Senate Bill 905 would remove the statutory requirement that school districts, education service districts and schools keep printed copies of Healthy and Safe School Plans and related testing results while still requiring those entities to maintain a website where the plans and results are posted.

Senator Kathleen Taylor, sponsor of SB 905, told the Senate Education Committee that the 2017 law (Senate Bill 1062) required both online posting and a paper copy on hand and that SB 905 would "remove this administrative burden and eliminate the requirement for keeping physical records of the healthy and safe schools plan." She said the change would not "affect the public's access to key information on the safety of Oregon schools." Senator Taylor said paper copies would still be printed on request.

Joe Krelier, director of risk management for Portland Public Schools, told the committee Portland Public Schools supports the bill. He said the district currently posts its Healthy and Safe School Plan and test results online and has not received requests to inspect the paper copies stored at district headquarters since the 2017 requirement took effect. "We will continue to post all these results and our HASP plan in a transparent and accessible way to the public," Krelier said.

Committee members asked about language access for documents posted online. Krelier said the district website supports multiple interface languages (he estimated five) but that uploaded test results are usually lab reports or spreadsheets and are not automatically translated. He added that the district maintains translation staff who can assist in providing translated content on request.

Supporters said the bill is intended to reduce administrative time and costs of maintaining paper archives without removing public access. The committee closed the hearing on SB 905 without taking action during the session.

Because this hearing was informational, no motions or votes were recorded during the committee session on SB 905.