Colleges and Universities: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 85 measures from the 2025-26 session under Colleges and Universities. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1035 · Regional universities, requiring resources to address secondary traumatic stress
- HB 1036 · Regional universities, adding labor members to boards of trustees
- HB 1143 · College grant program, modifying per non-discrimination affidavit
- HB 1171 · Child abuse, mandatory reporting exemption for information gained via legal representation
- HB 1238 · UW, establishing advisory council on rare diseases within school of medicine
- HB 1279 · Students, consumer protections
- HB 1298 · Students, authorizing institutions to make insurance available to student athletes
- HB 1316 · Students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program, expanding
- HB 1337 · Presidents, requiring public notice of hiring candidates
- HB 1343 · Student demonstrations, circumstances for loss of aid
- HB 1447 · Financial aid, state, tracking requirements
- HB 1485 · Services and activities fees, raising limit on increases
- HB 1492 · Students with dependents, offering early registration
- HB 1495 · College promise pilot program, establishing for 10-county region
- HB 1554 · Washington college bound scholarship program, eligibility to include high school equivalency certificates
- HB 1557 · Washington guaranteed admissions program, establishing at public universities, state college, and tribal institutions
- HB 1565 · Dual enrollment scholarship program, expanding and making pilot program permanent
- HB 1568 · Washington college grant, modifying eligibility and adding bridge grants
- HB 1570 · Employees, collective bargaining for students enrolled at certain state institutions
- HB 1572 · Accreditation, expanding standards
- HB 1617 · UW, national primate research center, requiring certain disclosures
- HB 1677 · Medication abortion, requiring student health centers at public institutions to provide access
- HB 1751 · Course materials, sales/use tax exemption
- HB 1762 · Public institutions, prohibiting requirement to live on campus or in residence halls
- HB 1809 · UW, behavioral health crisis outreach response and education center to develop EMS training
- HB 1811 · UW, school of social work to collaborate on co-response peer support
- HB 1851 · Demonstrations, prohibiting use of state money to repair damage
- HB 1873 · Working connections child care, access for students in graduate and professional programs
- HB 1895 · Educational assistance, B & O tax credit for employers
- HB 1948 · UW, requiring department of environmental and occupational health sciences assessments for port district actions
- HB 2054 · Employees, limiting number to certain ratio of students
- HB 2065 · Employees, reducing administrative staff at public institutions
- HB 2070 · Western Washington University, requiring state funding parity
- HB 2098 · Washington college grant and tuition increase limits
- HB 2148 · Pay it forward program created to provide greater financial access for graduate students
- HB 2324 · Tuition waivers for children of disabled veterans
- HB 2443 · Armed forces reserve postsecondary education grant program established
- HB 2474 · Student protections against program closure
- HB 2525 · WSU, establishing the heritage orchard program
- HB 2535 · Medication abortion provision by student health centers, new chapter
- HB 2565 · UW, placement of investments with state investment board
- HB 2567 · Maximum Washington college grant, increasing
- HB 2586 · Passport to careers program eligibility for Washington college grant program
- HB 2589 · Prohibitions and restrictions on encampments
- HB 2617 · State funding/tuition ratio of funding certain costs modified
- HB 2671 · Financial aid and affiliates of institutions operating out of state
- SB 5012 · Athletics, gender identity and organization of
- SB 5064 · UW, establishing advisory council on rare diseases within school of medicine
- SB 5115 · Dream act service incentive grant program, establishing for community or volunteer service
- SB 5119 · Employees, collective bargaining for students enrolled at certain state institutions
- SB 5158 · Students, authorizing institutions to make insurance available to student athletes
- SB 5204 · UW, requiring study of ibogaine-assisted therapy as treatment for opioid use disorder
- SB 5205 · College grant program, modifying per non-discrimination affidavit
- SB 5275 · Passport to careers program, modifying funding
- SB 5308 · Washington guaranteed admissions program, establishing at public universities, state college, and tribal institutions
- SB 5321 · Medication abortion, requiring student health centers at public institutions to provide access
- SB 5355 · Sexual assault, entitling survivors to various services as well as investigations and trauma-informed care
- SB 5402 · Washington college grant, modifying eligibility and adding bridge grants
- SB 5424 · Evergreen State College, eliminating and creating UW health sciences campus
- SB 5442 · College promise pilot program, establishing for 10-county region
- SB 5543 · Washington college bound scholarship program, eligibility to include high school equivalency certificates
- SB 5562 · Approved apprenticeship programs, requirements
- SB 5607 · Free speech fundamentals workshop, student requirement
- SB 5608 · Freedom of expression, requiring adoption of Chicago principles
- SB 5618 · Admissions, requiring publication of criteria
- SB 5619 · Public institutions, requiring minimum percentage of resident students
- SB 5639 · Tuition and fees, waivers for student with homicide victim parent
- SB 5652 · UW, requiring department of environmental and occupational health sciences assessments for aviation activity
- SB 5658 · College grant program, bridge grants for certain recipients
- SB 5785 · Tuition, restricting raising of operating fees
- SB 5789 · Washington college grant program, restricting maximum award and timeframe
- SB 5826 · Medication abortion provision by student health centers, new chapter
- SB 5828 · Maximum Washington college grant, increasing
- SB 5909 · Low-enrollment programs reviewed and potentially discontinued
- SB 5954 · Tuition and fees waiver eligibility for veteran surviving child or spouse
- SB 5963 · Passport to careers program eligibility for Washington college grant program
- SB 5978 · Washington guaranteed admissions program, establishing at public universities and state college
- SB 6082 · Systemic performance audit of fraud in the state financial aid programs
- SB 6090 · WSU, establishing the heritage orchard program
- SB 6209 · Washington college grants and gainful employment standards
- SB 6235 · Athletic agreements restricted with private equity and sovereign wealth funds
- SB 6251 · UW and WSU schools of medicine restricted in use of grades
- SB 6259 · Students causing monetary damage to institutions ineligible for and must repay aid
- SB 6325 · State funding/tuition ratio of funding certain costs modified
- SR 8636 · WSU, college of medicine
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.