SB544 • 2025

Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have 1,000 or more enrolled students.

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.

Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have 1,000 or more enrolled students.

Digest: The Act requires vaping detectors to be installed in certain high schools.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act requires vaping detectors to be installed in certain high schools.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have 1,000 or more enrolled students.
Relating to: Relating to the installation of vaporizing detection devices in high schools.

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 requires vaping detectors to be installed in certain high schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7).
Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have 1,000 or more enrolled students.
Relating to: Relating to the installation of vaporizing detection devices in high schools.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 544
Sponsored by Senator SOLLMAN (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 requires vaping detectors to be installed in certain high schools. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 67.7).
Requires vaporizing detection devices to be installed in certain areas of high schools that have
1,000 or more enrolled students.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the installation of vaporizing detection devices in high schools.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Inhalant” has the meaning given that term in ORS 433.835.
(b) “Vaporizing detection device” means a device capable of detecting vapor created from
an instrument used to vaporize an inhalant.
(2) Each school district shall:
(a) Ensure that a vaporizing detection device is installed in all student bathrooms and
common areas at each high school in the district that has a student enrollment that is
greater than 1,000.
(b) Establish written policies and rules regarding disciplinary action for students who
are, by means of a vaporizing detection device or otherwise, discovered to be vaporizing an
inhalant. A school district’s policies and rules established under this paragraph may not in-
clude suspension or expulsion.
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 3358