Law / United States / 
Oregon
Oregon public university sexual orientation and gender identity questions on demographic forms and use of a student's preferred first name
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Data subject rights, Reporting
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Public university listed in ORS 352.002: allow all students, faculty and staff to identify the person's sexual orientation and gender identity on any form used to collect demographic data that includes gender, race or ethnicity (ORS 352.274(1)).
- Public university: make the demographic data collected under ORS 352.274(1) available to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission in the format the Commission determines (ORS 352.274(2)).
- Public university: to the extent allowed by federal law, permit enrolled students to use a preferred first name other than the legal first name on course and grade rosters, directory listings, advisor lists, identification cards and diplomas (ORS 352.281(1)(a)).
- Public university: use the legal first name of enrolled students on official transcripts and enrollment verification documents (ORS 352.281(2)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
ORS 352.274 and 352.281 require a public university to let students, faculty and staff state their sexual orientation and gender identity on demographic forms, to pass that data to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and to use a student's preferred first name on listed campus records. They name no log, no audit and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
ORS 352.274 requires each public university listed in ORS 352.002 to allow all students, faculty and staff to identify the person's sexual orientation and gender identity on any forms used to collect demographic data that includes gender, race or ethnicity. Each public university must make that demographic data available to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission in the format the Commission determines.
ORS 352.281 requires each public university, to the extent allowed by federal law, to permit enrolled students to use a preferred first name other than the student's legal first name on course and grade rosters, directory listings, advisor lists, identification cards and diplomas. A public university must use the legal first name of enrolled students on official transcripts and enrollment verification documents. Chapter 670, Oregon Laws 2015 (Senate Bill 473), took effect on . Sections 1 and 2 of the Act apply to all forms or campus records created or updated for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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