The Week Ahead

May 30

8:30 a.m. - Joint Tax Reform Committee holds informational meeting on:

• Business tax reform.

3 p.m. - The Senate Education Committee holds possible work session on:

• Assisting students in poverty (HB 3216).

• Reporting competency-based education in post-secondary schools (HB 3289-A).

• Allowing interscholastic activities for charter school students (HB 3293).

3 p.m. - The Senate Education Committee holds work session on:

• Requiring annual report from the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (HB 3351).

• Establishing functional behavioral analysis procedures (HB 3318-A).

• Exempting National Guard members from community college deadline (HB 3423-A).

• Convening ELL program advisory group (HB 3358-A).

• Setting dental screening rules (HB 3353-A and HB 3181-A).

• Exempting some students on visas from school attendance (HB 3409-A).

• Allowing one-year delay of school enrollment (HB 3029-A).

• Waiving some diploma requirements for foster, homeless and runaway children (HB 3267-A).

• Requiring post-secondary cultural competencies (HB 2864-A).

• Providing high schools with apprenticeship materials (HB 3340-A).

3 p.m. - House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee holds work session on:

• Requiring credits for advanced placement exams (SB 207-A).

3 p.m. - House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee holds informational meeting on:

• General Educational Development testing.

• National Student Success Center Network.

May 31

8:30 a.m. - Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee holds informational meeting on:

•  Medicaid billing.

8:30 a.m. - Joint Ways and Means Education Subcommittee holds work session on:

• Establishing statewide social studies standards (HB 2845).

3 p.m. - The House Education Committee holds informational meeting on:

• Establishing procedures for resolving complaints against administrators (HB 3444).

• A tour of the Career Technical Education Center.

3 p.m. - The House Education Committee holds work session on:

• Developing policies for use of school facilities by private tutors (SB 1002-A).

• Allowing charter school students to participate in interscholastic activities (SB 208-A).

3 p.m. - The House Education Committee holds informational meeting on:

• Establishing procedures for resolving complaints about administrators (HB 3444).

June 1

8:30 a.m. - Joint Tax Reform Committee holds informational meeting on:

•  Business tax reform.

June 2

• The last day for policy committees to move measures that originated in the opposite chamber. The deadline does not apply to Ways and Means, revenue, rules and joint committees.

Items may be added to legislative committee agendas during the week. The Oregon Legislature keeps an updated page of committee agendas at: olis.leg.state.or.us/LIZ/Committees/Meeting/List

- Jake Arnold
Communications and news specialist
jarnold@osba.org