Education

OR - Representative Margaret Doherty (D)

Title:

Chair

OR - Representative Teresa Alonso Leon (D)

Title:

Vice-chair

OR - Representative Cheri Helt (R)

Title:

Vice-chair

OR - Representative Diego Hernandez (D)

Title:

Member

OR - Representative Courtney Neron (D)

Title:

Member

OR - Representative Jeff Reardon (D)

Title:

Member

OR - Representative E. Werner Reschke (R)

Title:

Member

OR - Representative Janeen A. Sollman (D)

Title:

Member

OR - Representative Kim Wallan (R)

Title:

Member

OR - HB2912 Designates February of each year as Future Business Leaders of America Month.

OR - HB2918 Allows public charter school to change sponsorship if charter is terminated.

OR - HB2910 Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility.

OR - HB2884 Requires vision examination as part of evaluation before initially receiving special education.

OR - HB3212 Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide pilot program grant to consortium to assist public post-secondary institutions of education in Klamath County, Jackson County and Josephine County.

OR - HB2809 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish competency-based education pilot program.

OR - SB485 Directs Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with certain schools and facilities when developing plan for communication following suspected suicide.

OR - HB3104 Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to spending trends of school districts and possible areas of savings for school districts.

OR - HB3256 Directs Department of Education to study insurance policies related to interns.

OR - HB3263 Directs State Board of Education, in consultation with State Library, to adopt standards for school library program and academic content standards for library and media studies.

OR - HB3277 Requires State Board of Education, in consultation with Oregon Health Authority, Oregon State Board of Nursing and State Board of Pharmacy, to adopt rules that require each high school in this state and each charter school in this state that offers high school curriculum to maintain supply of opioid antagonist and to train adequate number of school personnel in administering opioid antagonist to person that has suffered opioid overdose.

OR - HB3280 Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.

OR - HB3142 Requires each post-secondary institution of education that operates in Oregon and enrolls students who receive federal financial aid or state financial aid to provide specified data on current and former students to Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

OR - HB2967 Directs Department of Education to award grants to enable school districts to provide courses in computer science as part of career and technical education program.

OR - HB2966 Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine if any modifications are required for public charter school law.

OR - HB2964 Directs Department of Education to create Oregon Education Support Professional of the Year Program.

OR - HB2965 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine best method for reducing amount of student debt owed by individuals who graduate from community colleges and public universities.

OR - HB2976 Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission and Department of Veterans' Affairs to adopt by rule additional minimum standards regarding source of tuition revenue for licensing of career schools and schools authorized to confer degrees.

OR - HB2985 Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule standards for provision of occupational therapy to students who have individualized education programs.

OR - HB2441 Requires school districts to provide coordinated comprehensive school counseling program.

OR - HB2594 Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Sustainable City Year Program at University of Oregon.

OR - HB2607 Requires school districts to provide instruction in oral health.

OR - HB2604 Directs Department of Education to award grants to school districts to support safe schools by funding programs related to bullying prevention and youth empowerment.

OR - HB2666 Requires school districts to provide instruction in oral health.

OR - HB2649 Modifies process for revising form or notice sent to parents or adult students regarding statewide summative assessments.

OR - HB2673 Directs Department of Education to create Oregon Educational Support Professional of Year Program.

OR - HB2676 Increases threshold under which school district may receive additional State School Fund moneys for student eligible for special education.

OR - HB2542 Requires student to demonstrate proficiency in civics in order to receive high school diploma.

OR - HB3115 Removes sunset on provisions that allow foreign exchange students residing in dormitories to be considered resident students for purpose of State School Fund distributions.

OR - HB3126 Directs school district to develop and annually review district equity plan.

OR - HB2773 Removes sunset on provisions that allow certain nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.

OR - HB2140 Extends sunset for tax credit for payments to employee and dependent scholarship programs.

