SB543 • 2025

Directs the Department of Transportation to translate student driver education curriculum and student driver instructor curriculum into the Spanish language and post the materials on the department's website.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Sollman
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.

Directs the Department of Transportation to translate student driver education curriculum and student driver instructor curriculum into the Spanish language and post the materials on the department's website.

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to translate student driver education and instructor guides into Spanish.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells ODOT to translate student driver education and instructor guides into Spanish.
ODOT must put the materials on its website.
ODOT must also offer printed copies but may charge a fee to cover the costs of printing.
ODOT must update the guides every three years.

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: The Act tells ODOT to translate student driver education and instructor guides into Spanish. ODOT must put the materials on its website. ODOT must also offer printed copies but may charge a fee to cover the costs of printing. ODOT must update the guides every three years. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7).
Directs the Department of Transportation to translate student driver education curriculum and student driver instructor curriculum into the Spanish language and post the materials on the department's website. Directs the department to provide printed copies and authorizes the department to charge a fee to cover the printing costs.
Relating to: Relating to traffic safety education.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 543
Sponsored by Senator SOLLMAN (at the request of Centro Cultural de Washington County) (Presession filed.)
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 ODOT to translate student driver education and instructor guides into
Spanish. ODOT must put the materials on its website. ODOT must also offer printed copies but may
charge a fee to cover the costs of printing. ODOT must update the guides every three years. (Flesch
Readability Score: 61.7).
Directs the Department of Transportation to translate student driver education curriculum and
student driver instructor curriculum into the Spanish language and post the materials on the
department’s website. Directs the department to provide printed copies and authorizes the depart-
ment to charge a fee to cover the printing costs.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to traffic safety education.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall translate the student driver ed-
ucation curriculum and the student driver education instructor curriculum into the Spanish
language and provide links to the curriculum on the department’s website.
(2) The department shall also make printed copies available for purchase and may charge
a fee to cover the printing costs.
(3) The translated materials must be updated at least once every three years.
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.
LC 2444