HB2740 • 2025

Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes.

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

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Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes.

Digest: Tells LPRO to conduct a study on education outcomes for students in this state.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Tells LPRO to conduct a study on education outcomes for students in this state.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes.
Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education 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: Tells LPRO to conduct a study on education outcomes for students in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education outcomes. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to education outcomes.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2740
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: Tells LPRO to conduct a study on education outcomes for students in this state. (Flesch
Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study regarding education
outcomes. Directs the director to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to education outcomes.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Legislative Policy and Research Director shall conduct a study re-
garding education outcomes for students who attend the public schools of this state in
kindergarten through grade 12. The study shall review:
(a) The relationship between funding and student education outcomes;
(b) The effect of the educational structure and policy decisions of this state on student
education outcomes; and
(c) The effect of the educational structure and policy decisions in other states on student
education outcomes.
(2) When conducting the study under this section, the director:
(a) Shall use academic, peer-reviewed studies on education policy; and
(b) May enter into a contract with a public, private or nonprofit research entity for the
purpose of conducting the study. When entering into a contract, the director shall give
preference, to the greatest extent practicable, to a public university listed in ORS 352.002.
(3) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS 174.111, are directed to assist the
director, and any entity working under contract with the director, in conducting the study
and, to the extent permitted by laws related to confidentiality, to furnish information and
advice necessary for the director or contractor to complete the study.
(4) The director shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 to the in-
terim 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.
LC 1255