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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3622
Sponsored by Representative RESCHKE
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 each school district board to teach about child human trafficking. (Flesch
Readability Score: 64.9).
Directs each school district board to adopt a prevention curriculum that addresses child human
trafficking.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to human trafficking; creating new provisions; amending ORS 336.059; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 336.059 is amended to read:
336.059. (1) Each school district board shall adopt a child sexual abuse and child human traf-
ficking prevention [instructional program] curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade
12.
(2) School districts must include in the program:
(a) Developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, trauma informed and evidence-based in-
struction for each grade level;
(b) [A minimum of four instructional sessions] An instructional lesson offered a minimum of
four times per school year, with each year’s instruction building on the previous year’s instruction;
(c) Age-appropriate curriculum including role-playing, discussion, activities and booksand dis-
cussions of best practices to educate students regarding child sexual abuse and child human
traffickingprevention;
(d) Instruction providing students with the knowledge and tools to communicate incidents of
sexual abuse and child human trafficking;
(e) Instruction regarding “safe touch,” “unsafe touch,” “safe secrets,” [“unsafe secrets,” ] “un-
safe secrets” and “grooming” and how to escape and report a sexual abuse or child human
traffickingsituation;
(f) Techniques to recognize child sexual abuse and child human trafficking, skills to reduce
vulnerability and encouragement to report child sexual abuse and child human trafficking;
(g) Discussions of the role of technology in child sexual abuse and child human traffick-
ing and how to recognize materials related to child sexual abuse and child human trafficking;
[(g)] (h) An evaluation component with measurable outcomes;
[(h)] (i) A professional training component for administrators, teachers and other school per-
sonnelregarding:
(A) Communicating child sexual abuse and child human trafficking prevention techniques to
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 4330 HB3622
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students[,];
(B) Understanding the effects of child sexual abuse and child human trafficking on
children[,];and
(C) Making and receiving child sexual abuse and child human trafficking reports and disclo-
sures and mandated reporting; and
[(i)] (j) A parental involvement component to inform parents about child sexual abuse and child
human trafficking topics, including characteristics of offenders, “grooming” behaviors and how to
discuss child sexual abuse and child human trafficking prevention with children.
(3) Program instruction may be delivered by instructors including teachers, school counselors
and outside agency prevention educators, provided the instructors have knowledge of and training
in child sexual abuse and child human trafficking prevention. Instructors who are experienced
in providing instruction on child sexual abuse and child human trafficking are encouraged
to train new instructors.
SECTION 2. The amendments to ORS 336.059 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
July 1, 2025.
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