Bill Text: OR HB3235 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
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
77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . 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. + } ----------