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Senate hearing backs creating Oregon Campus Resilience Consortium to coordinate higher‑education emergency response

2779264 · March 26, 2025
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Summary

Senate Bill 2‑31 would appropriate $1.526 million to establish a statewide consortium for higher‑education emergency response, continuity and recovery. Supporters cited lessons from campus shootings, disease outbreaks and natural disasters; bill sponsors and witnesses asked for seed funding to stand up training, mutual aid and online resources.

Senate Bill 2‑31 would appropriate $1,526,167 from the general fund to create an Oregon Campus Resilience Consortium to support emergency response, continuity and recovery at postsecondary institutions. A dash‑1 amendment described in committee testimony changes the recipient to the University of Oregon’s Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities and Environments to establish the Oregon Disaster Resilience Consortium; the measure declares an emergency and would take effect July 1, 2025.

Senator James Manning Jr., who introduced the…

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