Bill Text: OR HB2307 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to special education services delivered by education service districts.

Sponsorship: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2307 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2307-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 2558

                         House Bill 2307

Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5).
  Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on
  Education)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires education service district and component school
districts to include information related to special education
services in annual report to State Board of Education.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to special education services delivered by education
  service districts; amending ORS 334.125.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 334.125 is amended to read:
  334.125. (1) The education service district is a body
corporate.
  (2) The education service district board is authorized to
transact all business coming within the jurisdiction of the
education service district and may sue and be sued.
  (3) The education service district board shall perform all
duties required by law, including but not limited to:
  (a) Distribution of such school funds as it is empowered to
apportion;
  (b) Conduct of audits;
  (c) Duties as district boundary board;
  (d) Budget and tax levying duties, including the levying of
taxes under ORS 280.060;
  (e) Contracting a bonded indebtedness and levying direct ad
valorem taxes on all taxable property within the education
service district in the manner that component school districts
are authorized to issue bonds and levy taxes under ORS 328.205 to
328.304 and other laws applicable to the issuance of bonds and
levying of taxes by school districts; and
  (f) Creating a county education bond district under ORS 328.304
from a county within the district.
  (4) In addition to its duties under subsection (3) of this
section, an education service district board may provide services
required by the local service plan developed pursuant to ORS
334.175 and may provide funds to component school districts to
provide services required by the local plan in lieu of those
school districts receiving services from the education service
district.

  (5) The education service district board may employ and fix the
compensation of such personnel as it considers necessary for
carrying out duties of the board.
  (6) In carrying out its duties, the education service district
board:
  (a) May locate, buy, accept by gift or lease such land,
buildings and facilities as may be required for district
purposes.  Leases authorized by this section may be for a term of
up to 30 years and include lease-purchase agreements whereunder
the district may acquire ownership of the leased property.
  (b) May acquire personal property by a lease-purchase agreement
or contract of purchase for a term exceeding one year. A
lease-purchase agreement is one in which the rent payable by the
district is expressly agreed to have been established to reflect
the savings resulting from the exemption from taxation, and the
district is entitled to ownership of the property at a nominal or
other price which is stated or determinable by the terms of the
agreement and was not intended to reflect the true value of the
property.
  (c) May lease property or sell and convey property of the
district as the board considers unnecessary to its purposes.
  (d) May purchase relocatable structures in installment
transactions in which deferred installments of the purchase price
are payable over not more than 10 years from the date of delivery
of the property to the district and are secured by a security
interest in the property. The transactions may take the form of,
but are not limited to, lease-purchase agreements.
  (e) May accept money or property donated for the use or benefit
of the district and use the money or property for the purpose for
which it was donated.
  (7) The education service district board may adopt rules it
considers necessary to carry out the duties of the board.
  (8) The education service district may contract with public and
private entities for service delivery.
  (9)(a) The education service district shall work cooperatively
with component school districts and review periodically with
component school districts the operations of component school
districts and shall submit to the component school districts
plans for operations that achieve economies and efficiencies
through consolidation of various operations of all or some of the
districts. The education service district and its component
school districts shall submit an annual report on the
effectiveness of the consolidation of operations to the State
Board of Education.
  (b) As used in this subsection, 'operations' means services
involving transportation, payroll, student records, auditing,
legal services, insurance, printing, investment and other similar
services.
   { +  (10) As part of the annual report submitted to the State
Board of Education, as described in subsection (9) of this
section, the education service district and its component school
districts shall include information on the estimated cost savings
of providing special education services through the education
service district as compared to providing special education
services through each component school district. + }
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