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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2699
Sponsored by Representative HUDSON (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: The Act directs HECC to study nurse teacher pay.(Flesch Readability Score: 84.9).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study nurse faculty compensation
in this state. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to nurse faculty compensation.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall study nurse faculty
compensation in this state.
(2) The study under subsection (1) of this section must include:
(a) Comparisons of nurse faculty compensation in other states to compensation in this
state;and
(b) The effects of compensation on recruitment and retention of nurse faculty.
(3) The commission shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and
may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative
Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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