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Concerning open educational resources.
Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.
Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices.
Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.
Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices.
Enacting the student opportunity, assistance, and relief act.
Requiring a systemwide credit policy regarding international baccalaureate exams. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring a systemwide credit policy regarding international baccalaureate and Cambridge international exams. )
Providing higher education support for gold star families.
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.
Concerning witnessing a student's college bound scholarship pledge when efforts to obtain a parent's or guardian's signature are unsuccessful.
Creating protections and fairness for students in the student loan disbursement process.
Concerning witnessing a student's college bound scholarship pledge when efforts to obtain a parent's or guardian's signature are unsuccessful.
Expanding college bound scholarship eligibility.
Adding a faculty member to the board of regents at the research universities.
Requiring acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests.
Concerning veterans' mental health services at institutions of higher education.
Concerning the regulation of programs of yoga practice or instruction as private vocational schools.
Aligning eligibility for the college bound scholarship program with the state need grant program.
Concerning Washington state's 529 college savings programs.
Creating the higher education infrastructure investment program.
Decoupling services and activities fees from tuition.
Freezing tuition at institutions of higher education.
Supporting student success at community and technical colleges by increasing full-time faculty.
Approving the 2016 state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Requiring establishment of a systemwide credit policy regarding AP exams. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring establishment of an evidence-based credit policy regarding AP exams. )
Providing associate degree education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.
Concerning technical college diploma programs.
Transitioning The Evergreen State College to a private four-year institution of higher education.
Creating a leasehold excise tax exemption for certain leasehold interests in facilities owned or used by schools, colleges, or universities.
Establishing a student loan bill of rights.
Concerning Washington higher education tuition payment and college savings programs.
Approving the 2016 state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Requiring establishment of a systemwide credit policy regarding AP exams. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Requiring establishment of an evidence-based credit policy regarding AP exams. )
Creating a leasehold excise tax exemption for certain leasehold interests in facilities owned or used by schools, colleges, or universities.
Supporting student success at community and technical colleges by increasing full-time faculty.
Establishing a student loan bill of rights.
Concerning technical college diploma programs.
Creating an academic bill of rights.
Concerning financial aid at institutions of higher education.
Funding the state need grant by repealing tax preferences.
Creating a leasehold excise tax exemption for certain leasehold interests in facilities owned or used by schools, colleges, or universities.
Establishing the Washington promise program.
Concerning college and university presidents.
Expanding state need grant eligibility.
Making the customized training program permanent.
Exempting property owned or used by community and technical colleges from property tax.
Concerning the opportunity scholarship program.
Establishing a student loan bill of rights.
Requiring that student loan information be provided to students.
Creating the skilled worker outreach, recruitment, and key training program.
Reauthorizing the work group concerned with removing obstacles for higher education students with disabilities.
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with the federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
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.
Requiring establishment of a systemwide credit policy regarding AP exams. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Requiring establishment of a coordinated, evidence-based credit policy regarding AP exams. )
Requiring live financial literacy seminars for students at institutions of higher education.
Providing information to students about education loans.
Concerning eligibility for veteran or national guard tuition waivers.
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Approving the 2016 state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.
Providing students at community and technical colleges with the costs of required course materials.
Concerning technical college diploma programs.
Concerning higher education records.
Eliminating the term "branch" as an identifying factor for extensions of the public institutions of higher education.
Making the customized training program permanent.
Updating workforce investment act references and making no substantive changes.
Creating the Washington college savings program.
Concerning student services for students with disabilities.
Adopting a higher education reverse transfer agreement plan.
Concerning the University of Washington's alternative process for awarding contracts.
Updating workforce investment act references and making no substantive changes.
Creating a pilot program for community and technical colleges to offer bachelor degrees.
Concerning student services for students with disabilities.
Regulating the institutions of higher education, including for-profit institutions and private vocational schools, to protect students from unfair business practices.
Improving student success at community and technical colleges by considering benefits of full-time faculty and staff.
Including highway workers employed on a transportation project by a contractor in the tuition and fee exemption for children and surviving spouses of highway workers.
Eliminating the parent or guardian approval requirement for the college bound scholarship pledge.
Creating a work group on accelerated baccalaureate degree programs.
Requiring a study concerning a state loan program for graduate students.
Providing employers with a business and occupation tax credit for providing employees with student loan repayment assistance.
Establishing a student loan bill of rights.
Changing provisions relating to services and activities fees at institutions of higher education.
Requiring acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests.
Requiring that a certain percentage of state need grant recipients be pursuing degrees in STEM subjects.
Establishing the Washington promise program, which provides for universal and affordable access to community and technical colleges for all Washingtonians.
Updating workforce investment act references and making no substantive changes.
Requiring each institution of higher education to adopt a plan to increase voter registration and voting in elections.
Creating administrative efficiencies for institutions of higher education.
Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety.
Creating the clean energy education program.
Including certain residents who do not have a high school diploma or credential and the number of students expected to enroll in basic education for adults courses at community and technical colleges in caseload forecast council forecasting.
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.
Naming a medical school at Washington State University after Elson S. Floyd.
