Bill Text: OR HB2511 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 2511 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to professional organizations that represent public education providers; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2511 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2511-Introduced.html



     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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                         House Bill 2511

Sponsored by Representative SPRENGER (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.

  Prohibits school districts and education service districts from
expending moneys on membership dues paid to professional
organizations that represent education service district boards,
school district boards or school administrators under certain
conditions.
  Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2011.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to professional organizations that represent public
  education providers; creating new provisions; amending ORS
  328.542, 332.105 and 334.240; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 328.542 is amended to read:
  328.542.  { + (1) + } Subject to the Local Budget Law (ORS
294.305 to 294.565) and to sections 11 and 11b, Article XI,
Oregon Constitution, each school district board shall prepare
annually or biennially the budget of the school district and
shall certify ad valorem property taxes to the assessor as
provided by law.
   { +  (2) A budget prepared under this section may not provide
for the payment of any dues for membership in a professional
organization that represents school district boards or school
administrators if the amount available for providing educational
services, as defined by the State Board of Education by rule,
decreases from the amount available in the previous annual or
biennial budget. + }
  SECTION 2. ORS 332.105 is amended to read:
  332.105. (1) The general duties of district school boards are:
  (a) To cause to be used in the district state blanks, registers
and other forms, whenever supplied and required by the state.
  (b) To perform such other duties as the wants of the district
may from time to time demand.
  (2)  { + Subject to ORS 328.542, + } the district school board
may participate in the activities of and may become members of
associations of school boards.   { - When provided for in an
approved school district budget, the board may pay from school
district funds annual dues to such association. - }
  SECTION 3. ORS 334.240 is amended to read:
  334.240. (1) The education service district board shall be
subject in all respects to the Local Budget Law (ORS 294.305 to
294.565), except that in addition to other qualifications,
members of the budget committee who are not members of the
education service district board shall be members of component
school district boards within the education service district or
shall be designees of a school district board.
  (2) Notwithstanding ORS 294.336 and 294.341, a majority of the
members of the budget committee of an education service district
must consist of members of the component school district boards
or designees of a school district board. The budget committee may
meet to conduct business if the education service district board
is unable to fill all of the positions on the budget committee.
  (3) The board of the education service district shall prepare
and adopt a budget for the operational and administrative
expenses of the education service district. The budget { + :
  (a) + } Shall include amounts necessary to provide services
required by the local service plan of the district developed
under ORS 334.175.
   { +  (b) May not provide for the payment of any dues for
membership in a professional organization that represents
education service district boards, school district boards or
school administrators if the amount available for providing
services required by the local service plan of the district
developed under ORS 334.175 decreases from the amount available
in the previous budget. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + The amendments to ORS 328.542 and 334.240 by
sections 1 and 3 of this 2011 Act first apply to budgets prepared
on or after the effective date of this 2011 Act. + }
  SECTION 5.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect July 1,
2011. + }
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