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1 | Council of Presidents: Reports, Work Groups and Task Forces Required by State Law | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | This is a summary of current and relevant reports, work groups and task forces required by Washington state law. This is not a complete list of statutes that reference Washington public institutions of higher education or related state agencies. Additional details about reporting requirements can be found in the accompanying PDF document. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Report to the Legislature can be found here: https://app.leg.wa.gov/reportstothelegislature/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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5 | Updated 7.7.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Focus | RCW | Requirement | Lead Entity | Report Recipient | Frequency | Due Date | Expiration Date | ||||||||||||||||
7 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.270 | A member of the Washington National Guard or any other military reserve component who is a student at an institution of higher education and who is ordered for a period exceeding 30 days to either active or inactive state or federal service and as a result of that service or a follow-up medical treatment for injury incurred during that service misses any of the following: class, test, examination, laboratory, class day on which a written or oral assignment is due, or other event upon which a course grade or evaluation is based, is entitled to make up these events without prejudice to the final course grade or evaluation | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
8 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.696 | Each public baccalaureate institution must publish a list of recommended courses for each academic major designed to help students who are planning to transfer design their course of study. The requirements to publish a list of recommended courses for each academic major does not apply if an institution does not require courses or majors to meet specific requirements but generally applies credits earned towards degree requirements | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
9 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.696 | Each public baccalaureate institution must develop a minimum of one degree within the arts and sciences disciplines that can be completed within the equivalent of 90 quarter upper division credits by any student who enters an a public, baccalaureate institution with junior status and lower division general education requirements completed | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.696 | Must develop a list of academic courses that are equivalent to one-year’s worth of general education credit and that would transfer for that purpose to any other two or four-year institution of higher education. If a student completes one-year’s worth of general education credits, the student may be issued a one-year academic completion certificate. This certificate shall be accepted at any transferring two or four-year institution of higher education | Each institution of higher education and SBCTC | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
11 | Academic Affairs | 28B.137.010 | Institutions of higher education must develop policies to accommodate student absences for up to two days per academic year, to allow students to take holidays for reasons of faith or conscience or for organized activities conducted under the auspices of a religious denomination, church, or religious organization, so that students’ grades are not adversely impacted by the absences | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
12 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.118 | Report on their plans for the accelerated baccalaureate degree programs to WSAC for approval. All public baccalaureate institutions may develop accelerated baccalaureate degree programs that will allow academically qualified students to obtain baccalaureate degrees in three years without attending summer classes or enrolling in more than a full-time class load during the regular academic year. | Each institution of higher education | WSAC | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
13 | Academic Affairs | 28B.10.590 | Adopt rules requiring that: Affiliated bookstore: provide students the option of purchasing materials that are unbundled when possible, disclose to faculty and staff the costs to students of purchasing materials, and disclose publicly how new editions vary from previous editions; actively promote and publicize book buy-back programs; disclose retail costs for course materials on a per course basis to faculty and staff and make this information publicly available; and disclose information to students on required course materials including but not limited to title, authors, edition, price, and International Standard Book Number (ISBN) at least four weeks before the start of the class for which the materials are required. each designate in their online course descriptions used by students for registration purposes whether a course uses open educational resources or low-cost required instructional materials. If a course's required textbooks and course materials are not determined prior to registration due to an unassigned faculty member, the textbooks' and course materials' low-cost or open educational resource designation must be provided as soon as feasible after a faculty member is assigned | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
14 | Academic Affairs | 28B.124.030 | All institutions of higher education, as defined in RCW 28B.10.016, must establish a policy for granting as many credits as possible and appropriate, for related supplemental instruction in active state apprenticeship programs, registered during or before July 1, 2022, by the 2028-29 school year. For all state registered apprenticeship programs approved after July 1, 2022, all institutions of higher education, as defined in RCW 28B.10.016, must establish a policy for granting as many credits, as possible and appropriate, for related supplemental instruction within six years of the program's registration. | Each institution of higher education | N/A | N/A | 2028-29 AY | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Business/IT | 43.19.727 | Shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature providing verifiable information regarding the effects of the technical assistance under RCW 43.19.725(3) is having on the number of small businesses actually receiving state contracts for goods and services. | All state purchasing agencies | Legislature | Every 2 years | 11.15.17 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
