retaining school library materials, textbooks or instructional materials or when de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | HB2586 | Engross
50% | 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 or Oregon Health and Science University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | HB3028 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | HB2682 | Engross
50% | The Act tells ODE to create an advisory committee to study services for young children with special needs. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Directs the Department of Education to establish an advisory committee to study and develop recommendations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| OR | HB3027 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
