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2017 Legislative Bill Tracking
| Bill # | Sponsor | Companion Bill | Title/Description | Status | ||
| HB 1169 | Orwall | Enacting the student opportunity, assistance, and relief act. |
May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status |
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| SB 5074 | Frockt | Aligning eligibility for the college bound scholarship program with the state need grant program. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1440 | Stonier | Establishing a student loan bill of rights. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1978 | Kilduff | SB 5359 | Requiring annual reporting on the implementation of laws to streamline licensing processes for military service members and their spouses. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1057 | Orwall | SB 5022 | Providing information to students about education loans. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1238 | Pollet | Creating new full-time tenure track positions at the state's four-year public institutions of higher education. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1433 | Stambaugh | SB 5592 | Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| SB 5684 | Palumbo | Creating the higher education infrastructure investment program. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1840 | Pollet | SB 5666 | Establishing the Washington promise program. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| SB 5316 | Fortunato |
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May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading |
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| HB 1561 | Frame | Concerning open educational resources. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5820 | Wilson | Concerning financial aid at institutions of higher education. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5100 | Bailey | Requiring live financial literacy seminars for students at institutions of higher education. | May 4 - Governor signed. Chapter 177, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | |||
| SB 5826 | Hobbs | Concerning eligibility for veteran or national guard tuition waivers. |
April 25 - Governor signed. Chapter 127, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. |
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| HB 1052 | Sawyer | Repealing the requirement that credentialing authorities suspend a person's occupational credential for nonpayment or default of certain student loans. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1107 | Haler | Eliminating the term "branch" as an identifying factor for extensions of the public institutions of higher education. | April 19 - Governor signed. Chapter 52, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | |||
| HB 1115 | Bergquist | SB 5070 | Concerning paraeducators. | May 8 - Governor partially vetoed. Chapter 237, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | ||
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Haler | SB 5069 | Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety. |
May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status |
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| HB 1130 | Haler | SB 5381 | Making the customized training program permanent. |
April 17 - Governor signed. Chapter 21, 2017 Laws. Effective date 6/30/2017. |
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| HB 1168 | Gregerson | Supporting student success at community and technical colleges by increasing full-time faculty. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5832 | Wilson | Creating an academic bill of rights. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5731 | Chase | Requiring acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1237 | Sells | Modifying collective bargaining law to authorize providing additional compensation to academic employees at community and technical colleges. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5677 | Zeiger | Creating a leasehold excise tax exemption for certain leasehold interests in facilities owned or used by schools, colleges, or universities. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1282 | Tarleton | SB 5183 | Concerning career and technical education funding. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1293 | Ortiz-Self | Concerning witnessing a student's college bound scholarship pledge when efforts to obtain a parent's or guardian's signature are unsuccessful. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1304 | Kilduff | SB 5201 | Concerning individuals receiving both employment and community access services. |
May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status |
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| HB 2037 | Frame | Reauthorizing the work group concerned with removing obstacles for higher education students with disabilities. | May 4 - Governor signed. Chapter 175, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | |||
| HB 2009 | Reeves | Providing higher education support for gold star families. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1375 | Van Werven | Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials. |
April 21 - Governor signed. Chapter 98, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. |
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| HB 1379 | Orwall | Implementing a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention and behavioral health in higher education. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1404 | Tarleton | SB 5285 | Conducting a workforce study of employment opportunities in the agriculture, environment, and natural resources economic sectors intended to provide educators with the information needed for informing students about employment opportunities in the studied fields. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1425 | Kilduff | Creating the Washington next generation educational savings account pilot program. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1437 | Pollet | Adding a faculty member to the board of regents at the research universities. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1439 | Pollet | Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1737 | Volz | SB 5525 | Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1452 | Holy | SB 5361 | Concerning the opportunity scholarship program. | May 25 - Third reading, passed; yeas, 92; nays, 2; absent, 0; excused, 4. | ||
| HB 1488 | Hansen | Expanding higher education opportunities for certain students. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1499 | Pollet | Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1512 | Bergquist | Expanding college bound scholarship eligibility. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5585 | Ranker | Modifying the future teachers conditional scholarship and loan repayment program to increase the number of early elementary teachers. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5584 | Baumgartner | Concerning college and university presidents. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
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Springer | SB 5640 | Concerning technical college diploma programs. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| HB 1741 | Slatter | SB 5526 | Concerning preparation data for use by the professional educator standards board. | May 4 - Governor signed. Chapter 172, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | ||
| HB 1768 | Stambaugh | Concerning the Washington open educational resources pilot grant program at the state universities, regional universities, and The Evergreen State College. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1830 | Hudgins | Creating the cybersecurity conditional loan program. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| HB 1861 | Pollet | SB 5631 | Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | ||
| SB 5713 | Palumbo | Creating the skilled worker outreach, recruitment, and key training program. | May 5 - Governor signed. Chapter 225, 2017 Laws. Effective date 7/23/2017. | |||
| SB 5028 | McCoy | Requiring teacher preparation programs to integrate Native American curriculum developed by the office of the superintendent of public instruction into existing Pacific Northwest history and government requirements. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||
| SB 5064 | Fain | Concerning freedom of expression rights of students at public schools and institutions of higher education. | May 23 - By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status | |||