16 | Business/IT | 43.17.390 | Shall apply to the Washington state quality award, or similar organization, for an independent assessment of its quality management, accountability, and performance system. | Each state agency | Washington State Quality Award Organization | Every 3 years | 7.13.19 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
17 | Business/IT | 39.19.060 | Shall comply with the annual goals established for that agency or institution under this chapter for public works and procuring goods or services. Shall adopt a plan, developed in consultation with the director and the advisory committee, to ensure that minority and women-owned businesses are afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to directly and meaningfully participate in the execution of public contracts for public works and goods and services. | Each state agency | Women and Minority Business Enterprises | Annually | N/A | N/a | ||||||||||||||||
18 | Business/IT | 42.30.077 | Must make the agenda of each regular meeting of the governing body available online no later than twenty-four hours in advance of the published start time of the meeting | Public agencies with governing boards | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
19 | Business/IT | 28B.15.120 | Must specifically approve in an open public meeting, the annual budget for its programs for intercollegiate athletic competition in advance of any expenditure for that fiscal year. | Each institution of higher eduation | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
20 | Business/IT | 43.19.727 | Must use the web-based information system created by GA to capture data regarding the number of registered small businesses that have been awarded state procurement contracts, the percentage of total state dollars spent for goods and services purchased from registered small businesses and the number of registered small businesses that have bid on but were not awarded state purchasing contracts. | All state purchasing agencies | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
21 | Business/IT | 43.19A.022 | Purchase 100% recycled content white cut sheet bond paper used in office printers and copiers. | All state agencies | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
22 | Business/IT | 43.17.095 | In any instance where a state agency requires that a business submit a document, form, or payment of a fee in paper format, the state agency must provide the business an option to submit such requirement electronically. Agencies must document how they plan to transition from paper to electronic forms. | All state agencies | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
23 | Business/IT | 43.105.205 | The powers of the Office of Chief Information Officer and the provisions with regard to this Office apply to business and administrative applications but do not apply to academic and research applications and medical, clinical, and health care applications, including the business and administrative applications for such operations. Institutions of higher education must disclose to the Office any proposed academic applications that are enterprise-wide in nature relative to the needs and interests of other institutions of higher education. | Institutions of higher education | OCIO | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
24 | Business/IT | 38.52.030 | Responsible for developing an organizational continuity of operations plan that is updated and exercised annually in compliance with the program for interagency coordination of continuity of operations planning. | All state agencies | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
25 | Business/IT | RCW 39.26.210 | A list of all contracts that the agency has entered into or renewed. | All state agencies | Department of Enterprise Services | Annually | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
26 | Business/IT | 43.19.733 | Shall utilize print management services brokered by the Department of Enterprise Services. The director of OFM may exempt a state agency from the requirements of this section. | All state agencies | Department of Enterprise Services | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
27 | Business/IT | 43.19.736 | Requiring services of a print shop may use public printing services provided by DES. If a print job is put out for bid, DES must be included in the bid solicitation. | All state agencies with a total annual average FTE staff that exceeds 1,000 | Department of Enterprise Services | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
28 | Business/IT | 43.19.745 | Shall cooperate with the DES in efforts to standardize envelopes. | All state agencies with a total annual average FTE staff that exceeds 500 | Department of Enterprise Services | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
29 | Business/IT | 43.19.725 | Must maintain records of state purchasing contracts awarded to registered small businesses in order to track outcomes and provide accurate, verifiable information regarding the effects of technical assistance from the state purchasing and material control director. | All state agencies | Department of Enterprise Services | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
30 | Capital | 70A.45.050 | Shall meet the statewide greenhouse gas emission limits established in RCW 70A.45.020 to achieve the following, using the estimates and strategy established. Shall report to the department, and to the state efficiency and environmental performance office at the department of commerce, the actions planned for the next two biennia to meet emission reduction targets and the actions taken to meet the emission reduction targets established in this section. The report must also include the agency's long-term strategy for meeting the emission reduction targets established in this section, which the agency shall update as appropriate. | All state Agnecies | Department of Commerce, State Efficiency/Environmental Performance Office | Each even-numbered year | 6.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
31 | Capital | SB 5200 Section 8034, 2023 Session Law | Each public four-year higher education institutions shall prepare and submit prioritized lists of the individual projects proposed by the institution for the ensuing six-year period in each category. | Each institution of higher education | OFM | Each even-numbered year | 8.1.23 | Suspended or the 2023-25 biennium | ||||||||||||||||
32 | Capital | SB 5200 Section 8034, 2023 Session Law | Each public four-year higher education institutions shall prepare and submit prioritized lists of the individual projects proposed by the institution for the ensuing six-year period in each category. | Each institution of higher education | OFM | Each even-numbered year | 8.1.23 | Suspended or the 2023-25 biennium | ||||||||||||||||
