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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3007
Ordered by the House April 10
Including House Amendments dated April 10
Sponsored by Representatives NERON, MCINTIRE; Representative WRIGHT, Senators PATTERSON, REYNOLDS
(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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: Requires schools to implement a plan when a student has a brain injury. (Flesch
Readability Score: 69.9).
[Digest: Requires schools to use a form when a student has a brain injury. (Flesch Readability
Score:83.0).]
Prescribes the requirements [of a form to be used] for an immediate and temporary accom-
modations plan to be implemented when a public education provider receives notification that a
student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to accommodations for students diagnosed with a brain injury; creating new provisions;
amending ORS 336.495; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 336.495 is amended to read:
336.495. [(1) The Department of Education shall develop a form for public education programs to
use when a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.]
[(2) The form required under this section must describe academic accommodations that a public
education program may make for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain
injury. The accommodations must be optional for a public education program to provide and must be
nonmedical.]
[(3)(a) The department must distribute the form developed under this section to public education
programs.]
[(b) The department must make the form developed under this section available for use by educators
and other program employees, students, parents and guardians.]
[(4)(a) A public education program must make the form developed under this section available as
soon as practicable to an educator, a program employee, a student, a parent or a guardian when:]
[(A) The public education program receives notice that a student has been diagnosed with a
concussion or other brain injury; or]
[(B) Requested by an educator, a program employee, a student, a parent or a guardian.]
[(b) Nothing in this subsection requires a public education program to provide any or all of the
academic accommodations described on the form.]
[(5) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules necessary for the implementation of this
section.]
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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(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Health care professional” means a person who is licensed or registered under the
laws of this state as a physician, a chiropractic physician, a naturopathic physician, a psy-
chologist, a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, a physician associate or a nurse
practitioner.
(b) “Public education provider” means a school district, a public charter school or an
education service district.
(2)(a) The Department of Education shall establish a procedure for public education pro-
viders to use to develop and implement an immediate and temporary accommodations plan
for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury by a health
care professional to ensure the safety and recovery of the student and to reduce the risk of
reinjury or additional injury to the student.
(b) The department shall prepare a sample form, and include written instructions for the
sample form, to assist public education providers in following the procedure to develop and
implement an immediate and temporary accommodations plan.
(3) Upon receiving written notification from a parent or guardian that a student has been
diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury by a health care professional and that
accommodations are being requested, a public education provider shall initiate the procedure
to develop and implement an immediate and temporary accommodations plan.
(4) The procedure to develop and implement an immediate and temporary accommo-
dations plan shall be used by a public education provider to:
(a) Determine if immediate physical activity limitations are necessary to ensure the
safety and recovery of the student and to minimize the risk of reinjury or additional injury
to the student, including activities such as physical education, recess, unstructured play and
similar activities provided by or sponsored through the public education provider that involve
running, jumping, climbing, throwing, catching or other movements that pose a risk of falls,
collisions or physical injury. The public education provider shall implement any immediate
physical activity limitations determined to be necessary.
(b) Describe present challenges and symptoms associated with the student’s concussion
or other brain injury.
(c) Identify and implement immediate and temporary academic, social-emotional, behav-
ioral or other necessary accommodations determined to be appropriate for the student to
support meaningful participation in educational activities at a level that is appropriate for
the student’s recovery.
(d) Communicate accommodations identified under paragraph (c) of this subsection with:
(A) All teachers who provide instruction to the student; and
(B) Other employees of the public education provider who have regular responsibilities
for the student’s supervision or health, including school nurses, counselors, physical educa-
tion teachers, coaches, athletic trainers and staff supervising recess or other physical ac-
tivities.
(e) Ensure that the accommodations identified under paragraph (c) of this subsection are:
(A) In effect no later than 10 days after written notification has been received by the
public education provider regarding the concussion or other brain injury; and
(B) Reviewed as needed, but no later than every two months, based on the student’s re-
covery.
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(5) The department shall make available to all public education providers the procedure
and sample form developed under this section.
SECTION 2. The amendments to ORS 336.495 by section 1 of this 2025 Act first apply to
the 2025-2026 school year.
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.
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