OregonHB 30382025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Relating to education; and declaring an emergency.

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Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

8 provisions identified: 7 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Education Grants Reach More Deaf Students

Oregon's education grants include hard-of-hearing and deaf-blind students, alongside deaf students. Applicants must have lived in Oregon for the three years immediately before applying. They must attend a university, college, or other suitable school and receive approval from the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Grants cover approved expenses up to $1,000 per student per fiscal year, subject to available appropriations. A student can receive grants for no more than seven years.

Stronger School Supports for Deaf Students

Districts must include communication and education plans in deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind students' individualized education programs and Section 504 plans. They must consider reasonable accommodations and free appropriate education across the required range of placements. Actual, necessary Oregon School for the Deaf transportation costs qualify as approved costs when travel frequency matches either plan. For enrolled children with intellectual or developmental disabilities, the education department must notify the community developmental disabilities program. That notice must include the child's Section 504 plan and annual individualized education program review date.

Families Get Faster School Threat Notices

District boards must require electronic notices after an unplanned school safety-threat action begins. Affected students' parents or guardians and school employees must receive notice as soon as practical, within 24 hours. Family notices must explain the issue, duration, response, and resolution in culturally appropriate languages. Employee notices must include the same information while protecting confidentiality and privacy.

School Security Reviews Include Panic Alarms

The law sets January 1, 2026, for additional school safeguards tied to enactment of House Bill 3083. These provisions require each school's safeguards to include building-security policies and procedures once that trigger is met. When reviewing those policies, school governing bodies must consider qualifying wireless or wearable panic alarms. Qualifying systems must coordinate with emergency services and public safety answering points. The law requires consideration, not installation.

Schools Must Strengthen Emergency Preparedness

Every Oregon school district must maintain a safety program covering immediate threats, communicable diseases, medical emergencies, and emergency instruction. State agencies and local governments must review emergency procedures and help with instruction and drills. Beginning January 1, 2026, covered schools must provide 30 minutes of emergency instruction and one drill each school month. They must hold at least one drill for each safety threat and two earthquake drills each year. Schools in tsunami hazard zones must hold at least three earthquake and tsunami drills yearly. These drill rules cover public and private K–12 schools and educational institutions averaging at least 50 students in daily attendance.

Broader Access to Science Education Grants

Regional science, technology, engineering, and math network members can apply for investment grants. School districts, education service districts, community colleges, and public universities can apply on their behalf. Grants can fund career-awareness projects and links between classroom learning and careers, alongside projects involving private partners. Applicants no longer receive priority based on support from their governing body. The law ends the Connecting Education to Careers Account, but the education department still distributes available money for its purposes.

More Regional Science and Technology Learning

Oregon funds a regional network supporting science, technology, engineering, and math education alongside job-training and workforce partners. Network grants support effective programs, new teaching approaches, and teacher training. Funding also helps recruit, retain, and support students defined as underserved by State Board of Education rules. Those student-support programs must work with community colleges and public universities and lead to high-wage, high-demand jobs. They must match regional labor needs, industry needs, and career-training programs.

Separate Funding for Recovery Charter Schools

Approved recovery charter schools receive funding under separate recovery-school rules. Their students do not count as residents of the school's host district for regular State School Fund distributions. This funding treatment applies beginning with the 2024–25 school year. The education department must reconcile that year's distributions with the recovery-school rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Cosponsors

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Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 103 • No: 31

House vote • 6/13/2025

House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.

Yes: 33 • No: 7

Senate vote • 6/12/2025

Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed.

Yes: 23 • No: 5

Senate vote • 5/21/2025

Education: Heard and Reported Out with Amendments

Yes: 4 • No: 1

House vote • 4/10/2025

Third reading. Carried by Wright. Passed.

Yes: 37 • No: 17

House vote • 3/31/2025