Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state.

Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study merit-based pay for the workforce in the state education system.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells the TSPC to study merit-based pay for the workforce in the state education system.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
• Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state.
• 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 merit-based pay for the workforce in the state education system. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state. 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 merit-based compensation.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3495
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 merit-based pay for the workforce in the state education
system. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to study the implications and neces-
sary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the workforce in kindergarten
through post-secondary education in this state. 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 merit-based compensation.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission shall study the impli-
cations and necessary changes of law to establish merit-based compensation for the
workforce in kindergarten through post-secondary education in this state. The commission
shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommen-
dations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to ed-
ucation 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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