33 | Capital | 43.82.150 | The inventory system to account for all facilities owned or leased by state government at OFM must be updated by all agencies, departments, boards, commission and institutions | Each institution of higher eduation | OFM | Annually | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
34 | Capital | 39.10.460 | A public body shall provide to the board the following information for each job order contract for the period July 1st through June 30th:(1) A list of work orders issued; (2) The cost of each work order; (3) A list of subcontractors hired under each work order; (4) If requested by the board, a copy of the intent to pay prevailing wage and the affidavit of wages paid for each work order subcontract; and (5) Any other information requested by the board | A public body | CPARB | Annually | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
35 | Data Reporting/Collection | 28B.118.090 | Shall ensure data needed to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the college bound scholarship program is promptly transmitted to the ERDC so that it is available and easily accessible. | Institutions of higher education and ERDC | WSAC | Every year thereafter | 12.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
36 | Data Reporting/Collection | 28B.77.090 | Shall report data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, state and county of origin, age, and socioeconomic status, and include the following for the four-year institutions of higher education: (a) Bachelor’s degrees awarded; (b) Graduate and professional degrees awarded; (c) Graduation rates: The number and percentage of students who graduate within four years for bachelor’s degrees and within the extended time, which is six years for bachelor’s degrees; (d) Transfer rates: The annual number and percentage of students who transfer from a two-year to a four-year institution of higher education; (e) Time and credits to degree: The average length of time in years and average number of credits that graduating students took to earn a bachelor’s degree; (f) Enrollment in remedial education: The number and percentage of entering first-time undergraduate students who place into and enroll in remedial mathematics, English, or both; (g) Success beyond remedial education: The number and percentage of entering first-time undergraduate students who complete entry college-level math and English courses within the first two consecutive academic years; (h) Credit accumulation: The number and percentage of first-time undergraduate students completing two quarters or one semester worth of credit during their first academic year; (i) Retention rates: The number and percentage of entering undergraduate students who enroll consecutively from fall-to-spring and fall-to-fall at an institution of higher education; (j) Course completion: The percentage of credit hours completed out of those attempted during an academic year; (k) Program participation and degree completion rates in bachelor and advanced degree programs in the sciences, which includes agriculture and natural resources, biology and biomedical sciences, computer and information sciences, engineering and engineering technologies, health professions and clinical sciences, mathematics and statistics, and physical sciences and science technologies, including participation and degree completion rates for students from traditionally underrepresented populations; (l) Annual enrollment: Annual unduplicated number of students enrolled over a twelve-month period at institutions of higher education including by student level; (m) Annual first-time enrollment: Total first-time students enrolled in a four-year institution of higher education; (n) Completion ratio: Annual ratio of undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates, of at least one year in expected length, awarded per one hundred full-time equivalent undergraduate students at the state level; (o) Market penetration: Annual ratio of undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates, of at least one year in program length, awarded relative to the state’s population age eighteen to twenty-four years old with a high school diploma; (p) Student debt load: Median three-year distribution of debt load, excluding private loans or debts incurred before coming to the institution; (q) Data related to enrollment, completion rates, participation rates, and debt load shall be disaggregated for students in the following income brackets to the maximum extent possible: (i) Up to seventy percent of the median family income; (ii) Between seventy-one percent and one hundred twenty-five percent of the median family income; and (iii) Above one hundred twenty-five percent of the median family income; (r) Yearly percentage increases in the average cost of undergraduate instruction; (s) Ratio of fall headcount students to fall headcount faculty appointments; (t) Annualized ratio of full-time equivalent students to annualized full-time equivalent nonfaculty positions; (u) Net position for theacademy as defined by the national center for education statistics, integrated postsecondary education data system data glossary (2022); (v) Annual primary reserve ratio as measured by expendable net assets to total expenses; (w) Cash on hand as calculated by the ratio of total cash on hand for the academy divided by operating expenses for the academy minus noncash expenses divided by 365; (x) Viability ratio as measured by unrestricted and expendable net assets, not including capital projects expendable net assets, divided by total debt; (y) Ratio of total expendable net assets for the academy as defined by the national center for education statistics, integrated postsecondary education data system data glossary (2022) per full-time equivalent student; (z) Total market value of college or university endowment holdings; and (aa) Total annual market value of college or university endowment earnings, the amount of the annual earnings that remain in the endowment after fees are removed, and the percentage of the annual remaining endowment earnings after fees are removed to total annual market value of college or university endowment earnings. | Institutions of higher education | ERDC | Annually | 12.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
37 | Data Reporting/Collection | 28B.10 | Institutions of higher education must enter into data-sharing agreements with the office of the superintendent of public instruction to facilitate the transfer of high school student directory information collected under section 2 of this act for the purposes of informing Washington high school students of postsecondary educational opportunities available in the state. | Institutions of higher education and ERDC | OSPI | N/A | 1.1.24 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
