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Committee moves two HEC-related bills to the floor and joint Ways and Means with due‑pass recommendations
Summary
The House Higher Education Committee gave due‑pass recommendations to House Bill 2695 (presidential search committee membership at OHSU) and House Bill 3053 (pilot speech‑language pathology training program), recording roll‑call support and sending the measures onward for floor or budgetary consideration.
During the March 27 meeting of the House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, committee members took formal action on two pieces of legislation in work sessions.
House Bill 2695: The committee heard a staff summary that the bill would require the hiring committee for the president of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to include representatives of the university community and at least one president of a public university; it would also give the OHSU Board of Directors authority to require inclusion of at least one faculty member, one nonfaculty staff member and one student representative on the presidential search committee, and to allow labor organization representatives to provide comments to the governing board when requested in advance.
Representative Fragola moved a "do pass" recommendation to the floor on House Bill 2695. The roll call recorded: Representative Finger McDonald — Aye; Representative Muñoz — Aye; Representative Wright — excused; Representative Youngberg — No; Vice Chair Fragle — Yes; Vice Chair Harvick — Aye; Chair Hudson — Aye. The motion carried. Representative Fragle agreed to carry the bill to the floor.
House Bill 3053: Committee staff summarized that HB 3053 appropriates $40,000 to the University of Oregon for a pilot program to train speech‑language pathology students to serve children in overnight summer camps. Representative Fregelek moved a "do pass" recommendation to be referred to the Joint Ways and Means Committee by prior reference. Roll call recorded: Representative Finger McDonald — Aye; Representative Muñoz — Aye; Representative Wright — excused; Representative Juncker — Yes; Vice Chair Franklin — Yes; Vice Chair Harvick — Aye; Chair Hudson — Aye. The motion carried. The committee closed the work session on HB 3053 and moved on to public hearings.
Both measures were advanced by the committee for further consideration; the speech‑language pilot was referred to Ways and Means as a prior reference.
