HB2182 • 2025

Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Helfrich
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.

Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.

Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to identify the costs to improve school safety and how to pay for the costs.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to identify the costs to improve school safety and how to pay for the costs.
(Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs the department to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Education with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to identify the costs to improve school safety and how to pay for the costs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs the department to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Relating to: Relating to school safety; declaring an emergency.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2182
Sponsored by Representative HELFRICH (Presession filed.)
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: Directs ODE to conduct a study to identify the costs to improve school safety and how
to pay for the costs. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Directs the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify the costs and possible
funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs the department to submit a report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly
no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to school safety; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Education shall conduct a study to identify the costs
and possible funding sources to improve school safety. The study shall include consideration
of:
(a) Placing law enforcement officers in schools and having the officers be responsible for
safety and crime prevention in schools, including responding to active shooter incidents;
(b) Using mental health professionals to provide mental health services in schools; and
(c) Training educators to identify and refer students in need of additional mental health
services and to identify possible threats to school safety that exist within and outside the
school community.
(2) The department shall report the results of the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to an interim committee of the
Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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.
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