38 | Data Reporting/Collection | SB 5187, Sec. 612(10), 2023 Session | Submit a progress report on the new or expanded cybersecurity and nursing academic programs that receive funding in sections 605 through 611 of this act, including the number of students enrolled. The council must coordinate with the institutions of higher education and the state board for community and technical colleges as provided in sections 603(3), 605(31), and 605(37) of this act. | Institutions of higher eduation | WSAC | N/A | 12.1.224 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
39 | Data Reporting/Collection | 28B.77.100 | Requires state-approved educator preparation programs to collect, provide data to, and enter into data-sharing agreements with the Education Research and Data Center (ERDC). Requires ERDC to hold, analyze, and make the data on educator preparation available for research and monitoring by the Professional Educator Standards Board, state-approved educator preparation programs, and other researchers with appropriate data-sharing agreements | Institutions of higher education | PESB | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
40 | Dual Credit | 28B.10.053 | The institutions of higher education shall collaboratively develop a master list of postsecondary courses that can be fulfilled by taking the advanced placement, international baccalaureate, or other recognized college-level proficiency examinations, including but not limited to examinations by a national multidisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program, and meeting the qualifying examination score or demonstrated competencies for lower division general education requirements or postsecondary professional technical requirements. The master list of postsecondary courses fulfilled by proficiency examinations or demonstrated competencies are those that fulfill lower division general education requirements or career and technical education requirements and qualify for postsecondary credit. From the master list, each institution shall create and publish a list of its courses that can be satisfied by successful proficiency examination scores or demonstrated competencies for lower division general education requirements or postsecondary professional technical requirements. The qualifying examination scores and demonstrated competencies shall be included in the published list. The requirements to develop a master list under this section do not apply if an institution has a clearly published policy of awarding credit for the advanced placement, international baccalaureate, or other recognized college-level placement exams and does not require those credits to meet specific course requirements but generally applies those credits towards degree requirements. Each institution of higher education must clearly include in its admissions materials and on its website the credits or the institution's list of postsecondary courses that can be fulfilled by proficiency examinations or demonstrated competencies and the agreed-upon examination scores and demonstrated competencies that qualify for postsecondary credit. Each institution must provide the information to the student achievement council and state board for community and technical colleges in a form that the superintendent of public instruction is able to distribute to school districts. | Each institution of higher education | WSAC | Each odd-numbered year | June | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
42 | Dual Credit | RCW 28A.600.310 | In collaboration with relevant student associations, shall aim to have all students who can benefit from low-income Running Start fee waivers take advantage of these waivers. Institutions shall make every effort to communicate to students and their families the benefits of such waivers and provide assistance to students and their families on how to apply. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
43 | Dual Credit | 28B.10.054 | Must establish a coordinated, evidence-based policy for granting as many undergraduate college credits, as possible and appropriate, to students who have earned minimum scores of three on AP exams, four on standard level and higher-level international baccalaureate exams or scores of E (e) or higher on A and AS level Cambridge international exams. Credit policy regarding all AP and IB exams must be posted on campus web sites effective for the 2019 fall academic term and by the 2020 fall academic term for Cambridge exams. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
44 | Dual Credit | 28A.600.287 | Shall coordinate with an organization representing the presidents of the public four-year institutions of higher education, and the community and technical colleges offering college in the high school courses shall coordinate with the state board for community and technical colleges to each prepare a report, each disaggregated by institution of higher education, that includes: (i) Data about student participation rates, award of high school credit, award of postsecondary credit at an institution of higher education, academic performance, and subsequent enrollment in an institution of higher education; (ii) Geographic data on college in the high school courses, including the name, number, location of courses, and student enrollment disaggregated by school districts and high schools; (iii) Data on college in the high school student demographics, including race, ethnicity, gender, and receipt of free or reduced price lunch; and iv) Recommendations on additional categories of data reporting and disaggregation. | Institutions of higher education and COP | Legislature | Each year thereafter | 9.1.24 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
45 | Dual Credit | 28A.600.287 | Must: (a) Award college credit to a student enrolled in a program course and provide evidence of completion of each program course on the student's college transcript; (b) Grant undergraduate college credit as appropriate and applicable to the student's degree requirements; and Provide course equivalencies for college in the high school courses and policy for awarding credit on the institution's website. | Institutions of higher education offering CiHS courses | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
46 | Dual Credit | 28B.10 | Must provide enrollment and registration in college in the high school courses in which a student is eligible to receive college credit available at no cost for students in the ninth, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade at public high schools. | Institutions of higher education offering CiHS courses | N/A | N/A | 9.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