OR - HB2736 Allows school district and public charter school to implement nationally recognized high school assessment in mathematics, science or English if assessment complies with specified criteria.

OR - HB2721 Directs school districts to have comprehensive health services program.

OR - HB2742 Directs Department of Education to distribute grants for purpose of developing and diversifying education workforce for prekindergarten through grade 12.

OR - HB3381 Prohibits public universities from increasing amount of tuition and mandatory fees charged to resident undergraduate and graduate students during 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years.

OR - HB3391 Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon career and technical student organizations in support of organizations.

OR - SB689 Requires that spouses or dependent children of active members of Armed Forces of United States who are considered residents at time of admission to community college or public university continue to be considered residents for as long as they remain continuously enrolled at community college or public university.

OR - SB859 Exempts graduate students at public universities who qualify for tuition equity from having to pay nonresident tuition.

OR - HB2941 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to require each mental health provider preparation program in this state to prepare plan to recruit and graduate diverse mental health providers.

OR - HB2942 Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to adopt statewide higher education equity plan and take plan into account in recommending to Governor appropriations for specified programs, facilities and investments and in advising Legislative Assembly, Governor, community colleges, public universities and other state boards and commissions on educational policies.

OR - HB2939 Directs Youth Development Division to develop and administer statewide youth reengagement system.

OR - HB2940 Establishes pilot program for purpose of increasing number of public school students who are served by school social workers.

OR - HB2870 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine best method for reducing long-term rate of tuition and mandatory enrollment fee increases at public universities.

OR - HB2867 Modifies requirements for school to qualify as small high school for purposes of State School Fund distributions.

OR - HB2875 Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify stable and sustainable funding sources for High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act.

OR - HB2872 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine best method for ensuring that courses offered at community colleges correspond with local workforce needs.

OR - HB2873 Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify methods for increasing availability of early childhood education.

OR - HB2874 Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify stable funding sources for public education.

OR - HB2871 Renames Oregon Youth Conservation Corps as Oregon Youth Corps.

OR - HB2876 Requires each school district to provide coordinated comprehensive school counseling program.

OR - HB2877 Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine if any modifications are required for public charter school law.

OR - HB2836 Extends sunset for pilot programs that use trauma-informed approach to decreasing rates of school absenteeism.

OR - HB3105 Directs large school districts to establish policy for use of school district credit cards by school district employees.

OR - HB3032 Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying .

OR - HB2906 Extends by five years certain provisions that allow nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.

OR - HB2907 Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students.

OR - HB2902 Requires school district to report on number of incidents during which students of classroom were removed from classroom because other student in classroom was acting in manner that would threaten to cause harm to student, to injure other person or to damage school property.

OR - HB2897 Establishes Early Childhood Equity Fund.

OR - HB2899 Prescribes requirements for removal of student from classroom or school setting by school employees or law enforcement.

OR - HB2889 Creates Guaranteed Opportunity Program.

OR - HB2990 Establishes Task Force on Family Engagement in Education.

OR - HB2988 Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to reengaging into school persons who dropped out of public secondary schools.

OR - HB2989 Allows student enrolled in program provided by school district or education service district to earn General Educational Development (GED) certificate to participate in interscholastic activities.

OR - HB3013 Provides tuition and fee remission for natural child of foster parent if natural child attends institution of higher education.

OR - HB2987 Requires public institutions of higher education to bypass developmental educational requirements and placement tests for each student who receives grade on approved high school equivalency test indicating student is fully qualified to bypass requirements and tests.

OR - HB3235 Establishes School Support Fund consisting of moneys transferred from Oregon Marijuana Account.

OR - HB3155 Requires school districts to withhold retainage when entering into public contract to provide services required by state or federal law.

OR - HB3038 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish Oregon work study pilot program to assist post-secondary students.

OR - HB3345 Excludes credits earned in accelerated college credit programs from applying when determining eligibility for receiving Oregon Promise program grant or renewal of grant.

