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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3040
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Department of Education)
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 study ways to help children learn how to read. (Flesch Readability
Score:88.9).
Requires the Department of Education to study methods for improving early literacy outcomes.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly
related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to early literacy.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. The Department of Education shall study methods for improving early lit-
eracy outcomes. The department 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 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SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.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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