Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools.

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 Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools.

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study opportunities to hire a person to work in a school even if the person has been convicted of some crimes.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study opportunities to hire a person to work in a school even if the person has been convicted of some crimes.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3).
• Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools.
• Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study opportunities to hire a person to work in a school even if the person has been convicted of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employment in public schools. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to consideration of criminal convictions in school settings.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3061
Sponsored by Representative TRAN, Senator GORSEK (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 the TSPC to study opportunities to hire a person to work in a school even
if the person has been convicted of some crimes. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study opportunities to modernize
the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to people seeking employ-
ment in public schools. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to consideration of criminal convictions in school settings.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall study opportunities
to modernize the background check process and criminal history standards that apply to
people seeking employment in public schools. The commission 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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