Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB3199: Relating to school attendance; and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, August 7, 2025
Digest: Directs LPRO to study how to improve the rate that students are at school and the State Board of Education to adopt a policy based on the study. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.5). [ Digest: Enacts many directives to study, track and improve the rate of students being at school. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5). ] Requires the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a study on statewide attendance initiatives. Directs the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee to review the study and to recommend for adoption by the State Board of Education a policy regarding the improvement of school attendance. [ Requires the department to make available to the public data provided to the department by school districts and public charter schools related to students who are regular attenders and students who are chronically absent. ] [ Directs the department to develop best practices related to student absences and to develop a common coding system for school districts to record and report student absences. ] [ Modifies requirements and allowed uses of grants awarded to school districts to implement a parent notification and early warning system. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, June 26, 2025:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session House Bill 3199 Sponsored by Representative NGUYEN H, Senator WEBER; Representatives BOWMAN, CHAICHI, CHOTZEN, DOBSON, FAHEY, FRAGALA, GAMBA, GOMBERG, GRAYBER, HELM, HUDSON, ISADORE, KROPF, LEVY B, LEVY E, LIVELY, MARSH, MCDONALD, MCLAIN, NATHANSON, NELSON, NGUYEN D, NOSSE, RIEKE SMITH, SANCHEZ, WALTERS, WATANABE, WRIGHT, Senators FREDERICK, REYNOLDS (Presession filed.) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to school attendance; and declaring an emergency. ATTENDANCE STUDY SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section, "statewide attendance initiative" includes any statewide policies, grant programs, support programs, communication strategies, attendance campaigns, community partnerships or other initiatives implemented with the intent of improving school attendance. (2) The Legislative Policy and Research Director shall conduct a study regarding: (a) Statewide attendance initiatives implemented in this state since the 2017-2018 school year; and (b) Statewide policies providing for the collection of attendance data. (3) In relation to statewide attendance initiatives implemented, as described in subsection (2)(a) of this section, the director shall review: (a) The original goal of the initiative and how that goal was intended to improve school attendance. (b) Any differences between how the initiative was intended to be implemented and how the initiative was actually implemented. (c) The effectiveness of the initiative in improving school attendance. (d) How the level of available funding impacted the effectiveness of the initiative. (e) Other barriers …