Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state.

Digest: The Act directs the HECC to study health care for certain higher learning faculty.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act directs the HECC to study health care for certain higher learning faculty.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
• Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state.
• Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act directs the HECC to study health care for certain higher learning faculty. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to health care benefits for part-time faculty.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3607
Sponsored by Representative HUDSON
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 directs the HECC to study health care for certain higher learning faculty.
(Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-
time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state. Directs the commission to
submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education
not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to health care benefits for part-time faculty.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall study health care
benefits for part-time faculty at public universities and community colleges in this state. The
commission shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include
recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly re-
lated to higher 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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