WA HB1189

Schools must notify parent volunteer applicants about the process to submit criminal innocence or rehabilitation documents, including expungements, pardons, certificates of rehabilitation, or certificates of restoration of opportunity

Parents with criminal convictions who provide rehabilitation documentation and sign a statement confirming no subsequent convictions cannot be denied volunteer positions based on past convictions

Schools evaluating parents without rehabilitation documentation must consider time since last conviction and whether crimes involved minor victims, and may consider the parent's age at offense or limiting unsupervised access as an alternative to denial

Schools must notify parents of volunteer application decisions within 5 days, provide specific reasons for any denial, and allow appeals to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

Applies to school districts, educational service districts, charter schools, state-tribal compact schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and the Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth and State School for the Blind