---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to community colleges offering baccalaureate degrees."
description: "Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Oregon SB 3 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Thomsen", "Dallas Heard", "Fred Girod", "Peter Courtney", "Rob Wagner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-14T15:33:37+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-17T15:46:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/738a104c-8f04-48ae-b1a0-6af2f22d6d94"
source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/SB3"
source_hash: "b57cf4f570ccf9e7472d249ceea5b97d0b3203b6f902e0e3ae08e9033f53903a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
---

# Oregon SB 3 (2019 Regular Session) — Relating to community colleges offering baccalaureate degrees.

Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB3/Introduced)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB3/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Heard and Reported Out — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Heard and Reported Out — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Reardon. Passed. — **45–10** (pass) · lower
- Third reading. Carried by Wagner, Courtney. Passed. — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chuck Thomsen — primary (person)
- Dallas Heard — primary (person)
- Fred Girod — primary (person)
- Peter Courtney — primary (person)
- Rob Wagner — primary (person)
- Alissa Keny-Guyer — cosponsor (person)
- Andrea Salinas — cosponsor (person)
- Anna Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Courtney Neron — cosponsor (person)
- Diego Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- E. Werner Reschke — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth Steiner Hayward — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Leif — cosponsor (person)
- Janeen Sollman — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Kim Thatcher — cosponsor (person)
- Laurie Monnes Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Dembrow — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Nearman — cosponsor (person)
- Rachel Prusak — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Lewis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-14T15:33:37+00:00** Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15T16:47:07+00:00** Referred to Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28T21:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2019-02-06T21:01:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-02-12T17:13:15+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12T20:29:02+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-02-19T19:52:50+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Wagner, Courtney. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-20T17:27:34+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25T16:52:35+00:00** Referred to Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-06T22:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2019-05-08T22:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-05-14T22:57:10+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-15T16:49:35+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16T18:33:40+00:00** Carried over to May 17, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-17T18:57:34+00:00** Carried over to May 20, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-20T19:29:22+00:00** Carried over to May 21, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-21T19:06:09+00:00** Carried over to May 22, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-23T03:28:37+00:00** Carried over to May 23, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-24T04:43:42+00:00** Carried over to May 27, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-27T18:12:22+00:00** Carried over to May 28, 2019 Calendar by virtue of adjournment.
- **2019-05-28T21:57:16+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Reardon. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-30T22:42:41+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-05-31T02:15:48+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-06-06T22:58:20+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-17T15:45:02+00:00** Chapter 255, 2019 Laws.
- **2019-06-17T15:46:43+00:00** Effective date, January 1, 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/738a104c-8f04-48ae-b1a0-6af2f22d6d94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).