The Look Ahead

Monday
1 p.m. | The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:

3:15 p.m. | The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:

Studying media program standards developed by the Oregon State Board of Education (SB 552).
Permitting the merger of a community college and a public university (SB 1).

3:15 p.m. | The Senate Education Committee will hold a work session on:

Prohibiting requiring prospective post-secondary students to disclose whether the student has a criminal conviction (SB 713).
Altering the composition of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for a graduate student attending a public university (SB 712).
Directing the Oregon Department of Education to establish a pilot program that enables school districts to deliver mental health screenings to students in grades 9 through 12 (SB 782).
Establishing a Task Force on Public Charter School Overview (SB 624).
Modifying the requirements of plans of instruction for talented and gifted children (SB 486).
Establishing a Task Force on Social Studies Standards (SB 702).
Requiring community colleges to allow criminal justice courses to be eligible for the social science cluster portion of an associate degree (SB 416).

5:30 p.m. | The House Special Committee on Wildfire Recovery will hold a work session on:

Providing that, for five school years, calculations of weighted average daily membership for state money distribution to school districts may not be decreased for school districts impacted by wildfires in 2020 (HB 2630).

Tuesday

11 a.m. | The House will convene to vote on:

Requiring education providers to prohibit the use or display of any symbols of hate on school property or in education programs (HB 2697).

1 p.m. | The House Education Committee will hold a public hearing and possible work session on:

Establishing a state policy that career and technical education is provided through a seamless system that begins at the secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs (HB 2989).
Allowing public charter schools to implement weighted lotteries that favor historically underserved students when the enrollment applications exceed capacity. (HB 2954).
Removing certain nonviolent crimes from the list of crimes that automatically make a person ineligible to hold a license or registration issued by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) (HB 2942 A).
Prohibiting the TSPC from issuing a license or registration to a person convicted of domestic violence (HB 2135).
Allowing certain schools to qualify as a remote elementary school or small high school and to receive additional State School Fund distributions (HB 3169).

1 p.m. | The House Education Committee will hold a work session on:

Excluding certain persons from criminal records checks conducted by the TSPC (HB 2058).
Requiring public universities and community colleges to prominently display total costs of all required course materials and fees (HB 2919).
Directing the TSPC to adopt standards for educator preparation programs relating to evaluations of teacher candidates (HB 3354).
Clarifying who may be investigated or disciplined by the TSPC (HB 2136).
Requiring school districts to evaluate students’ instructional needs due to COVID-19 closures (SB 2962).
Prescribing notification requirements for school districts upon receipt of a report of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying (HB 2631).
Making permanent school district funding for foreign exchange students and small school district grants (HB 2330).
Requiring schools to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge if the school meets the special provisions of the federal meal program or if the student is from a household with income that does not exceed 300% of the federal poverty guidelines (HB 2536).
Increasing student achievement and leadership and improving graduation rates, college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in career and technical student organization courses (HB 2414).
Establishing a pilot program to improve educational outcomes by using trauma-informed approaches to education, health services and intervention strategies (HB 2368).

Wednesday

1 p.m. | The Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee will hold a public hearing on:

3:15 p.m. | The Senate Education Committee will hold a public hearing on:

Requiring school board members and superintendents to receive specified training (SB 334).
Studying Oregon’s education system (SB 225).
Allowing students to take an additional two years to complete high school (SB 747).

3:15 p.m. | The Senate Education Committee will hold a work session on:

Amending the definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects for school districts (SB 580).
Increasing the maximum fee the TSPC can impose for reinstatement of a license that has been suspended or revoked for gross neglect of duty or gross unfitness (SB 129).
Reviewing Oregon’s requirements for a high school diploma (SB 744).

Thursday

1 p.m. | The House Education Committee will a public hearing and possible work session on:

Establishing a Racial Equity and Justice Student Council (HB 3363).
Appropriating money from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the Community College Support Fund (HB 2907).
Allowing school districts to use money from the Student Investment Account for student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs (HB 2537).

1 p.m. | The House Education Committee will hold a work session on:

Requiring school districts to ensure that students who have been suspended or expelled receive specified services (HB 2945).

Items may be added to legislative committee agendas during the week. The Oregon Legislature keeps an updated page of committee agendas.

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