SB755 • 2025

Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study possibilities for placing police officers or security guards in schools.

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Gorsek
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 Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study possibilities for placing police officers or security guards in schools.

Digest: The Act tells DPSST to study ways to place officers in schools and make a report.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells DPSST to study ways to place officers in schools and make a report.
(Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study possibilities for placing police officers or security guards in schools.
Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary 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 Judiciary.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells DPSST to study ways to place officers in schools and make a report. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study possibilities for placing police officers or security guards in schools. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to security in schools.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 755
Sponsored by Senator GORSEK (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 DPSST to study ways to place officers in schools and make a report.
(Flesch Readability Score: 79.5).
Requires the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study possibilities for
placing police officers or security guards in schools. Directs the department to submit findings to
the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary not later than September
15, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to security in schools.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training shall study possi-
bilities for placing police officers or security guards in schools. The department shall submit
a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may include recommendations for leg-
islation, to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to the judiciary 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.
LC 3132