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HB2737 • 2025

Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries.

Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Representative Hudson
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 conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries.

Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to help school districts that transport students who live outside of the district.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to help school districts that transport students who live outside of the district.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
  • Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries.
  • 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 with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Directs ODE to conduct a study to help school districts that transport students who live outside of the district. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district boundaries. 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 student transportation.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2737
Sponsored by Representative HUDSON (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 help school districts that transport students who live
outside of the district. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.3).
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to identify methods for assisting
school districts that are required to provide transportation to students who do not live in district
boundaries. 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.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to student transportation.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Education shall conduct a study to identify methods
for assisting a school district that provides transportation to any student who lives outside
of the boundaries of the school district but for whom the school district is responsible for
transporting because of requirements under state or federal law to maintain the school of
origin for the student.
(2) The study conducted under this section shall review:
(a) Methods for a school district to reduce the administrative and financial impact of
providing transportation described in subsection (1) of this section;
(b) Methods for a school district to provide transportation for a student described in
subsection (1) of this section who needs individual transportation; and
(c) The attendance data for student populations that are transported across district
boundaries as described in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The department 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
Assembly 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.
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