l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

House Bill 4068

Allows High Cost Disabilities Account moneys to be distributed to school districts that have a community impact that causes disproportionately high costs associated with the provision of special education and related services.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on March 7, 2024. The 2024 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: Allows a school district to receive more money for special education when costs are high. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).</b> [<i>Digest: Prescribes process for DAS to prepare a budget for funding the State School Fund. Requires budgets of school districts be made public. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4).</i>] [<i>Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare a tentative budget for the funding of the State School Fund. Requires the department to form a committee for the purpose of preparing the tentative budget. Prescribes factors to be considered by the committee.</i>] [<i>Requires school districts to provide a financial summary to the Department of Education. Directs the department to withhold from a school district State School Fund payments if the unappropriated ending fund balance and reserves for the general fund of the school district exceeds the beginning fund balance of the general fund of the school district by a specified percentage. Requires the department to make public information related to the financial summaries.</i>] <b>Allows High Cost Disabilities Account moneys to be distributed to school districts that have a community impact that causes disproportionately high costs associated with the provision of special education and related services. <b>Takes effect on July 1, 2024.</b>

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Suzanne Weber

    Its course

    February 5 to March 7, 2024, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action7 actions on 4 days

    In the House of RepresentativesFeb 5 to Mar 7 · stopped31 days

    Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

    EducationFeb 5 to Feb 127 days

    Ways and MeansFeb 12 to Mar 7 · stopped24 days

    Amendments

    Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

    • House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

      Adopted Feb 12

    Text

    Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Feb 5 – Mar 7

    1. Feb 5Introduced
    2. Sent to Education
    3. Heard in Education
    4. Feb 7Heard in Education
    5. Feb 12Education recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
    6. Sent to Ways and Means
    7. Mar 7Died when the session ended
    All 7 actions, as published
    1. Feb 5First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
    2. Feb 5Referred to Education.House of Representatives
    3. Feb 5Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
    4. Feb 7Work Session held.House of Representatives
    5. Feb 12Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
    6. Feb 12Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker.House of Representatives
    7. Mar 7In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives