The Look Ahead

Monday

10:30 a.m. | The House will convene to vote on:

Requiring education providers to prohibit displays of any symbols of hate on school property or in education programs (HB 2697A).
Requiring public universities and community colleges to prominently display mandatory fees (HB 2542A).

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 districts to adopt policies concerning ownership rights for teacher-created intellectual property (SB 667).
Allowing community colleges and public universities to merge (SB 226).

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

Requiring school districts to establish educational equity advisory committees (SB 732).
Requiring school leaders to receive specified training (SB 334).
Modifying the definition of alternative education programs (SB 225).
Allowing students, including students receiving special education, to take an additional two years to complete high school (SB 747).
Requiring the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a common course numbering system for all introductory and lower-level courses (SB 233).
Studying the most effective methods to diversify the educator workforce (SB 232).
Requiring school district boards to ensure that a specified percentage of school district budgets is paid to teachers of core academic subjects or manual skills (SB 804).

Tuesday

10:30 a.m. | The House will convene to vote on:

Directing the Oregon Department of Education to provide money for the education of students in qualified treatment programs (HB 3254).
Requiring schools to offer free lunches and breakfasts to students if they meet federal requirements or are from a household with income that does not exceed 300% of the federal poverty guideline (HB 2536).

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

Removing certain nonviolent crimes from a list that automatically make a person ineligible to hold a license or registration issued by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (HB 2942A)
Allowing public charter schools to implement weighted lotteries that favor historically underserved students (HB 2954).
Requiring school districts to provide information about services and placements available for children who are deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing (HB 3183).
Allowing school districts to use money distributed from the Student Investment Account for student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs (HB 2537).
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 (HB 2989).
Allowing certain schools to qualify as remote elementary schools or small high schools for additional distributions from the State School Fund (HB 3169).

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

Directing school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction in oral health as part of a health education curriculum (HB 2969).
Requiring school districts to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation (HB 3234).
Altering eligibility requirements and formulas for the Oregon Opportunity Grant (HB 2093).
Establishing a Racial Equity and Justice Student Council (HB 3363).

Wednesday

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

Requiring students to demonstrate proficiency in civics to receive a high school diploma (SB 513A).

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:

Removing the sunset on the requirement that students must receive information related to statewide summative assessments (SB 602).
Creating a position of school nurse specialist in the Oregon Department of Education (SB 356).
Prohibiting school district boards from authorizing, and school districts from using, certain monitoring software related to students' computer usage (SB 594).
Studying standardized tests (SB 606).
Prohibiting the State Board of Education from requiring, and school districts from administering, certain assessments to students enrolled or preparing to enroll in prekindergarten through grade 2 (SB 596).

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

Requiring school districts to adopt policies concerning ownership rights for teacher-created intellectual property (SB 667).

Thursday

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

Studying students' behavioral health needs (HB 2408).
Requiring public education providers to provide free feminine hygiene products (HB 3294).
Requiring a school district that is making educator staff reductions to retain teachers with less seniority if they have more merit and if the retention is necessary to maintain the school district's diversity ratio (HB 2001).
Directing the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt standards for educator preparation programs relating to evaluations of teacher candidates (HB 3354).

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

Prescribing requirements for providing education to students with disabilities during the COVID-19 emergency (HB 3350).
Allowing school districts with remote small high schools to use money from the High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act on existing career and technical education programs (HB 2802).
Appropriating money for certain school districts’ career and technical education programs (HB 2793).
Directing the Oregon Department of Education to develop accountability measures related to school quality and student success (HB 3338).

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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