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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2589
Sponsored by Representative WRIGHT (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: Makes money available to ODE for the State School Fund based on the QEM. (Flesch
Readability Score: 83.8).
Appropriates to the Department of Education out of the General Fund for the State School Fund
an amount of money determined by the Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to ensure that
the state’s system of kindergarten through grade 12 public education meets quality goals.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to funding for public education; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Department of Education, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $12,705,000,000 for the State School Fund.
SECTION 2.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
July 1, 2025.
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.
LC 3579