Bill Text: OR SB291 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to expanded learning opportunities; declaring an emergency.

Sponsorship: Unknown

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB291 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB291-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                         Senate Bill 291

Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  Education and General Government)

                             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.

  Creates Expanded Learning Opportunities 2011 Task Force.
  Allows Department of Education to accept contributions of
moneys and assistance for purposes of task force.
  Sunsets on February 4, 2013.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to expanded learning opportunities; and declaring an
  emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Expanded Learning Opportunities 2011
Task Force is established, consisting of 26 members appointed as
follows:
  (a) The President of the Senate shall appoint two members of
the Senate.
  (b) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
two members of the House of Representatives.
  (c) The Governor shall appoint 22 representatives as follows:
  (A) One member representing business interests.
  (B) One member representing the interests of nonprofit
foundations.
  (C) One member representing the Oregon Education Association.
  (D) One member representing the Confederation of Oregon School
Administrators.
  (E) One member representing the Oregon School Boards
Association.
  (F) One member representing the Department of Education.
  (G) One member serving as a regional education improvement
coordinator.
  (H) One member representing Oregon After School for Kids.
  (I) One member who is a school administrator.
  (J) One member representing a national affiliate after-school
program.
  (K) One member representing 21st Century Community Learning
Centers.

  (L) One member serving as an instructor or administrator of a
professional education program at a state institution of higher
education.
  (M) One member representing Oregon Volunteers and the
Corporation for National and Community Service.
  (N) One member representing the Department of Education Child
and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program.
  (O) One member representing the Department of Education Title 1
State Coordination program.
  (P) One member representing the Child Care Division of the
Employment Department.
  (Q) Two members representing the Children, Adults and Families
Division of the Department of Human Services.
  (R) One member representing the Department of Justice.
  (S) One member representing the Housing and Community Services
Department.
  (T) One member representing Native American education programs.
  (U) One member representing cities in this state.
  (2) The task force shall engage in a process to address and
prioritize the following:
  (a) Review of federal funding allocations to this state that
are received by multiple agencies, and recommendations for
protocols for pooling separate sources of funding into a unified
funding source designed to implement common goals;
  (b) Review of existing state and local investments in
before-school, after-school and summer programs and
recommendations for building new partnerships that increase the
capacity for delivering high quality programs across the state;
  (c) Examination of the ability to provide greater access to
before-school, after-school and summer programs for all children
in kindergarten through grade 12;
  (d) Examination of and recommendations about greater
coordination between primary and secondary school education and
before-school, after-school and summer programs;
  (e) Examination of and recommendations for innovative and
cost-effective funding models for using high school student
leadership programs in concert with before-school, after-school
and summer programs;
  (f) Review of current connections between before-school,
after-school and summer programs and teacher education programs,
and recommendations for establishing better connections;
  (g) Identification of practices that lead to high student
performance in each subject area, and identification of the
barriers and costs for implementing these practices in
before-school, after-school and summer programs; and
  (h) Examination of processes that would evaluate and enhance
the quality of before-school, after-school and summer programs,
using a common evaluation method.
  (3) A majority of the voting members of the task force
constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
  (4) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the voting members of the task force.
  (5) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson and one of its members to serve as cochairperson.
  (6) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing
authority shall make an appointment to become immediately
effective.
  (7) The task force shall meet at times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson and cochairperson or of a majority of
the voting members of the task force.
  (8) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operation
of the task force.
  (9) The task force shall submit a report, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to an interim committee of the
Legislative Assembly related to education no later than October
1, 2012.
  (10) The Department of Education, Department of Human Services
and Child Care Division of the Employment Department shall
equally provide staff and support to the task force. Oregon After
School for Kids may continue to support agency staff.
  (11) Members of the task force are not entitled to compensation
or reimbursement for expenses, and serve as volunteers on the
task force.
  (12) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS
174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performance
of its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to
confidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as the
members of the task force consider necessary to perform their
duties.
  (13) The Department of Education may accept, on behalf of the
task force, contributions of moneys and assistance from the
United States Government or its agencies or from any other
source, public or private, and agree to conditions placed on the
moneys not inconsistent with the duties of the task force.
  (14) All moneys received by the Department of Education under
subsection (13) of this section shall be deposited into the
Department of Education account established by ORS 326.115 to be
used for the purposes of carrying out the duties of the task
force. The Department of Education shall compensate the
Department of Human Services and Child Care Division of the
Employment Department for their costs in assisting the task force
in a manner agreed to by all three departments. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2011 Act is repealed on
February 4, 2013. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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