OR - HB2457 Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, Department of Education and Office of Child Care to make specified evaluations to increase number of educators in Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region who are available to teach courses in secondary math and science and in career and technical education programs.

OR - HB2557 Establishes minimum education requirements for teachers of certain accelerated college credit program courses.

OR - HB2580 Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects for school districts.

OR - HB2246 Directs Early Learning Division to develop plan for ensuring children seamlessly transition between mental health services.

OR - HB2249 Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study and develop recommendations on how Oregon's public institutions of higher education can best prepare and match Oregon's current and future workforce with workforce needs of Oregon's critical economic sectors.

OR - HB2263 Directs Department of Education, in collaboration with Higher Education Coordinating Commission, to administer Accelerated College Credit Planning Partnership Grant Program to encourage partnerships between school districts and post-secondary institutions of education to offer accelerated college credit programs.

OR - HB2262 Modifies duties and membership of Early Learning Council.

OR - HB2261 Expands scope of levels of education considered by Quality Education Commission.

OR - HB2326 Provides funding for grant program under which Department of Education awards grants to school districts for percentage of certain student transportation costs for which school district does not receive any amount in distributions from State School Fund or any amount related to transit activities.

OR - HB2290 Directs education service districts to ensure that services of school behavioral health specialist are available to component school districts.

OR - HB2287 Authorizes school district to allow firearm safety instruction on school property.

OR - HB2318 Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring, and school districts from administering, certain assessments to students enrolled or preparing to enroll in prekindergarten through grade two.

OR - HB2327 Establishes Statewide School Safety and Prevention System.

OR - HB2342 Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule complaint process to report school district policy in violation of state law prohibiting harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying.

OR - HB2556 Provides seven days of excused absences from school if pupil is dependent of member of Armed Forces of United States who is on active duty or who is called into active duty.

OR - HB2571 Provides that current or former foster child under 25 years of age is eligible for tuition waiver at institution of higher education if current or former foster child is enrolled in courses totaling one or more credit hours for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.

OR - HB2022 Changes name of Oregon Virtual School District to Oregon Digital Learning .

OR - HB2025 Revises preschool program administered by Early Learning Division and establishes program as Preschool Promise Program.

OR - HB2023 Directs State Board of Education to ensure that academic content standards for certain subjects include sufficient instruction on histories, contributions and perspectives of certain classifications of individuals.

OR - HB2612 Requires district school board to prohibit school district from being member of, or paying fees to, voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities or that facilities scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities if organization schedules any interscholastic activities on legal holidays or on weekends preceding or following legal holidays.

OR - HB2026 Extends sunset on pilot program to decrease rates of school absenteeism by using trauma-informed approaches to education, health services and intervention strategies.

OR - HB2028 Integrates foundational curricula and unified statewide transfer agreements into Transfer Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

OR - HB2715 Requires school districts to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and education.

OR - HB2191 Expands reasons for excused absences from school to include mental or behavioral health.

OR - HB2192 Directs school districts and public charter schools to require every student in grades 6 through 12 to undergo mental health wellness check once each school year.

OR - HB2213 Requires each community college and public university to establish textbook affordability plan.

OR - HB2224 Directs Department of Education to distribute grants for improving student outcomes by supporting social, emotional, mental and physical health needs of students.

OR - HB2720 Requires Oregon Health Authority to partner with nonprofit organization with expertise in school nursing services to study and develop recommendations on health care and health services provided in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.

OR - HB2731 Authorizes district school boards to take specified actions to facilitate creation and use of maker spaces.

OR - HB2728 Establishes Oregon Quality Education Model Modernization Task Force.

OR - HB2724 Prohibits sponsor or public charter school from entering into contract or other agreement with for-profit entity to provide specified percentage of educational services for public charter school.

OR - HB3015 Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.

OR - HB2761 Allows school district to seek reimbursement for amounts incurred from providing school meals as required by state law.

