Signed by Governor Kate Brown

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes a timeline for petition to make changes in boundaries of community college districts.

Highlights:

• Limits the petition circulation period for forming the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) to 90 days after the first signature on the petition is recorded (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the HECC to provide a public hearing when a public facility does not exist in the petitioned territory, by allowing the HECC to seek a facility as near as possible to the territory (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that the HECC may resubmit orders to the legislative assembly if the orders are not acted upon without holding a public hearing (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the HECC to submit a proposed boundary change to a community college district to a vote if a remonstrance period is filed with the HECC within 20 days after the HECC enters the original order and signed by at least 5 percent, or 500 of the electors, whichever is less (Sec. 2).

• Establishes that district property shall remain with a district regardless of physical location in the event of a district boundary change (Sec. 2).

• Requires payments on bonded debt continue to be paid in the event of a community college district boundary change (Sec. 3).

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