Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SJR25: Proposing an amendment to the Oregon Constitution relating to education budgets.
Status: Chaptered, March 17, 2026
Digest: The measure would make the legislature pass the schools budget early in each long session. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require the Legislative Assembly, in each odd-numbered year regular session, to appropriate moneys to fund public education in the first 80 days of the session and before passing any other budget measure. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, January 10, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session Senate Joint Resolution Sponsored by Senator BONHAM (at the request of Senator Noah Robinson) (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 measure would make the legislature pass the schools budget early in each long session. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require the Legislative Assembly, in each odd-numbered year regular session, to appropriate moneys to fund public education in the first days of the session and before passing any other budget measure. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for their approval or rejection at the next regular general election. JOINT RESOLUTION Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon: PARAGRAPH 1. The Constitution of the State of Oregon is amended by creating a new section 35 to be added to and made a part of Article IV, such section to read: SECTION 35. (1) Within the first 80 days after the commencement of each odd-numbered year regular session, the …
Sponsors
- Daniel Bonham (R, 26) · primary sponsor