OR - HB2763 Eliminates exception that allows for-profit entity to be employer of administrator of virtual public charter school.

OR - HB2759 Establishes School Breakfast and Lunch Reimbursement Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing breakfast and lunch.

OR - HB2760 Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.

OR - HB2214 Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purpose of funding Oregon's Open Educational Resources (OER) Program.

OR - HB2248 Establishes grant program for purpose of improving kindergarten student-to-teacher ratios in schools that are considered high poverty.

OR - HB2247 Establishes Oregon Imagination Library Project in Early Learning Division to improve kindergarten readiness and third-grade reading proficiency by providing enrolled children with free book once each month from birth to age five.

OR - HB2358 Provides grants to counties that received Secure Rural Schools Program payments in calendar year 2008 equal to at least 30 percent of all moneys deposited into county general fund.

OR - HB2372 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study effectiveness of implementing chapter 669, Oregon Laws 2017, and determine whether additional legislation is necessary to enhance process of transferring academic credits between community colleges and public universities.

OR - HB2308 Directs school districts to report participation and completion rates of accelerated college credit programs.

OR - HB2307 Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to safety of career and technical education spaces.

OR - HB3414 Directs Early Learning Division to develop multi-level system of certification of early learning professionals.

OR - SB52 Requires school district to adopt policy requiring comprehensive district plan on student suicide prevention.

OR - SB415 Adds Department of Education employees, school district board members and public charter school governing body members to list of mandatory reporters of child abuse.

OR - SB13 Changes terminology of certain disabilities for purposes of special education statutes.

OR - SB664 Requires school districts to provide instruction about Holocaust and genocide beginning with 2020-2021 school year.

OR - SB160 Requires public institutions of higher education to provide credit to each student who receives grade of four or higher on International Baccalaureate (IB) exam.

OR - SB16 Specifies types of licensed health care practitioners authorized to perform assessments or examinations for purposes of determining special education services eligibility.

OR - SB690 Repeals sunset provision for Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

OR - SB665 Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules for administration of naloxone or any similar medication designed to rapidly reverse overdose of opioid drug.

OR - SB802 Allows military child to be considered resident of school district for purposes of enrollment and class placement based on official military order for transfer of parent of child.

OR - SB496 Prohibits school district from restricting access by alternative education students, English language learners or special education students to specialized learning areas and certain common areas.

OR - HB3434 Increases threshold for filing of estate tax return and for liability for estate tax.

OR - HB3050 Allows student subjected to substantiated act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying to request transfer to another school.

OR - HB2954 Directs Department of Education to administer pilot program that enables school districts to deliver annual mental health screenings to students in grades 6 through 12.

OR - HB3236 Directs Department of Education to implement assessment system that limits number of content-based assessments and criterion-referenced assessments and to encourage school districts to use performance-based assessments.

OR - HB3238 Allows use of physical assistance of students in public education programs.

OR - HB3241 Directs Department of Education to develop and administer grant program to distribute moneys to school districts and education service districts to create secure vestibules in school buildings.

OR - HB3070 Extends maximum period Oregon Opportunity Grant may be renewed from equivalent of four full-time undergraduate years to equivalent of six full-time undergraduate years.

OR - HB3020 Requires public schools to make available, at no cost, menstrual products in at least 50 percent of bathrooms at schools with students in any grade from grade 7 through 12.

OR - SB216 Allows person to be employed in public schools for 90 calendar days after date of submission of pending application for licensure only if person had not been employed during previous 12 months with pending application for same license.

OR - HB3010 Establishes Task Force on Educator Attraction and Retention.

OR - SB3 Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

OR - SB151 Adjusts statutory listing of education service districts to reflect mergers of districts.

OR - HB3323 Directs Department of Education to conduct study that examines current level of use of service animals among students with disabilities and need for more facilities and provisions to accommodate student use of service animals.

