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HB3456 • 2025

Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.

Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.

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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 Boice
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 district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.

Digest: Tells schools and libraries to have a policy for Internet use by minors.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: Tells schools and libraries to have a policy for Internet use by minors.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
  • Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors.
  • Prescribes the requirements of the policies.

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. 2025-02-06 House

    Referred to Education.

  3. 2025-02-04 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells schools and libraries to have a policy for Internet use by minors. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).
Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Internet safety for students and minors. Prescribes the requirements of the policies.
Relating to: Relating to Internet safety policies for minors.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3456
Sponsored by Representative BOICE
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 schools and libraries to have a policy for Internet use by minors. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 63.4).
Requires district school boards and public library boards to adopt policies to provide for Inter-
net safety for students and minors. Prescribes the requirements of the policies.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Internet safety policies for minors.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) Each district school board shall adopt a policy to provide for the Internet
safety for students of the school district.
(2) A policy adopted under this section must apply to:
(a) All situations in which a student accesses the Internet through school district re-
sources, including school libraries, online subscriptions, online academic activities and cur-
ricula that use technology; and
(b) All technology purchased, used or made available to the students of the school dis-
trict.
(3) A policy adopted under this section must:
(a) Require the school district to comply with the federal Children’s Internet Protection
Act, 47 U.S.C. 254;
(b) Establish a process by which a member of the public may submit a report of any
concerns about the Internet safety for students of the school district and a process by which
the school district may investigate and respond to a report; and
(c) Require the school district annually to submit to the district school board and to
make available on the school district’s website a summary of any reports received under
paragraph (b) of this subsection and the outcomes of the reports.
(4)(a) A school district that does not comply with the provisions of this section is con-
sidered to be nonstandard under ORS 327.103.
(b) A school district that does not comply with the provisions of this section is not eli-
gible to receive matching funds under ORS 357.790.
SECTION 2.
Section 3 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 357.400 to
357.621.
SECTION 3. (1) Each public library board shall adopt a policy to provide for the Internet
safety for minors at a public library.
(2) A policy adopted under this section must apply to:
(a) All situations in which a minor accesses the Internet through public library re-
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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sources; and
(b) All technology purchased, used or made available to minors at the public library.
(3) A policy adopted under this section must:
(a) Require the public library to comply with the federal Children’s Internet Protection
Act, 47 U.S.C. 254;
(b) Establish a process by which a member of the public may submit a report of any
concerns about the Internet safety for minors at the public library and a process by which
the public library may investigate and respond to a report; and
(c) Require the public library annually to submit to the public library board and to make
available on the public library’s website a summary of any reports received under paragraph
(b) of this subsection and the outcomes of the reports.
(4)(a) A governing body may withdraw support for a public library that does not comply
with the provisions of this section as provided by ORS 357.621.
(b) A public library that does not comply with the provisions of this section is not eligible
to receive matching funds under ORS 357.790.
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