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
Aligning eligibility for the college bound scholarship program with the state need grant program.
Freezing resident undergraduate tuition at the four-year institutions of higher education.
Changing enrollment forecasts and budgeting for institutions of higher education.
Creating a pilot project on performance-based scholarships in the state need grant program.
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
Increasing transparency in community and technical colleges by requiring certain budget detail to be available online.
Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.
Concerning affordable tuition planning.
Establishing an online alternative credit model at Central Washington University.
Eliminating the parent or guardian approval requirement for the college bound scholarship pledge.
Modifying provisions related to tuition setting authority at public institutions of higher education.
Decodifying, expiring, and making nonsubstantive changes to community and technical college provisions.
Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
Concerning the acceptance of additional high school equivalency tests.
Establishing the GET ready for college program.
Creating a peer mentoring program.
Requiring the student achievement council to develop a grant program to encourage training for students studying in the medical field to work with individuals with disabilities.
Authorizing waivers of building fees and services and activities fees for certain military service members.
Concerning basic education for adults at community and technical colleges.
Concerning tuition waivers for state and educational employees.
Concerning veteran survivor tuition waiver eligibility.
Requiring a minimum grade point average or equivalent to renew a state need grant.
Modifying provisions related to tuition setting authority at public institutions of higher education.
Concerning higher education programs at Washington State University and the University of Washington.
Requiring live financial literacy seminars for students at institutions of higher education.
Creating the nurse educator pay it forward program.
Creating the wildlife college student loan program.
Making ample provisions to support higher education.
Concerning the display of campus information on the statewide public four-year dashboard.
Concerning a study of higher education cost drivers.
Reducing tuition.
Modifying the definition of resident student to comply with federal requirements established by the veterans access, choice, and accountability act of 2014.
Concerning recommendations of the college bound scholarship program work group.
Creating a task force on campus sexual violence prevention.
Including Everett Community College as an aerospace training or educational program.
Creating the certified public accounting scholarship program.
Disseminating financial aid information.
Authorizing waivers of building fees and services and activities fees for certain military service members.
Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
Creating procedures to address campus sexual violence.
Concerning precollege placement measures.
Creating a task force on mental health and suicide prevention in higher education.
Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
Decodifying, expiring, and making nonsubstantive changes to community and technical college provisions.
Requiring institutions of higher education to make an early registration process available to spouses and domestic partners of active members of the military.
Concerning higher education programs at Washington State University and the University of Washington.
Concerning statewide educational attainment goals.
Changing provisions relating to the opportunity scholarship.
Creating a work group to make recommendations for the continued viability of the college bound scholarship program.
Providing for awarding academic credit for military training.
Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.
Creating efficiencies for institutions of higher education.
Permitting community colleges that confer applied baccalaureate degrees to confer honorary bachelor of applied science degrees.
Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education.
Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education.
Requiring institutions of higher education to provide certain financial aid information to admitted and prospective students.
Approving specific statewide educational attainment goals.
Creating an informational program to increase applications from high-achieving low-income students to selective institutions of higher education.
Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.
Requiring creation of a higher education transparency web site.
Requiring a review of institution of higher education policies related to dual credit coursework.
Decodifying, expiring, and making technical clarifications to higher education provisions.
Increasing transparency in higher education by requiring certain departmental budget detail to be available online.
Providing for awarding academic credit for military training.
Increasing membership on the opportunity scholarship board.
Evaluating compliance and performance of institutions of higher education participating in financial aid programs.
Changing provisions relating to the opportunity scholarship.
Changing requirements for membership on community and technical college boards of trustees.
Creating efficiencies for institutions of higher education.
Limiting differential tuition.
Adding eligibility criteria for higher education financial aid.
Providing for awarding academic credit for military training.
Adding eligibility criteria for higher education financial aid.
Evaluating compliance and performance of institutions of higher education participating in financial aid programs.
Changing requirements for membership on community and technical college boards of trustees.
Increasing membership on the opportunity scholarship board.
Limiting differential tuition.
Providing for nonconference basketball competitions between the Gonzaga University Bulldogs and the University of Washington Huskies.
Providing parity of consumer protection procedures for all students attending licensed private vocational schools.
Approving the workforce training and education coordinating board's high skills high wages plan.
Establishing an incentive-based methodology of distributing state appropriations to public four-year institutions of higher education.
Adding the chair of the student achievement council to the Washington higher education facilities authority.
Concerning the display of campus information on the statewide public four-year dashboard.
Concerning precollege placement measures.
Providing parity of consumer protection procedures for all students attending licensed private vocational schools.
Concerning self-supporting, fee-based programs at four-year institutions of higher education.
Establishing a priority for awarding state need grants to legally present resident students.
Creating a tuition and fees exemption for children and surviving spouses of certain highway workers.
Establishing a cap for resident undergraduate tuition rates.
Regarding higher education governance.
Authorizing student advisory committees at institutions of higher education.
Decreasing resident undergraduate tuition rates by three percent for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium and limiting future growth of resident undergraduate tuition rates to inflation.
Providing for a performance and enrollment-based methodology of distributing state appropriations to public institutions of higher education.
