Oregon Senate Bill 321

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Spectrum: Unknown
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-17 - Referred to Education, then Ways and Means.
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

The Act would make the TSPC create by rule two types of licenses for people who want to be a substitute teacher. The Act would make the TSPC create by rule a way for people with a restricted substitute teaching license to get a regular substitute teaching license. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.8). Directs the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to establish by rule a substitute teaching license and a restricted substitute teaching license. Requires the commission to establish by rule an expedited process for persons with a restricted substitute teaching license to obtain a substitute teaching license. Directs the commission, in consultation with the Oregon Substitute Teachers Association, to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to education no later than December 15, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

Relating to the licensure of substitute teachers; declaring an emergency.

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Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-17	Senate	Referred to Education, then Ways and Means.
2025-01-13	Senate	Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Type	Source
Summary	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB321
Text	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB321/Introduced
Supplement	https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/84518