House Higher Education Committee advances four bills to referral or the floor

The Oregon House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development on March 25 adopted amendments and advanced four committee bills, moving them either to the House floor or to Joint Ways and Means for further review.

House Bill 2421: The committee adopted the -3 amendments that add private nonprofit institutions to the direct admissions program administered by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and moved the bill to the House floor with a “do pass” recommendation. Representative Fraggala moved both the amendments and the bill. A roll-call on the motion recorded committee members voting in favor; the motion carried and Representative Fraggala volunteered to carry the bill on the floor.

House Bill 2747: The committee adopted the -1 amendment, which narrows the original bill’s scope to implement the first stage of the Oregon Department of Corrections’ online…