Requiring an audit of the state universities.
Concerning the workforce training and education coordinating board's high skills high wages plan.
Authorizing educational specialist degrees at Central Washington University and Western Washington University.
Authorizing applied doctorate level degrees in audiology at Western Washington University.
Concerning differential tuition.
Requiring an audit of the state universities.
Concerning higher education operating efficiencies.
Funding higher education child care grants.
Amending the Constitution to make higher education the state's second highest priority.
Making ample provisions to support higher education.
Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at community and technical colleges.
Extending state need grant eligibility under certain circumstances.
Expanding existing higher education financial aid programs to state residents.
Concerning high school equivalency certificates.
Limiting differential tuition.
Changing requirements for membership on community and technical college boards of trustees.
Requiring an online higher education transfer and student advising system.
Modifying job skills program provisions.
Establishing the educational achievement and tuition reduction incentive program.
Changing enrollment forecasts and budgeting for institutions of higher education.
Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at four-year institutions of higher education.
Regarding the assignment of intellectual property rights at institutions of higher education.
Removing the one-year waiting period for veterans or active members of the military for purposes of eligibility for resident tuition.
Providing tax incentives for donations of modern laboratory equipment to higher education institutions and vocational skills centers.
Preventing illegal aliens from qualifying as resident students for purposes of in-state tuition and financial aid.
Creating a peer mentoring program to encourage elementary school students to attend college.
Changing state need grant eligibility provisions.
Establishing the GET ready for college program.
Concerning the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program.
Authorizing educational specialist degrees at Central Washington University and Western Washington University.
Authorizing applied doctorate level degrees in audiology at Western Washington University.
Concerning the rights of higher education students involved in military service.
Allowing nonprofit institutions recognized by the state of Washington to be eligible to participate in the state need grant program.
Improving access to higher education for students with disabilities.
Authorizing recognition of institutions of postsecondary study in order to retain federal financial aid eligibility.
Concerning higher education operating efficiencies.
Increasing the number of public members on the Washington higher education facilities authority. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Increasing the number of members on the Washington higher education facilities authority. )
Modifying job skills program provisions.
Requiring institutions of higher education that offer an early course registration period to provide early registration for eligible veterans and national guard members.
Concerning high school equivalency certificates.
Aligning high-demand secondary STEM or career and technical education programs with applied baccalaureate programs.
Encouraging community colleges to use, and inform students of the use of, multiple measures to determine the need for precollege courses.
Creating the office of the student achievement council.
Allowing advance payments for equipment maintenance services for institutions of higher education.
Concerning the higher education coordinating board's responsibilities with regard to health sciences and services authorities.
Regarding the Olympic natural resources center.
Creating the joint center for aerospace technology innovation.
Requiring state research universities to adopt policies governing investment of university funds, consistent with the uniform prudent management of institutional funds act, and requiring annual investment performance reports.
Allowing appointment of student members on the boards of trustees of community colleges.
Amending the Constitution to provide clear authority to state research universities to invest funds as authorized by law, including investment in stocks or bonds issued by any company. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Amending the Constitution to provide clear authority to state research universities to invest funds as authorized by law. )
Requiring the office of student financial assistance to provide a financial aid counseling curriculum for institutions of higher education.
Creating innovate Washington. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Creating innovate Washington. )
Regarding the Washington advanced college tuition payment (GET) program.
Concerning the University Center of North Puget Sound.
Requiring the development of accelerated baccalaureate programs at state colleges and universities.
Requiring the college board to establish minimum standards for common student identifiers.
Concerning the Lake Washington Institute of Technology.
Promoting efficiencies including institutional coordination and partnerships in the community and technical college system.
Expanding the higher education system upon proven demand.
Regarding developing a curriculum for a career track for home care aides.
Requiring the development of three-year baccalaureate programs.
Regarding tuition-setting authority at institutions of higher education.
Requiring policies for academic recognition of certain life and learning experiences.
Requiring the higher education coordinating board to develop a grant program to encourage training for students studying in the medical field to work with individuals with disabilities.
Establishing a lifelong learning account steering committee.
Clarifying terms for workforce and economic development.
Establishing the primary care physician conditional tuition waiver program.
Allowing public technical colleges to offer associate transfer degrees.
Establishing a lifelong learning account steering committee.
Changing the timeline for the state comprehensive plan for workforce training and education.
Authorizing honorary degrees for students who were ordered into internment camps.
Making certain current higher education tuition-setting practices permanent.
Regarding the job skills program.
Creating a global Asia institute within the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Establishing a University of Washington center for human rights.
Authorizing the regional universities to confer honorary doctorate degrees.
Regarding insurance for higher education students participating in study or research abroad.
Including stepchildren in tuition waivers for children of veterans and national guard members.
Connecting business expansion and recruitment to customized training.
Eliminating the matching fund requirement for the American Indian endowed scholarship program.
Providing for the 2008-2018 state comprehensive plan for workforce training.
Eliminating the exclusive authority of the University of Washington and Washington State University to offer certain engineering courses.
Changing work-study provisions.
Convening a work group to develop a single, coordinated student access portal for college information.