HB3220 • 2025

Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative Nathanson,, Senator Prozanski, Representative Walters,
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.

Digest: The Act tells the OSBN to make a rule about the ratio of students to faculty in some parts of nursing education programs.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the OSBN to make a rule about the ratio of students to faculty in some parts of nursing education programs.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.
Relating to: Relating to nursing education.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-28 House
Public Hearing held.
2025-01-17 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
2025-01-13 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the OSBN to make a rule about the ratio of students to faculty in some parts of nursing education programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.
Relating to: Relating to nursing education.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3220
Sponsored by Representative NATHANSON, Senator PROZANSKI (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 OSBN to make a rule about the ratio of students to faculty in some
parts of nursing education programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1).
Directs the Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules to require a certain student-to-faculty
ratio in the clinical component of nursing education programs.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to nursing education.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 678.010 to
678.410.
SECTION 2. (1) The Oregon State Board of Nursing shall adopt rules to require a
student-to-faculty ratio of at least 10 students to one faculty member in the clinical compo-
nents of nursing education programs. The board may adopt rules to allow a ratio of up to
15 students to one faculty member in circumstances determined by the board.
(2) The ratios described in subsection (1) of this section do not apply to simulation ex-
periences in nursing education programs.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act applies a nursing education program’s clinical
component beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
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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