Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to community colleges and public universities in this state that offer on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related degree or certificate programs.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3011
Ordered by the House April 14
Including House Amendments dated April 14
Sponsored by Representative NERON; Representatives FRAGALA, GAMBA, MUNOZ, NGUYEN H, PHAM H,
SOSA, WALTERS, WRIGHT, Senators BROADMAN, CAMPOS, FREDERICK, PATTERSON (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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act creates a fund for childhood teaching development at HECC. The Act declares
an emergency. The Act becomes law on July 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2).
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund and appropriates
moneys in the fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide funding to com-
munity colleges and public universities in this state that offer [ early childhood education degrees and
certificates] on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and education or related
degree or certificate programs .
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) There is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the
General Fund, the Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund. All moneys in
the fund are continuously appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for
purposes of carrying out this section.
(2) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall administer the fund.
(3) The fund consists of moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or transferred to the
fund by the Legislative Assembly or otherwise.
(4) The commission shall distribute moneys in the fund to those community colleges op-
erated under ORS chapter 341 and public universities listed in ORS 352.002 with early care
and education centers that offer on-the-job training for students enrolled in early care and
education or related degree or certificate programs. The funding must be used to stabilize
and expand needed early care and education slot capacity and must be allocated based on
each community college’s and public university’s early care and education slot capacity as
of September 1 of each year.
SECTION 2.
In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, for the biennium beginning July 1,
2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $5,000,000 which shall be transferred to the
Early Childhood Education Workforce Development Fund to carry out the purposes of sec-
tion 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
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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peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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