Bill Text: OR HB3235 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to statewide information systems for public education programs; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3235 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3235-Introduced.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 3408

                         House Bill 3235

Sponsored by 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.

  Directs Department of Education to enter into contract to
establish statewide information system that is used to collect
and maintain information about students enrolled in public
education programs.
  Allows department to expend moneys from State School Fund for
purpose of administering statewide information system.
  Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2013.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to statewide information systems for public education
  programs; creating new provisions; amending ORS 327.008; and
  declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) As used in this section, 'public education
program' means an education program provided by:
  (a) A school district;
  (b) A public charter school;
  (c) An education service district;
  (d) A long term care or treatment facility, as described in ORS
343.961;
  (e) The Youth Corrections Education Program;
  (f) The Juvenile Detention Education Program; or
  (g) The Oregon School for the Deaf.
  (2)(a) The Department of Education shall establish a statewide
information system that is used to collect and maintain
information about students enrolled in public education programs.
  (b) The State Board of Education shall adopt by rule a
description of the data to be collected and maintained as
provided by this subsection. The rules must provide for the
collection of data that:
  (A) Measures the progress of students enrolled in public
education programs who have an individualized education program.
  (B) Is longitudinal and is capable of tracking a student from
preschool through the completion of post-secondary education.
  (3) The Department of Education shall establish a statewide
system for financial and business operations.
  (4) The Department of Education may enter into a contract with
a public or private entity to establish the systems described in
subsections (2) and (3) of this section. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) The Department of Education shall ensure
that, within five years of the establishment of the systems
described in section 1 of this 2013 Act, the providers of all
public education programs use the systems described in section 1
of this 2013 Act.
  (2) The State Board of Education may establish by rule
timelines for the implementation of section 1 of this 2013 Act
that are in compliance with subsection (1) of this section. + }
  SECTION 3. ORS 327.008, as amended by section 3, chapter 91,
Oregon Laws 2012, is amended to read:
  327.008. (1) There is established a State School Fund in the
General Fund. The fund shall consist of moneys appropriated by
the Legislative Assembly and moneys transferred from the
Education Stability Fund. The State School Fund is continuously
appropriated to the Department of Education for the purposes of
ORS 327.006 to 327.077, 327.095, 327.099, 327.101, 327.125,
327.137, 327.348, 336.575, 336.580, 336.635, 342.173, 343.243,
343.533 and 343.961.
  (2) There shall be apportioned from the State School Fund to
each school district a State School Fund grant, consisting of the
positive amount equal to a general purpose grant and a facility
grant and a transportation grant and a high cost disabilities
grant minus local revenue, computed as provided in ORS 327.011
and 327.013.
  (3) There shall be apportioned from the State School Fund to
each education service district a State School Fund grant as
calculated under ORS 327.019.
  (4) There shall be apportioned from the State School Fund the
amount to be transferred to the Regional Educational Services
Account as calculated under ORS 327.009.
  (5) All figures used in the determination of the distribution
of the State School Fund shall be estimates for the same year as
the distribution occurs, unless otherwise specified.
  (6) Numbers of students in average daily membership used in the
distribution formula shall be the numbers as of June of the year
of distribution.
  (7) A school district may not use the portion of the State
School Fund grant that is attributable to the facility grant for
capital construction costs.
  (8) The total amount of the State School Fund that is
distributed as facility grants may not exceed $25 million in any
biennium. If the total amount to be distributed as facility
grants exceeds this limitation, the Department of Education shall
prorate the amount of funds available for facility grants among
those school districts that qualified for a facility grant.
  (9) Each fiscal year, the Department of Education shall
transfer the amount of $18 million from the State School Fund to
the High Cost Disabilities Account established in ORS 327.348.
  (10) Each fiscal year, the Department of Education may expend
up to $550,000 from the State School Fund for the contract
described in ORS 329.488. The amount distributed to education
service districts from the State School Fund under this section
and ORS 327.019 shall be reduced by the amount expended by the
department under this subsection.
  (11) Each biennium, the Department of Education may expend up
to $350,000 from the State School Fund to provide administration
of and support for the development of talented and gifted
education under ORS 343.404.
  (12) Each biennium, the Department of Education may expend up
to $150,000 from the State School Fund for the administration of
a program to increase the number of speech-language pathologists
and speech-language pathology assistants under ORS 348.394 to
348.406.
   { +  (13) Each biennium, the Department of Education may
expend up to $_______ from the State School Fund for the
administration of the systems described in section 1 of this 2013
Act. + }

  SECTION 4.  { + The amendments to ORS 327.008 by section 3 of
this 2013 Act apply to State School Fund distributions commencing
with the 2013-2014 distributions. + }
  SECTION 5.  { + This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect July 1,
2013. + }
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