47 | Dual Credit | 28B.10.054 | Must conduct biennial reviews of their AP, IB and Cambridge international credit policies and report noncompliance. | Institutions of higher education | Legislature | Each biennium | 11.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
48 | Dual Credit | 28A.600.310 | In consultation with school districts, may establish admission standards for eligible students. If the institution of higher education accepts a secondary school student for enrollment under this section, the institution of higher education shall send written notice to the student and the student's school district within 10 days of acceptance. The notice shall indicate the course and hours of enrollment for that student. The course sections and programs offered as running start courses must be open for registration to matriculated students at the participating institution of higher education and may not be a course consisting solely of high school students offered at a high school campus. | Institutions of higher education offering Running Start | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
49 | Financial Aid | 28B.10.285 | Beginning December 1, 2019, and biannually thereafter until December 25, 2025, the organizations under subsection (8) of this section must submit a report in compliance with RCW 43.01.036 to the legislature that details how the educational institutions are in compliance with this section. | COP, an organization representing the private nonprofit institutions, SBCTC, WTECB, and DOL | Higher Education committees of the Legislature | Biennial | 12.1.19 | 25-Dec-25 | ||||||||||||||||
50 | Financial Aid | 28B.10.285 | An educational institution must provide to an enrolled student who has applied for student financial aid a notification including the following information about the student education loans the educational institution has certified: (a) An estimate, based on information available at the time the notification is provided, of the: (i) Total amount of student education loans taken out by the student; (ii) Potential total payoff amount of the student education loans incurred or a range of the total payoff amount, including principal and interest; (iii) The monthly repayment amount that the student may incur for the amount of student education loans the student has taken out, based on the federal loan repayment plan borrowers are automatically enrolled in if they do not select an alternative repayment plan; (iv) A statement that income-driven repayment plans may allow a federal student loan borrower to reduce their monthly payment according to a percentage of their income, and a brief summary of the potentially applicable plans; and (v) Percentage of the aggregate federal direct loan borrowing limit applicable to the student's program of study the student has reached at the time the information is sent to the student; and Consumer information about the differences between private student loans and federal student loans, including a brief overview of the availability of income-driven repayment plans and loan forgiveness programs for federal loans. | Institutions of higher education | Higher Education committees of the Legislature | Biennial | 12.1.19 | 25-Dec-25 | ||||||||||||||||
51 | Financial Aid | 28B.93.030 | Ensure institutions of higher education have a policy for awarding student loans under the program that prioritizes funding for eligible students who have greater unmet financial need, are lowest income, are first generation college students, are demographically underrepresented, do not qualify for federally funded student financial aid, or who have received loans under the program in prior years. | Institutions of higher education | WSAC | Annual | 12.1.27 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
52 | Financial Aid | 28B.92.005 | Must provide financial aid application due dates and distribution policies on institutional websites, including whether financial aid is awarded on a rolling basis for prospective and admitted students | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
53 | Personnel/Human Resources | 43.41.275 | The report must include the following information: (a) The number of employees from the previous fiscal year; (b) The number of employees classified as individuals with disabilities; (c) The number of employees that separated from the state agency the previous year; (d) The number of employees that were hired by the state agency the previous year; (e) The number of employees hired from the division of vocational rehabilitation services and from the department of the services for the blind the previous year; (f) The number of planned hires for the current year; and (g) Opportunities for internships for the department of social and health services' division of vocational rehabilitation and developmental disabilities administration, and the department of the services for the blind client placement, leading to an entry-level position placement upon successful completion for the current year. | State agencies employing 100 or more people | Human Resources Director, Director of the Department of Social and Health Services' Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Governor's Disability Employment Task Force | Annual | 1.31.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
54 | Personnel/Human Resources | 43.41.275 | The report must include the following information: (a) The number of employees from the previous fiscal year; (b) The number of employees classified as individuals with disabilities; (c) The number of employees that separated from the state agency the previous year; (d) The number of employees that were hired by the state agency the previous year; (e) The number of employees hired from the division of vocational rehabilitation services and from the department of the services for the blind the previous year; (f) The number of planned hires for the current year; and (g) Opportunities for internships for the department of social and health services' division of vocational rehabilitation and developmental disabilities administration, and the department of the services for the blind client placement, leading to an entry-level position placement upon successful completion for the current year. | State agencies employing 100 or more people | Human Resources Director, Director of the Department of Social and Health Services' Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Governor's Disability Employment Task Force | Annual | 1.31.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
55 | Personnel/Human Resources | 28B.10.423 | Shall contract with the state actuary under chapter 41.44 RCW for an actuarial experience study of the mortality, service, compensation, and other experience of the annuity or retirement income plans created in this chapter, and into the financial condition of each system. | Each institution of higher education responsible for payment of supplemental amounts | State Actuary | Every six years | 6.30.13 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
