Community and Technical Colleges: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 71 bills from the 2025-26 session under Community and Technical Colleges. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1035 · Faculty, requiring resources and model policy to address secondary traumatic stress
- HB 1036 · Trustees, modifying board composition
- HB 1143 · College grant program, modifying per non-discrimination affidavit
- HB 1161 · Veteran employability training and career advancement for reentry program, establishing for justice involved veterans
- HB 1171 · Child abuse, mandatory reporting exemption for information gained via legal representation
- HB 1273 · Career and technical education (CTE), continuing dual credit pilot program
- HB 1278 · Trustees, student representation on board
- HB 1279 · Students, consumer protections
- 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 1486 · State board, adding a student member
- 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 1556 · Tuition waiver, expanding age eligibility
- HB 1565 · Dual enrollment scholarship program, expanding and making pilot program permanent
- HB 1568 · Washington college grant, modifying eligibility and adding bridge grants
- HB 1572 · Accreditation, expanding standards
- HB 1587 · Local government partner promise scholarship programs, authorizing
- HB 1657 · Washington 13 free guarantee, establishing to provide up to 45 credits of tuition-free technical college
- 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 1838 · Washington college grants, extending to students enrolled in certificate programs for high-demand fields
- HB 1895 · Educational assistance, B & O tax credit for employers
- HB 2054 · Employees, limiting number to certain ratio of students
- HB 2063 · Tuition waiver, modifying age eligibility
- HB 2065 · Employees, reducing administrative staff at public institutions
- HB 2324 · Tuition waivers for children of disabled veterans
- HB 2438 · Supporting our early education degree seekers scholarship established
- HB 2443 · Armed forces reserve postsecondary education grant program established
- HB 2458 · Washington college grant program eligibility expanded
- HB 2474 · Student protections against program closure
- HB 2535 · Medication abortion provision by student health centers, new chapter
- HB 2538 · Adjunct faculty mandated compensation levels
- 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 2727 · Educational transit access grant program established to fund pilot projects
- SB 5012 · Athletics, gender identity and organization of
- SB 5087 · Pre-law associate's degree, requiring program at certain colleges
- SB 5110 · Tuition, permitting waiver for tribal elders
- SB 5164 · College board, requiring to organize program for outreach and enrollment specialists
- SB 5205 · College grant program, modifying per non-discrimination affidavit
- SB 5275 · Passport to careers program, modifying funding
- 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 5397 · Faculty, limiting instruction by those without tenure track status
- SB 5402 · Washington college grant, modifying eligibility and adding bridge grants
- SB 5442 · College promise pilot program, establishing for 10-county region
- SB 5523 · Trustees, student representation on board
- SB 5542 · Tuition waiver, expanding age eligibility
- 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 5658 · College grant program, bridge grants for certain recipients
- SB 5663 · Online course offerings, allowing distribution of information outside districts
- SB 5724 · Career and technical education dual credit courses, encouraging and improving access
- SB 5725 · Affordable housing, use of college lands
- SB 5785 · Tuition, restricting raising of operating fees
- SB 5789 · Washington college grant program, restricting maximum award and timeframe
- SB 5790 · Employees, cost-of-living salary increases
- SB 5826 · Medication abortion provision by student health centers, new chapter
- SB 5828 · Maximum Washington college grant, increasing
- 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 6082 · Systemic performance audit of fraud in the state financial aid programs
- SB 6217 · Washington college grant program eligibility expanded
- SB 6325 · State funding/tuition ratio of funding certain costs modified
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.