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HB2406 • 2025

Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education.

Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Levy B, Representative Scharf,, Senator Nash,
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 Department of Education to study career and technical education.

Digest: Tells the ODE to study career-based learning.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells the ODE to study career-based learning.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
  • Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education.
  • Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not 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. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Education.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells the ODE to study career-based learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to career and technical education.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2406
Sponsored by Representative LEVY B; Representative SCHARF, Senator NASH (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: Tells the ODE to study career-based learning. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
Requires the Department of Education to study career and technical education. Directs the de-
partment to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to edu-
cation not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to career and technical education.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Education shall study career and technical education.
The department shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may in-
clude recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assem-
bly related to 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 1519