Advocacy Toolkit
2024 Legislative Session Advocacy Toolkit
Click here for the 2023 Advocacy Toolkit
Support advocacy efforts during the 2024 Legislative Session by utilizing this Advocacy Toolkit. This toolkit can be utilized by college presidents, board members, Campus Advocacy Coordinators (CACs), college government affairs staff, students and other stakeholders. Contact OCCA Communications Director Casey White-Zollman with any questions.
Toolkit documents will be added throughout the Session as needed, so keep checking back for new resources!
Informational One-Pagers
These flyers can be used to help educate legislators on certain issues/bills. Feel free to email them to your legislators or leave them behind after an in-person meeting with them!
- Priority Bills & Ones to Watch
- Corequisite Education
- Student Aid Overview
- Semiconductor Workforce Needs – courtesy of Oregon Semiconductor Coalition
- HB 4162 Student Emergency Needs Package – courtesy of Oregon Student Association
Talking Points
Use these talking points when speaking with legislators during in-person, virtual or phone visits. They can also be used when speaking with faculty, staff, students, and other partners and stakeholders.
- Corequisite Education
- HB 4154 Semiconductor Workforce Needs – courtesy of Oregon Semiconductor Coalition
- Oregon Opportunity Grant
2023 Advocacy Toolkit
Support advocacy efforts during the 2023 Legislative Session by utilizing this Advocacy Toolkit. This toolkit can be utilized by college presidents, board members, Campus Advocacy Coordinators (CACs), college government affairs staff, students and other stakeholders. Contact OCCA Communications Director Casey White-Zollman with any questions.
Informational One-Pagers
2023 Legislative Priorities
2023 Budget Request
All CC Funding Requests
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Oregon Opportunity Grant (OOG)
Capital Construction Requests (list)
Capital Construction Requests (detail)
Testimony Templates
Utilize these templates for oral testimonies to the Joint Subcommittee on Education during public testimony on April 25, 2023
Board Member Templates
- Testimony Template Option 1 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 2 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 3 (budget)
- Testimony Template Option 4 (Oregon Opportunity Grant)
- Testimony Template Option 5 (CTE/Workforce)
Student Templates