56 | Personnel/Human Resources | 42.16.010 | For state officers and employees whose appointment to state service begins July 1, 2023, or thereafter, payment for salaries must be made by electronic funds transfer. Payment will be deemed to have been made by the established paydate if the electronic funds transfer has been executed. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 7.1.23 | Note: UW subject to requirement on 7.1.25 | ||||||||||||||||
57 | Personnel/Human Resources | 28B.112.080 | Prior to an official offer of employment to an applicant, a postsecondary educational institution shall request the applicant to sign a statement: (a) Declaring whether the applicant is the subject of any substantiated findings of sexual misconduct in any current or former employment or by any association with which the applicant has, or has had, a professional relationship, is currently being investigated for, or has left a position during an investigation into, a violation of any sexual misconduct policy at the applicant's current and past employers, and, if so, an explanation of the situation; (b) Authorizing the applicant's current and past employers or relevant associations to disclose to the hiring institution any sexual misconduct committed by the applicant and making available to the hiring institution copies of all documents in the previous employer's personnel, investigative, or other files relating to sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, by the applicant; and (c) Releasing the applicant's current and past employers or relevant associations, and employees acting on behalf of that employer or association, from any liability for providing information described in (b) of this subsection. A postsecondary educational institution may not hire an applicant who does not sign the statement. Public institutions of higher education shall share best practices with all faculty and staff who are likely to receive reference check requests about how to inform and advise requesters to contact the institution's appropriate official office for personnel record. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 10.1.20 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
58 | Personnel/Human Resources | 28B.112.080 | Prior to an official offer of employment to an applicant, a postsecondary educational institution shall: (a) Request in writing, electronic or otherwise, that the applicant's current and past postsecondary educational institution employers, or relevant associations when a finding has been declared by the applicant, provide the information, if any, described in subsection (1)(b) of this section. The request must include a copy of the declaration and statement signed by the applicant under subsection (1) of this section; and (b) Ask the applicant if the applicant is the subject of any substantiated findings of sexual misconduct, or is currently being investigated for, or has left a position during an investigation into, a violation of any sexual misconduct policy at the applicant's current and past employers, and, if so, an explanation of the situation. Pursuant to (c) of this subsection, after receiving a request under subsection (2)(a) of this section, a postsecondary educational institution shall provide the information requested and make available to the requesting institution copies of documents in the applicant's personnel record relating to substantiated findings of sexual misconduct. | Instiutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 7.1.21 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
59 | Personnel/Human Resources | 43.88.583 | For collective bargaining agreements negotiated by institutions of higher education must: (a) Provide OFM with a searchable version of the tentatively agreed to collective bargaining agreements to be posted on OFM’s web site within forty days of submitting the agreements to OFM; (b) Submit revisions and modifications to agreements to the OFM within ten days of the agreement being signed by both parties; and (c) Submit a summary of each agreement to OFM by December 10th of the year in which a master agreement was negotiated or within fifteen days of a contract revision. | Institutions of higher education negotiated collective bargaining agreements | OFM | Year master agreement negotiated | 12.10.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
60 | Personnel/Human Resources | SB 5187 Section 601, 2023 Laws | Shall report personnel data to OFM for inclusion in the agency’s data warehouse. | Institutions of higher education | OFM | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
61 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.147 | Conduct a campus climate assessment to understand the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the learning, working, and living environment on campus for students, faculty, and staff. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | Every 5 years | 7.25.21 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
62 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.147 | Shall report findings or progress in completing their campus climate assessment and, when applicable, information on their listening and feedback sessions annually to either the state board for community and technical colleges or an organization representing the presidents of the public four-year institutions of higher education. | Institutions of higher education | COP | Annual | 7.1.22 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
63 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.145 | Must: (a) Provide professional development, either existing or new, focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism for faculty and staff. This program must be developed in partnership with the institution's administration, faculty, staff, and student leadership groups. Efforts must be made to ensure the program is developed and delivered by individuals with innate and acquired experience and expertise in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The content framework for professional development must be posted on each institution's public website for parents and community members. The professional development must begin in the 2022-23 academic year; (b) Create an evaluation for professional development participants. The evaluations must, at minimum, capture a participant's level of satisfaction with the professional development opportunity, the degree to which the learning objectives were achieved, and how the knowledge gained may be applied to their work; (c)(i) Share completed evaluations of program participants annually with either the state board for community and technical colleges or an organization representing the presidents of the public four-year institutions of higher education, depending on the institution; and (ii) submit curriculum and other pertinent information regarding the program | Institutions of higher education | COP | N/A | 2022-23 AY | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
