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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3357
Sponsored by Representatives NERON, MUNOZ; Representative FRAGALA
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: Requires ODE to provide a method to record an injury of an employee at a school.
(Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Directs the Department of Education to implement a method to be used by school districts and
education service districts to record school workplace safety incidents.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the reporting of education workplace safety incidents; creating new provisions; and
amending ORS 339.309.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of
Consumer and Business Services, shall implement a method to enable school districts and
education service districts to record on the website of the Department of Education any
school workplace safety incidents involving an employee of the school district or education
servicedistrict.
(2) The method must provide for the following data to be recorded for a school workplace
safetyincident:
(a) The school district in which the incident occurred.
(b) The school or other location where the incident occurred.
(c) For an incident that occurred at a school, the location within the school where the
incident occurred.
(d) The nature of any injuries occurring as a result of the incident, including:
(A) Whether the injury was recorded as a work-related injury to comply with applicable
health and safety recordkeeping requirements; and
(B) Whether the injury is classified as a disabling compensable injury or a nondisabling
compensable injury under ORS chapter 656.
(e) Whether a student was involved in the incident.
(f) The status of any de-escalation training received by the employee involved in the in-
cident.
(g) Any additional data, as required by the Department of Education.
(3) The method must provide for:
(a) The recording of the data described in subsection (2) of this section in a manner that
is:
(A) Easy to use for staff members;
(B) Accessible to the public; and
(C) Accessible in multiple formats and in English and the languages listed by the Secre-
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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tary of State under ORS 251.167 (1)(a).
(b) A format for making the data described in subsection (2) of this section accessible for
purposes of data collection and analysis.
(c) Consistency in and fidelity to the data collected.
(d) The minimization of duplicative reporting of school workplace safety incidents.
(e) Safeguards to address bias against protected classes of students.
SECTION 2. ORS 339.309 is amended to read:
339.309. (1) Each district school board shall establish a policy for the reporting of incidents that:
(a) Result in the injury of an employee of the school district; and
(b) Are sustained while in the actual performance of the duty of the employee.
(2) A policy established as provided by this section must align, to the extent practicable, with
any [existing] other reporting requirements, including the reporting requirements of section 1
of this 2025 Act.
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