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HB2002 • 2025

Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education.

Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Fahey
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education.

Digest: Tells a state agency to study higher ed.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells a state agency to study higher ed.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
  • Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education.
  • Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-06-23 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

  3. 2025-06-23 House

    Referred to Higher Education and Workforce Development.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells a state agency to study higher ed. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to higher education.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2002
Sponsored by Representative FAHEY
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Tells a state agency to study higher ed. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study higher education. Directs the
commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to
higher education no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to higher education.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall study higher educa-
tion. The commission shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may
include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to higher education no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 5002