73rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2005 Regular Session
Enrolled
Senate Bill 364
Sponsored by Senator SCHRADER, Representative SCOTT
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AN ACT
Relating to education task force; appropriating money; and
declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. { + (1) The Workforce 2005 Task Force is created
for the purpose of examining career and professional technical
education in grades 7 through 12 and higher education as a
unified system that integrates education with workforce and
economic development.
(2) The Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, the Chancellor of the Oregon
University System, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and
the Commissioner for Community College Services shall jointly
appoint the members of the task force as follows:
(a) Four members from business and industry;
(b) One member who serves as a regional professional technical
education coordinator;
(c) One member from the State Workforce Investment Board;
(d) One member who serves as a chairperson of a local workforce
investment board;
(e) One member who serves as an instructor or administrator of
a professional technical education program at a public
institution of higher education;
(f) One member who serves as an instructor or administrator of
a professional technical education program at a private
institution of higher education;
(g) One member who serves as an instructor or administrator of
a professional technical education program at a community
college;
(h) Two members who serve as instructors of a professional
technical education program at a high school;
(i) One member from the Employment Department;
(j) One member from the Economic and Community Development
Department;
(k) One member from the Office of Professional Technical
Education at the Department of Education;
(L) One member from the Department of Community Colleges and
Workforce Development;
(m) One member who serves as the Education and Workforce Policy
Advisor; and
(n) One member from the Department of Human Services.
(3) The duties of the task force include:
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(a) Reviewing available funding sources to determine the amount
of moneys that should be appropriated to adequately fund career
and professional technical education in grades 7 through 12 and
in higher education;
(b) Reviewing and reporting data about the two-plus-two program
and about student success in career and professional technical
education programs, and making recommendations about changes in
the programs and the names of the programs so that the programs
and names greater reflect the strong natural ties between
education and workforce and economic development;
(c) Examining and making recommendations for innovative and
cost-effective funding models of career and professional
technical education programs and associated student leadership
programs at high schools, community colleges and public and
private institutions of higher education;
(d) Examining the ability to access high-quality career and
professional technical education programs at high schools,
community colleges and public and private institutions of higher
education;
(e) Reviewing existing investments in distance education and
making recommendations for building new partnerships that
increase the capacity for delivering high-quality career and
professional technical education across the state;
(f) Reviewing the status of teacher education programs and
making recommendations for establishing quality teacher education
programs for professional technical education teachers; and
(g) Working in groups based on teacher endorsement areas for
the purpose of identifying practices that lead to high student
performance in each endorsement area and identifying the barriers
and costs for implementing those practices.
(4) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes a
quorum for the transaction of business.
(5) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the members of the task force who are present.
(6) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson.
(7) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing
authorities shall make an appointment to become immediately
effective.
(8) The task force shall meet at times and places specified by
the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of
the task force.
(9) The task force may adopt rules necessary for the operation
of the task force.
(10) The task force shall report its findings and
recommendations to the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly and to
any interim committee related to education in the manner provided
by ORS 192.245 no later than October 1, 2007.
(11) The Department of Education shall provide staff support to
the task force.
(12) Members of the task force are not entitled to compensation
or reimbursement for expenses, and serve as volunteers on the
task force.
(13) All agencies of state government, as defined in ORS
174.111, are directed to assist the task force in the performance
of its duties and, to the extent permitted by laws relating to
confidentiality, to furnish such information and advice as the
members of the task force consider necessary to perform their
duties.
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(14) The Department of Education may accept contributions of
moneys and assistance from the United States Government or its
agencies or from any other source, public or private, and agree
to conditions placed on the moneys not inconsistent with the
duties of the task force.
(15) All moneys received by the Department of Education under
subsection (14) of this section shall be paid into the State
Treasury and deposited in the General Fund to the credit of the
Department of Education. The moneys are continuously appropriated
to the Department of Education for the purposes of carrying out
the duties of the task force. + }
SECTION 2. { + There is appropriated to the Department of
Education, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $83,411 for the purposes of carrying
out the duties of the Workforce 2005 Task Force. + }
SECTION 3. { + Section 1 of this 2005 Act is repealed on
January 2, 2008. + }
SECTION 4. { + This 2005 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2005 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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Passed by Senate June 27, 2005
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Secretary of Senate
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President of Senate
Passed by House July 11, 2005
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Speaker of House
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Received by Governor:
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Approved:
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Governor
Filed in Office of Secretary of State:
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Secretary of State
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