Monday
1 p.m. The Senate Education Committee will hold an organizational meeting to adopt committee rules and introduce members.
3 p.m. The House Education Committee will hold an organizational meeting and a public hearing and work session on:
- Requiring school districts to allow homeschooled students and public charter school students to participate in interscholastic activities (HB 4036).
- Establishing a task force on rural education (HB 4051).
- Prohibiting education service districts from imposing additional diploma requirements on students in juvenile detention or youth corrections programs (HB 4047).
Tuesday
8:30 a.m. The Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold an informational meeting on:
- Measure 98 implementation.
- Activities related to absenteeism and trauma-informed practices.
1 p.m. The Senate Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing and work session on:
- Modifying the definition of child abuse for mandatory reporting (SB 1540).
3 p.m. The Senate Workforce Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Establishing an Employer Incentive Fund for the Public Employees Retirement System (SB 1566).
3 p.m. The House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee will hold an organizational meeting and a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Removing volunteer service requirement for tuition waivers for foster children (HB 4014).
- Requiring tuition assistance for Oregon National Guard members (HB 4035).
Wednesday
1 p.m. The House Committee on Business and Labor will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Making class size a mandatory collective bargaining subject (HB 4113).
1 p.m. The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Expanding the offering of a grace period for all teachers licensed by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (SB 1520).
- Extending open enrollment (SB 1521).
- Modifying school district requirements for special education students (SB 1522).
- Removing requirement that students who are not citizens must apply for federal identification documents to be eligible for resident tuition rates (SB 1563).
1 p.m. The Senate Health Care Committee will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Expanding the list of health care professionals who can clear a youth athlete suspected of having had a concussion (SB 1547).
1 p.m. The House Revenue Committee will hold an informational meeting on:
- The State School Fund and local option levies.
1 p.m. The House Revenue Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Increasing the money school districts receive that is not considered local revenues for the purposes of State School Fund calculations (HB 4117).
3 p.m. The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Providing that the deputy state treasurer or deputy secretary of state may serve on the State Board of Education (HB 4013).
- Directing the Chief Education Office to study development of educators serving students who could be at risk for experiencing achievement gap (HB 4044).
- Directing the Oregon Department of Education to study school dropouts (HB 4102).
Thursday
3 p.m. The Senate Workforce Committee will hold a public hearing on:
- Establishing an Employer Incentive Fund for the Public Employees Retirement System (SB 1566).
3 p.m. The House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:
- Requiring community colleges to determine best ways to help students apply for benefits (HB 4043).
- Requiring an annual report on accelerated college credit programs (HB 4051).
Friday
Deadline for policy committees to schedule work sessions for bills. Any bills that are not scheduled or are not in Ways and Means, revenue, rules or other joint committees are dead.
1 p.m. The Joint Committee on Student Success will meet.
Items may be added to legislative committee agendas during the week. The Oregon Legislature keeps an updated page of committee agendas.
- Jake Arnold, OSBA
jarnold@osba.org