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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 5515
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Oregon Department of Administrative Services)
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 creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for certain biennial
expenses.
Limits certain biennial expenditures by the department from lottery moneys.
Limits certain biennial expenditures from certain fees, moneys or other revenues collected or
received by the department.
Limits biennial expenditures by the department from certain federal funds.
Limits biennial expenditures and transfers by the department from specified accounts.
Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Education; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Department of Education, for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, for the following
purposes:
(1)Operations............................. $137,868,268
(2)Oregon School for the Deaf..$ 16,520,312
SECTION 2.There are appropriated to the Department of Education, for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, which are to be dis-
tributed as grants-in-aid, for program costs and to purchase services, for the following pur-
poses:
(1)Early intervention services
and early childhood special
education programs..............$250,201,917
(2)Other K-12 grant-in-aid
programs...............................$330,938,521
(3)Youth development
programs...............................$ 16,456,132
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding ORS 327.856, there is appropriated to the Department of
Education, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of
$137,753,161 for deposit into the High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness
Fund.
SECTION 4. There is appropriated to the Department of Education, for the biennium
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
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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beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $86,744,912 for debt service
on general obligation bonds.
SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$77,489,416 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Eco-
nomic Development Fund for deposit in the School Capital Matching Fund established under
ORS 286A.806 as described in section 4, Article XI-P, of the Oregon Constitution.
SECTION 6. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$8,693,643 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Administrative Services Eco-
nomic Development Fund to the Department of Education for debt service.
SECTION 7.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses, other than expenses described in sections 8 and 16 of this 2025 Act, from fees,
moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds,
corporate activity tax funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Department of
Education, for the following purposes:
(1)Capital bonding.....................$472,242,500
(2)Operations.............................$109,651,288
(3)Oregon School for the Deaf..$ 7,513,371
SECTION 8.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services from fees, moneys or other revenues,
including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds, corporate activity tax funds
and federal funds, collected or received by the Department of Education for programs other
than those specified in sections 7 and 16 of this 2025 Act, for the following purposes:
(1)Youth development
programs...............................$ 6,874,100
(2)All other grants....................$105,848,898
(3)Educator Advancement
Council..................................$ 46,219,488
SECTION 9.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from federal funds, other than those described in sections 10 and 16 of this 2025
Act, collected or received by the Department of Education, for the following purposes:
(1)Operations.............................$ 4,074,452
(2)Oregon School for the Deaf..$ 516,066
SECTION 10.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services from federal funds, other than those
described in sections 9 and 16 of this 2025 Act, received by the Department of Education, for
the following purposes:
(1)Youth development
programs...............................$ 1,362,829
(2)All other grants....................$1,035,126,502
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SECTION 11. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$1,212,483,154 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit
for payments of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services by the Department of
Education from the Student Investment Account established under ORS 327.175.
SECTION 12. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$115,377,826 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payments of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services by the Department of Ed-
ucation from the Early Learning Account established under ORS 327.269, for early inter-
vention services and early childhood special education programs.
SECTION 13. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$443,345,793 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses by the Department of Education for a transfer of corporate activities
tax funds from the Early Learning Account established under ORS 327.269 to the Department
of Early Learning and Care.
SECTION 14.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payments
of grants-in-aid, program costs and purchased services by the Department of Education from
the Statewide Education Initiatives Account established under ORS 327.250, for the following
purposes:
(1)High School Graduation
and College and Career
Readiness Fund.....................$203,055,837
(2)Reengagement program ........$ 9,059,615
(3)All other grants....................$354,767,401
SECTION 15. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$48,474,045 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses by the Department of Education from the Statewide Education Initi-
atives Account established under ORS 327.250 for operations.
SECTION 16. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, the following expenditures by the
Department of Education are not limited:
(1) Moneys from the School Foods Revolving Account, Education Training Revolving Ac-
count and Common School Fund; and
(2) Expenditures for grants-in-aid and purchased services from federal funds received by
the Department of Education from the United States Department of Agriculture.
SECTION 17.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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