All Bills - Oregon 2025 Regular Session
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB31
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/31/25
Refer
3/31/25
This Act lets OHCS give grants to tenants whose public housing is terminated. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).] [Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing not later than September 15, 2026.] Authorizes the Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to support tenants of publicly supported housing when the housing's affordability restrictions are terminated. Establishes the Expiring Affordable Housing Tenant Support Fund. Appropriates moneys for deposit into the fund. Declares an emergency, effective on July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB310
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Lets one party ask for a fact finder for an education labor dispute. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Requires only one party to file a petition for a fact finder if the public employer is a public education employer.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB311
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Directs ODE to study state funding for public education in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires the Department of Education to study the adequacy of state funding for public education in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB312
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
Directs ODE to create and use a method for electronic student data. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a standardized method to be used by school districts, education service districts and the department to electronically create, collect, use, maintain, disclose, transfer and access student data. Prescribes requirements of the method. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB313
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
The Act tells DAS to develop an implementation plan to make a collective bargaining process that would apply to teachers across the state. The Act would take effect 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.9). Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop an implementation plan for a statewide collective bargaining process for licensed educators in this state. Requires the department to convene an advisory board to advise the department in developing the plan. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB314
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/14/25
The Act tells some agencies to create a strategic plan for the educator workforce in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). [Digest: The Act tells the TSPC and EAC to create a plan for people to become licensed as educators in different ways. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).] [Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and the Educator Advancement Council to jointly develop a strategic plan for nontraditional pathways to licensure for educators in this state.] [Requires the commission and the council to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than July 1 of each even-numbered year.] Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the Department of Education, the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, the Department of Early Learning and Care and the Educator Advancement Council to jointly develop a three- to five-year strategic plan for agency collaboration to align, coordinate and strengthen the educator workforce in Oregon. Directs the agencies to include an analysis of progress toward meeting the goals of the strategic plan in specific biennial reports required under the Educators Equity Act.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB315
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
4/11/25
Engrossed
4/15/25
Refer
4/16/25
Tells ODE to take actions, and to develop a common coding system, for student absences. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Tells ODE to take actions about how school districts record and respond to student absences. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).] Directs the Department of Education to review, [and] make recommendations and develop best practices related to the recording of student absences and how school districts respond to student absences and to develop a common coding system for school districts to use for student absences. [Requires school districts to report to the department when a student is not considered to have regular attendance.].
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB316
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Directs DAS to study the method to calculate the current service level for the State School Fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study the method for determining the current service level for the purpose of calculating the amount to appropriate for the State School Fund. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB317
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Raises the cap on the amount of state moneys that a school district may receive for a student who is a child with a disability. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Increases over time the percentage cap on the amount of moneys that are distributed from the State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as a child with a disability. Directs the State Board of Education to adopt workload standards for personnel providing special education and related services. Allows a school district to be eligible for a higher percentage cap if the school district complies with the standards. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB318
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act says that substitute teachers can enroll in a health benefit plan with OEBB. The Act says that the teacher has to pay 10 percent of the premiums. The Act says that the teacher's home district has to administer the plan for the teacher and pay the rest of the premiums, but the district will be paid back by OEBB. The Act says that a district has to keep old health care benefits for teachers who cannot enroll in an OEBB plan. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.6). Provides that certain substitute teachers are eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires the substitute teacher to pay 10 percent of the premiums for the plan. Requires the substitute teacher's chosen home district to administer the plan for the substitute teacher and pay the remaining premiums, subject to reimbursement by the board. Requires a district to maintain legacy health care benefits for substitute teachers who are not eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the board. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB319
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act creates the Office of Substitute Teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Establishes the Office of Substitute Teachers in the Department of Education to develop, communicate and coordinate best practices and supports for substitute teachers.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB32
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/10/25
This Act makes OHCS post data on low-income public housing on its webpage. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). [Digest: The Act tells OHCS to study housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9).] [Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to study housing. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to housing not later than September 15, 2026.] Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to post information about publicly supported housing on the department's webpage. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB320
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make the ODE enter into a contract with a third party to offer training to substitute teachers in the state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to enter into a contract with a third party to develop and offer online professional development opportunities for substitute teachers in this state. Requires the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB321
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would make the TSPC create by rule two types of licenses for people who want to be a substitute teacher. The Act would make the TSPC create by rule a way for people with a restricted substitute teaching license to get a regular substitute teaching license. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish by rule a substitute teaching license and a restricted substitute teaching license. Requires the commission to establish by rule an expedited process for persons with a restricted substitute teaching license to obtain a substitute teaching license. Directs the commission, in consultation with the Oregon Substitute Teachers Association, to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than December 15, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
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Oregon 2025 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB322
Introduced
1/13/25
Refer
1/17/25
The Act would change the law in several ways to support substitute teachers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). Directs the Department of Education to enter into a contract with a third party to develop and offer online professional development opportunities for substitute teachers in this state. Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish by rule a substitute teaching license and a restricted substitute teaching license. Requires the commission to establish by rule an expedited process for persons with a restricted substitute teaching license to obtain a substitute teaching license. Provides that certain substitute teachers are eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. Requires the substitute teacher to pay 10 percent of the premiums for the plan. Requires the substitute teacher's chosen home district to administer the plan for the substitute teacher and pay the remaining premiums, subject to reimbursement by the board. Requires a district to maintain legacy health care benefits for substitute teachers who are not eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the board. Establishes the Office of Substitute Teachers in the Department of Education to develop, communicate and coordinate best practices and supports for substitute teachers. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.