64 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.906 | Shall maintain and publicly report actual findings of violations by any student organization, athletic team, or living group of the public or private institution of higher education's code of conduct, antihazing policies, or state or federal laws relating to hazing or offenses related to alcohol, drugs, sexual assault, or physical assault. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | 45 calendar days before fall term/10 days before other terms | 2022-23 AY | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
65 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.907 | Shall provide hazing prevention education on the signs and dangers of hazing as well as the institution's prohibition on hazing to employees, including student employees, either in person or electronically. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 2022 fall term | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
66 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.904 | Shall provide students with an educational program on hazing and the dangers of and prohibition on hazing, which shall include information regarding hazing awareness, prevention, intervention, and the institution's policy on hazing. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 2022 fall term | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
67 | Student Affairs | 28B.77.850 | May implement a program to provide assistance to students experiencing homelessness and to students who were in the foster care system when they graduated high school. The four-year institutions of higher education participating in the program shall annually provide a joint report that includes at least the following information: (a) The number of students experiencing homelessness or food insecurity, and the number of students who were in the foster care system when they graduated high school who attended a four-year institution of higher education during the program. The council shall coordinate with all of the four- year institutions of higher education to collect voluntary data on how many students experiencing homelessness or food insecurity are attending the four-year institutions of higher education (b) The number of students assisted by the program; (c) Strategies for accommodating students experiencing homelessness or food insecurity and former foster care students; and (d) Legislative recommendations for how students experiencing homelessness or food insecurity, and former foster care students could be better served. For purposes of this section, "program" means the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program. | Institutons of higher education | Legislature | Annual | 12.1.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
68 | Student Affairs | 28B.112.050 | Shall report the following to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature: (a) Summaries of any campus climate assessments conducted since June 11, 2020, that are designed to gauge the prevalence of sexual misconduct on college and university campuses; (b) Efforts to reach out to and capture information from students who have traditionally been marginalized or experience disproportionate impacts of systemic oppression based on, for example, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and disability; (c) How information obtained in the assessments was used to design and improve policies, programs, and resources for the campus community; and (d) The impacts of chapter 335, Laws of 2020 on institutional hiring practices, campus safety, and other relevant considerations. | Institutions of higher education | Governor and leigslature | N/A | 12.1.23 | 6.1.24 | ||||||||||||||||
69 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.149 | Must: (a) Provide a program, either existing or new, on diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism to students beginning with the 2024-25 academic year. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 2024-25 AY | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
70 | Student Affairs | 28B.10 | Must each develop a hunger-free and basic needs campus strategic plan. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | 4.1.24 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
71 | Student Affairs | 28B.10 | Shall coordinate with an organization representing the presidents of the public four-year institutions to submit a report that must include outcomes from implementation of benefits navigators and findings and activities from their respective hunger-free and basic needs campus strategic plans. | Institutions of higher educatoin | COP | Every Other Year | 12.1.25 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
72 | Student Affairs | HB 1559 | The pilot program to provide free and low-cost meal plans or food vouchers to eligible low-income students is established at: (a) Four college districts, two on each side of the crest of the Cascade mountains, selected by the state board for community and technical colleges; and (b) Two public four-year institutions of higher education, one on each side of the crest of the Cascade mountains, selected by an organization representing the presidents of public four-year institutions. | Institutions of higher education | COP | N/A | N/A | 7.1.26 | ||||||||||||||||
73 | Student Affairs | 28B.117.040 | Shall include on their applications for admission or on their registration materials a question asking whether the applicant has been in state, tribal, or federal foster care in Washington state or experienced unaccompanied homelessness under the parameters in RCW 28B.117.030(3)(a), as determined by the office, with an explanation that financial and support services may be available. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
74 | Student Affairs | 28B.112.020 | Shall develop and distribute policies and procedures for handling complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Institutional sexual violence policies should include, but are not limited to, information about the institution’s Title IX compliance officer or other individuals at the institution responsible for handling sexual violence violations and potential criminal conduct. Institutions shall annually distribute these policies and procedures in writing or electronically to all students and employees | Institutions of higher eduation | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
