HB2398 • 2025

Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state.

Digest: The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning schools.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning schools.
The Act sunsets on July 1, 2035.
(Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

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

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning schools. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2035. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and certain public universities in this state. Requires each high school in this state to provide certain information about students who received a high school diploma to specified community colleges and universities. Prohibits a student's information from being provided unless that student consents.
Sunsets on July 1, 2035.
Relating to: Relating to direct admissions to certain institutions of higher education.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2398
Sponsored by Representative EVANS (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: The Act tells HECC to create a direct admissions program for certain higher learning
schools. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2035. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.0).
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program
for community colleges and certain public universities in this state. Requires each high school in
this state to provide certain information about students who received a high school diploma to
specified community colleges and universities. Prohibits a student’s information from being provided
unless that student consents.
Sunsets on July 1, 2035.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to direct admissions to certain institutions of higher education.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) For purposes of this section, the term “institutions of higher
education” means:
(a) Community colleges operated under ORS chapter 341;
(b) Eastern Oregon University;
(c) Oregon Institute of Technology;
(d) Southern Oregon University; and
(e) Western Oregon University.
(2) Notwithstanding ORS 350.075 (3)(n), the Higher Education Coordinating Commission
shall establish a direct admissions program for institutions of higher education.
(3)(a) The program established under subsection (2) of this section must include a re-
quirement that, at the end of each school year, each high school in this state provide to the
nearest community college to that high school, in addition to Eastern Oregon University,
Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University and Western Oregon Univer-
sity, the name and other information to be determined by the commission by rule of each
student who received a high school diploma.
(b) A student’s information described in paragraph (a) of this subsection may not be
provided unless that student consents to the provision of that student’s information in ac-
cordance with the policy of each school district board.
(4) The information that is provided to institutions of higher education under subsection
(3) of this section shall operate as a provisional automatic registration to those institutions.
(5) A provisional automatic registration under this section supersedes any other admis-
sion requirement at any institution of higher education.
(6) The commission and the State Board of Education shall adopt rules to implement this
section.
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 1076
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SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act first applies to the 2026-2027 school year.
SECTION 3. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on July 1, 2035.
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