l9n/ Oregon

2024 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1502

Requires school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to make video recordings of governing body meetings or, if the public body's facilities lack broadband Internet access, to make audio recordings, and to post the video or audio recordings, as applicable, of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites.

Became law as Chapter 47, Oregon Laws 2024, signed March 27, 2024, 51 days after it was filed. In force from January 1, 2025.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.

<b>Digest: Requires most public schools and college boards to video record their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private or if a school district is very small. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.7).</b> [<i>Digest: Requires public schools and college boards to live stream their meetings and post the meeting recordings on their websites and social media sites. This does not apply if a meeting is private. Allows remote testimony for most school and college board meetings. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).</i>] [<i>Requires the governing bodies of school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to live stream governing body meetings, if technically practicable, and to post the recordings of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites. Excepts executive sessions. Requires educational institution governing bodies to also permit witnesses to testify via telephonic, electronic or virtual means if meetings also permit in-person oral testimony.</i>] <b>Requires school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to make video recordings of governing body meetings or, if the public body's facilities lack broadband Internet access, to make audio recordings, and to post the video or audio recordings, as applicable, of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites. Excepts executive sessions and does not apply to school districts with less than 50 students.</b>

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

5 co-sponsors

Janeen Sollman, Kim Thatcher, Suzanne Weber, James Manning Jr., Deb Patterson

In the House of Representatives

3 co-sponsors

Jules Walters, Boomer Wright, Janelle Bynum

Its course

February 5 to March 28, 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 action20 actions on 14 days

In the SenateFeb 5 to Feb 2116 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 5 to Feb 50 days

EducationFeb 5 to Feb 1914 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 21 to Mar 412 days

Waiting for a committeeFeb 21 to Feb 221 day

EducationFeb 22 to Mar 18 days

With the GovernorMar 4 to Mar 2723 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • Senate, third reading29–1

    Passed · Feb 21

  • House of Representatives, third reading55–1

    Passed · Mar 4 · 4 present

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Feb 19

Text

Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.

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What happened

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

In the Senate Feb 5 – Feb 21

  1. Feb 5Introduced
  2. Sent to Education
  3. Feb 6Heard in Education
  4. Feb 13Heard in Education
  5. Feb 19Education recommended it as amended
  6. Feb 20Read a second time
  7. Feb 21Passed the Senate, 29 to 1

In the House of Representatives Feb 22 – Mar 4

  1. Feb 22Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to Education
  3. Feb 26Heard in Education
  4. Feb 28Heard in Education
  5. Mar 1Education recommended it
  6. Mar 4Read a second time
  7. Passed the House of Representatives, 55 to 1

To the Governor Mar 6 – Mar 28

  1. Mar 6Signed in the Senate
  2. Signed in the House of Representatives
  3. Mar 27Signed by the Governor
  4. Mar 28Became chapter 47 of Oregon Laws 2024
  5. In force from January 1, 2025
All 20 actions, as published
  1. Feb 5Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
  2. Feb 5Referred to Education, then Ways and Means.Senate
  3. Feb 6Public Hearing held.Senate
  4. Feb 13Work Session held.Senate
  5. Feb 19Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and subsequent referral to Ways and Means be rescinded. (Printed A-Eng.)Senate
  6. Feb 19Subsequent referral rescinded by order of the President.Senate
  7. Feb 20Second reading.Senate
  8. Feb 21Third reading. Carried by President Wagner. Passed.Senate
  9. Feb 22First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
  10. Feb 22Referred to Education.House of Representatives
  11. Feb 26Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
  12. Feb 28Work Session held.House of Representatives
  13. Mar 1Recommendation: Do pass.House of Representatives
  14. Mar 4Second reading.House of Representatives
  15. Mar 4Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by McIntire, Ruiz. Passed.House of Representatives
  16. Mar 6President signed.Senate
  17. Mar 6Speaker signed.House of Representatives
  18. Mar 27Governor signed.Senate
  19. Mar 28Chapter 47, 2024 Laws.Senate
  20. Mar 28Effective date, January 1, 2025.Senate