Directs the Department of Education to provide oversight of a program that coordinates an in-state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3519
Sponsored by Representative BOWMAN, Senator GELSER BLOUIN, Representative MCINTIRE; Senator WEBER
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: Creates a program to provide for a cultural exchange for students. (Flesch Readability
Score: 64.9).
Directs the Department of Education to provide oversight of a program that coordinates an in-
state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state. Prescribes the requirements of the
program. Directs the department to transfer moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Ac-
count for the program.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a cultural exchange program; creating new provisions; amending ORS 327.254; and de-
claring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Education shall provide oversight of a program that,
under a contract between the department and a public or private entity, coordinates an in-
state and a national cultural exchange for students of this state.
(2) The program provided under a contract authorized by subsection (1) of this section
shall enable:
(a) Students in grade 12 to stay with a host family in another location of this state for
a week of experiences that allow students to explore similarities and differences in the poli-
tical, socioeconomic and cultural features of their place of residence and the location of the
exchange; and
(b) Graduates of a high school in this state who participated in an experience described
in paragraph (a) of this subsection to stay in another state for a week of experiences that
allow students to explore similarities and differences in the political, socioeconomic and cul-
tural features of their place of residence and the location of the exchange.
(3) The department shall assist the entity under contract with the department to ensure
that, to the greatest extent practicable, students representing a diversity of schools from a
diversity of school districts participate in the program.
(4) The entity under contract with the department, in a manner consistent with the
contract, may award grants to encourage students to participate in the program and to as-
sist students who are participating in the program.
SECTION 2.
(1) The Department of Education in collaboration with the entity under
contract as provided by section 1 of this 2025 Act shall ensure that, by July 1, 2028, and to
the greatest extent practicable, at least 1,000 students and 60 schools from 60 school districts
participate in the program described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
(2) No later than September 15, 2028, the department shall submit a report to the interim
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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committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education on the number of students,
school districts and schools that participated in the program described in section 1 of this
2025 Act. The report may recommend legislation related to the program.
SECTION 3.
(1) The Cultural Exchange Program Fund is established in the State Treas-
ury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned on the Cultural Exchange
Program Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) Moneys in the Cultural Exchange Program Fund are continuously appropriated to the
Department of Education for the purpose of providing funding for the program described in
section 1 of this 2025 Act, including the awarding of grants as described in section 1 (4) of
this 2025 Act.
(3) The department, on behalf of the State of Oregon, may solicit and accept gifts, grants
and donations from public and private sources for the purpose of the program described in
section 1 of this 2025 Act. Moneys received under this subsection shall be deposited into the
Cultural Exchange Program Fund.
(4) The Cultural Exchange Program Fund shall consist of moneys transferred from the
Statewide Education Initiatives Account, moneys appropriated or transferred to the fund by
the Legislative Assembly, moneys deposited as provided by subsection (3) of this section and
any other moneys deposited into the fund from any source.
