HB3475 • 2025

Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with academic content standards.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Representative McIntire
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with academic content standards.

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study teacher licensing.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study teacher licensing.
(Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with academic content standards.
Directs the commission 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.
2025-02-06 House
Referred to Education.
2025-02-04 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study teacher licensing. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with academic content standards. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to teacher licensing requirements.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3475
Sponsored by Representative MCINTIRE
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 teacher licensing. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the requirements to obtain
a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists between the requirements and the
qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational instruction in accordance with aca-
demic content standards. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to education no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to teacher licensing requirements.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall study the re-
quirements to obtain a teaching license to determine whether a reasonable nexus exists be-
tween the requirements and the qualifications necessary for a teacher to deliver educational
instruction to children in accordance with the grade-specific academic content standards
adopted by the State Board of Education under ORS 329.045.
(2) The commission shall analyze and determine whether the requirements to obtain a
teaching license to deliver educational instruction to children in kindergarten through grade
three exceed the qualifications necessary for a teacher to satisfy the grade-specific academic
content standards adopted by the State Board of Education under ORS 329.045.
(3) The commission shall submit a report on the findings 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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