75 | Student Affairs | 28B.112.020 | Shall make information available on an annual basis to all current and prospective students and employees regarding the institution's policy and procedures, the responsible employee to receive complaints, and compliance with campus sexual violence confidentiality and reporting requirements set forth in 34 C.F.R. Sec. 668.46(b)(11)(iii). Institutions of higher education shall make the resources in subsection (1) of this section and other information and support available on a confidential basis to all campus sexual assault survivors, regardless of whether the survivor chooses to proceed with a formal report of sexual assault. | Institutions of higher educatoin | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
76 | Student Affairs | 28B 110.030 | Shall develop and distribute policies and procedures for handling complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Institutional sexual violence policies should include, but are not limited to, information about the institution’s Title IX compliance officer or other individuals at the institution responsible for handling sexual violence violations and potential criminal conduct. Institutions shall annually distribute these policies and procedures in writing or electronically to all students and employees. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
77 | Student Affairs | 28B.112.010 | Shall refrain from establishing a different disciplinary process on the same campus for a matter of sexual violence, based on the status or characteristics of the student involved in that disciplinary proceeding, including characteristics such as a student's membership on an athletic team, membership in a fraternity or sorority, academic year, or any other characteristics or status of a student. | Institutons of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
78 | Student Affairs | 28B.118.080 | Encouraged to tailor advising resources for any enrolled student who is the recipient of a College Bound Scholarship. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
79 | Student Affairs | 28B.10.905 | Shall establish a hazing prevention committee to promote and address hazing prevention. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
80 | Tuition | 28B.15.045 | Shall post services and activities fees expenditure information for the prior academic year on the college or university web site so that the information is clearly visible and easily accessible to students and the public. At a minimum, the services and activities fees budget information must include all the major categories of expenditure and the amounts expended in each category. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | Annual | 9.30.23 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
81 | Tuition | 28B.10.294 | Shall report on transcript and registration holds used as debt collection tools, including: (1) Each institution's policy on when transcript and registration holds are used, including the time frames and amounts for which holds are to be used and the lowest amount for which an institution assigns a debt to a third-party collection agency; (2) The number of official transcripts and registration privileges being withheld by each institution; and (3) The number of past-due accounts assigned to third-party collection agencies. | Institutions of higher education | Governor and higher education committees | Annual | 12.1.20 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
82 | Tuition | 28B.15.0681 | Must disclose to their undergraduate resident students on the tuition billing statement, in dollar figures for a full-time equivalent student: (a) The full cost of instruction; (b) The amount collected from student tuition and fees; and (c) The difference between the amounts for the full cost of instruction and the student tuition and fees (noting that this difference was paid by state tax moneys and other moneys. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
83 | Tuition | 28B.15.071 | When a decision is being considered to change an existing degree program that is supported by state funding to a program that is self-supporting and fee-based higher education institutions must publicly notify prospective students, including notification in admission offers with an estimate of tuition/fees, notify enrolled students and undergraduate or graduate student government associations at least six months before implementation with an estimate of tuition and fees, and allow students currently enrolled in the program to continue in the state-supported program structure for a consecutive amount of time no greater than four years in length. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
84 | Tuition | 28B.15.558 | The governing boards of the state universities, the regional universities, The Evergreen State College, and the community and technical colleges may waive all or a portion of the tuition and services and activities fees for state employees as defined under subsection (2) of this section, teachers and other certificated instructional staff under subsection (3) of this section, and K-12 classified staff under subsection (4) of this section. Each institution of higher education that awards waivers under this section must report annually to the student achievement council with the number, type, and value of waivers awarded under this section in the prior academic year and must compare this information with other tuition and fee waivers awarded by the institution. | Institutions of higher education | WSAC | Annual | N/A | |||||||||||||||||
85 | Tuition | 28B.10.293 | May, in the control and collection of any debt or claim due owing to it, impose reasonable financing and late charges, as well as reasonable costs and expenses incurred in the collection of such debts, if provided for in the note or agreement signed by the debtor. Institutions of higher education may not do any of the following for the purposes of debt collection, unless the debts are related to nonpayment of tuition fees, room and board fees, or financial aid funds owed: (a) Refuse to provide an official transcript for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt; (b) Condition the provision of an official transcript on the payment of the debt, other than a fee charged to provide the official transcript; (c) Charge a higher fee for obtaining the official transcript, or provide less than favorable treatment of an official transcript request because a student owes a debt; or (d) Use transcript issuance as a tool for debt collection. | Institutions of higher education | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
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