SECTION 4. ORS 327.254, as amended by section 25, chapter 95, Oregon Laws 2024, is amended
to read:
327.254. (1) The Department of Education shall use moneys in the Statewide Education Initi-
atives Account to provide funding for statewide education initiatives, including:
(a) Funding the High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act at the levels
prescribed by ORS 327.856;
(b) Expanding school breakfast and lunch programs;
(c) Operating youth reengagement programs or providing youth reengagement services;
(d) Establishing and maintaining the Statewide School Safety and Prevention System under ORS
339.341;
(e) Developing and providing statewide equity initiatives, including any statewide education plan
developed and implemented by the department;
(f) Providing summer learning programs at schools that are considered high poverty under Title
I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965;
(g) Funding early warning systems to assist students in graduating from high school, as de-
scribed in ORS 327.367;
(h) Developing and implementing professional development programs and training programs, in-
cluding programs that increase educator diversity and retain diverse educators;
(i) Planning for increased transparency and accountability in the public education system of this
state;
(j) Providing additional funding to school districts participating in the intensive program under
ORS 327.222;
(k) Providing technical assistance, including costs incurred for:
(A) The coaching program described in ORS 327.214; and
(B) The intensive program described in ORS 327.222, including costs for student success teams;
(L) Funding public charter schools, as described in ORS 327.362;
(m) Funding the Early Literacy Success School Grant program, as provided by ORS 327.833;
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(n) Funding the Early Literacy Success Community Grant program, as established by ORS
327.843;
(o) Funding any additional amounts for approved recovery schools, as provided by rules of the
State Board of Education adopted under ORS 327.029;
(p) Funding education service districts, as described in subsection (2) of this section;
(q) Funding the Youth Corrections Education Program and the Juvenile Detention Education
Program through the Juvenile Justice Education Fund established under section 22, chapter 95,
Oregon Laws 2024, when necessary as provided by section 23, chapter 95, Oregon Laws 2024; [ and]
(r) Funding the in-state and national cultural exchange program described in section 1
of this 2025 Act through transfers to the Cultural Exchange Program Fund established by
section 3 of this 2025 Act; and
[(r)] (s) Funding costs incurred by the department in implementing this section and ORS 327.175
to 327.235 and 327.274.
(2)(a) The amount of a distribution to an education service district under this section shall be
made as provided by paragraph (b) of this subsection after calculating the following for each edu-
cation service district:
(A) One percent of the total amount available for distribution to education service districts in
each biennium.
(B) The education service district’s ADMw × (the total amount available for distribution to
education service districts in each biennium ÷ the total ADMw of all education service districts
that receive a distribution).
(b) The amount of the distribution to an education service district shall be the greater of the
amounts calculated under paragraph (a) of this subsection, except that, for distributions made as
provided by paragraph (a)(B) of this subsection, the total amount available for distribution to edu-
cation service districts shall be the amount remaining after any distributions required under para-
graph (a)(A) of this subsection have been made.
(c) For purposes of this subsection, ADMw equals the ADMw as calculated under ORS 327.013,
except that the additional amount allowed for students who are in poverty families, as determined
under ORS 327.013 (1)(c)(A)(v)(I), shall be 0.5.
(d) An education service district shall use moneys received under this section as provided by a
plan developed by the school districts located within the education service district. A school district
that declines to participate in the development of the plan or that has withdrawn from an education
service district as provided by ORS 334.015 is not entitled to any moneys distributed to the educa-
tion service district under this subsection.
(e) A plan developed under this subsection must:
(A) Align with and support the meeting of performance growth targets established for recipients
of moneys under ORS 327.195 that are located within the education service district;
(B) Include the provision, to recipients of moneys under ORS 327.195 that are located within the
education service district, of technical assistance in developing, implementing and reviewing a plan
for receiving a grant from the Student Investment Account;
(C) Provide for coordination with the department in administering and providing technical as-
sistance to recipients of moneys under ORS 327.195 that are located within the education service
district, including coordinating any coaching programs established under ORS 327.214; and
(D) Be adopted and amended as provided for local service plans under ORS 334.175 and approved
by the department.
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(f) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of this subsection, recipients of moneys under ORS 327.195
that are located within the education service district include, as applicable:
(A) Common school districts and union high school districts;
(B) Any charter school that is an eligible applicant, as defined in ORS 327.185; and
(C) The Youth Corrections Education Program or the Juvenile Detention Education Program.
(g) Each education service district must submit an annual report to the department that:
(A) Describes how the education service district spent moneys received under this subsection;
and
(B) Includes an evaluation of the education service district’s compliance with the plan from the
superintendent of each school district that participated in the development of the plan.
(3) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules necessary for the distribution of moneys un-
der this section.
SECTION 5.
For the 2025-2027 biennium, the Department of Education shall transfer the
amount of $2,150,000 from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account to the Cultural Ex-
change Program Fund established under section 3 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 6. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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