(1) The Department of Education shall develop a form for public education programs to use when a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 336.495

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.

(2) The form required under this section must describe academic accommodations that a public education program may make for a student who has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury. The accommodations must be optional for a public education program to provide and must be nonmedical.

(3)(a) The department must distribute the form developed under this section to public education programs.

(b) The department must make the form developed under this section available for use by educators and other program employees, students, parents and guardians.

(4)(a) A public education program must make the form developed under this section available as soon as practicable to an educator, a program employee, a student, a parent or a guardian when:

(A) The public education program receives notice that a student has been diagnosed with a concussion or other brain injury; or

(B) Requested by an educator, a program employee, a student, a parent or a guardian.

(b) Nothing in this subsection requires a public education program to provide any or all of the academic accommodations described on the form.

(5) The State Board of Education may adopt any rules necessary for the implementation of this section. [2020 c.3 § 1]

 

[1961 c.364 1,2,3; 1965 c.100 § 157; renumbered 332.470]

 

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