OR - HB3257 Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule policy and process for criminal records checks of certain persons who are not employed by school districts but who may have direct, unsupervised contact with school children in two or more school districts.

OR - HB3204 Establishes Dreamers Access Program to award student loans to eligible students with demonstrated financial need.

OR - HB3043 Requires district school boards and public charter school governing bodies to make available space in each school for use by licensed medical professional to provide health services to children.

OR - HB2520 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine whether state should recognize more than one high school equivalency test.

OR - HB2521 Establishes Financial Literacy Account for purpose of supporting implementation and development of curricula related to financial literacy.

OR - HB2526 Includes class size as mandatory subject of school district collective bargaining.

OR - HB2630 Establishes Office of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Education within Department of Education.

OR - HB2632 Provides that Oregon School for the Deaf serve children who are zero through 20 years of age.

OR - HB2629 Directs Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish parent outreach program at Oregon School for the Deaf.

OR - HB2640 Provides that public universities and community colleges must waive all tuition and fees for enrolled students who are members of Native American tribe historically based in Oregon.

OR - HB2642 Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts for various purposes.

OR - HB2651 Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study that identifies duplications and redundancies among public university degree programs, certificate programs, classes and other programs and identifies methods for consolidating or eliminating duplications and redundancies.

OR - HB2665 Establishes grant program for purpose of improving kindergarten student-to-teacher ratios in schools that are considered high poverty.

OR - HB2674 Allows employee of school district or education service district, or employee's exclusive representative, to challenge cost analysis for procurement that school district or education service district conducted.

OR - HB2440 Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students in early childhood through post-secondary education who are Latino or Hispanic and have experienced disproportionate educational results.

OR - HB2444 Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.

OR - HB2507 Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities if student meets other tuition equity requirements.

OR - HB2512 Requires one member of State Board of Education to be engaged in teaching as licensed teacher.

OR - HB2516 Prohibits virtual public school from using moneys received as distributions from State School Fund or from other state or local public sources for paying expenses incurred for advertising or other promotional materials of school.

OR - HB2531 Directs school districts to make annual reports to Department of Education related to students placed on abbreviated school day programs.

OR - HB2519 Requires each community college and each college and university operating in this state that offers baccalaureate degree programs and receives state financial aid to adopt written policy on hazing, provide on-campus policy training on hazing and annually report to Legislative Assembly number of hazing incidents reported and investigated by community college, college or university during previous academic year.

OR - HB2518 Prohibits public universities from decreasing amount of financial aid previously awarded to student due to student's receipt of merit-based scholarships.

OR - HB2029 Revises types of programs considered accelerated college credit programs for purpose of requirement that school districts provide accelerated college credit programs.

OR - HJM3 Urges Congress to fully fund federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

OR - HB2031 Requires that educator who is certified by national professional organization for teaching standards be teaching in public school in state in order to qualify to have educator license renewal fee waived.

OR - HB2074 Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare tentative budget for funding of State School Fund.

OR - HB2765 Requires school district that provides breakfast to make breakfast available after start of school day.

OR - HJR15 Encourages state agencies to follow Childhood and Early Parenting Principles as framework for policies and programs for early parenting and early childhood development.

OR - HB2289 Establishes Task Force on School Safety Features.

OR - HB2030 Clarifies authorities governing Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development.

OR - HB2389 Creates Oregon Bright Futures Plan Task Force.

OR - HB2385 Allows school district with remote small high school to use moneys received under High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act on existing career and technical education programs.

OR - HB2021 Directs Department of Education to provide moneys for payment of costs of education of students in eligible residential alternative education program.

OR - HB2981 Requires community colleges and public universities to permit applicant to use test results applicant received on Smarter Balanced test taken when applicant was in 11th grade in place of requirement that applicant provide nationwide standardized test results.

OR - SB963 Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of students by public education programs.

OR - SB312 Requires public universities and community colleges to charge resident tuition to Native Americans and Alaska Natives who graduated from Oregon high schools.