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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2180
Sponsored by Representative HELFRICH (Presession filed.)
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.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study about hiring police officers who have retired to work
in schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study related to hiring retired police officers
to provide security in public schools.
Directs the department to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly
no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to school safety; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Department of Education shall conduct a study to determine:
(a) The cost of hiring retired police officers to work part-time in the public schools of
this state to provide security for those schools; and
(b) The impact of hiring retired police officers to provide security for public schools on
the schools, school districts, education service districts, department and local, county and
state public safety agencies.
(2) The department shall report the results of the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to an interim committee of the
Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3.This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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