SB309 • 2025

Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate 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 the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education.

Digest: Tells the HECC to study health care for higher learning teachers.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Tells the HECC to study health care for higher learning teachers.
(Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education.
Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Education.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Tells the HECC to study health care for higher learning teachers. (Flesch Readability Score: 80.3).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education. Directs the commission to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later than September 15, 2026.
Relating to: Relating to health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 309
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Senate Interim Committee on Education)
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 the HECC to study health care for higher learning teachers. (Flesch Readability
Score: 80.3).
Requires the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study health care benefits for part-
time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of education. Directs the commission to submit
findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education not later
than September 15, 2026.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to health care benefits for part-time faculty members at post-secondary institutions of edu-
cation.
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 members at post-secondary institutions of education. 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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