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First, thank you to the 20 folks who have registered for our spring meeting at Skagit. There is sure to be plenty of great conversation, food, cultural celebrations, and fingers crossed for sun. <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background: var(--surfacePrimaryElevated,#fff); color: var(--textPrimary); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">If
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Next, if you did not know, today is an important day in the legislature. <span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">
The legislature has until <b>5 p.m. today</b> to vote bills out of the opposite chambers from where they originated. After the cutoff date, lawmakers will then need to review changes made by the other chamber on bills that are returned. If any amendments from
the opposite chamber were added, legislators in the chamber where bills were initially introduced must go back and
<b><u>agree</u></b> to those changes. This is where the rubber meets the road, hold on!
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Below includes where your friendly SBCTC advocates in Student Services are watching with eagle eyes.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0">IMPORTANT BUDGET BILLS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1140&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">SB
1140</a> – </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:black;background:white">Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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operating budget appropriations for the 2021-23 biennium.</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5187&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">ESSB
5187</a> - </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:black;background:white">Making 2023-2025 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:windowtext">Makes biennial operating budget appropriations for the 2023-25 biennium and supplemental
operating budget appropriations for the 2021-23 biennium.</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5200&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">ESSB
5200</a>/HB 1147 - </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-latin;color:black;background:white">Concerning the capital budget.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0">STUDENT SERVICE BILLS – Updated 4/22/23 to reflect legislation as currently written<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1559&Year=2023&Initiative=false" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="background:white">HB 1559</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> companion to SB 5566 -
<b>Establishing the student basic needs at public postsecondary institutions act.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Establishes benefits navigators at each institution of higher education, university campus, and the tribal college.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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Creates the Free and Reduced-Price Meals Pilot Program.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5079&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="background:white">SB 5079</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> -
<b>Concerning the date by which tuition operating fees are established.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext">Requires the Office of Financial Management to calculate, and transmit to institutions of higher education, the maximum annual increase in tuition operating fees for resident undergraduates
every year by October 1.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; line-height: 105%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#00B050;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">WIN: Signed by the Governor on 3/30/23, effective on 7/23/23<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1232&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="background:white">HB 1232</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> –
<b>Enhancing College Bound Scholarship Program</b> </span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eliminates the grade point average requirement for all students other than those seeking direct admission to a public or private four-year institution of higher education.
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Requires the Education Research and Data Center to annually send College Bound Scholarship data submitted by the institutions of higher education to the Washington Student Achievement Council.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5687&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">5687</a><span style="color:#00B050"> -
</span><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Creating postsecondary wrestling grant programs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Creates a postsecondary wrestling grant program.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<u><span style="color:#00B050">ES</span></u><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5702&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="color:#2E75B6;background:white">SB 5702</span></a> -<b><span style="color:black;background:white">Expanding
the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth pilot program.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="color:windowtext">Makes the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program permanent.
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<span style="color:windowtext">Allows community and technical colleges participating in the program to apply for grant funds for establishment of a subsidized housing or housing voucher program.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="color:windowtext">Adds the tribal college as eligible to participate in the program.
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">WIN: Passed – headed to Governor’s office for signing!
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<span style="color:#7030A0">2S</span><a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5593&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">SB 5593 -</a>
<b><span style="color:black;background:white">Improving equity in the transfer of student data between K-12 schools and institutions of higher education.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:windowtext">Requires institutions of higher education to enter into data-sharing agreements with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to facilitate the transfer of high school student directory information for purposes
of informing students about postsecondary educational opportunities. </span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; line-height: 105%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#00B050;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6">
<span style="color:windowtext">Requires school districts to annually transmit directory information for all enrolled high school students to the OSPI and directs the OSPI to make that information available to institutions of higher education.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="color:windowtext">Directs the OSPI to identify a process for making information about a student's enrollment in an institution of higher education available to the student's school district.
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<span style="color:windowtext">Requires private, four-year, not-for-profit institutions of higher education.</span><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:#0070C0;background:white">DUAL CREDIT BILLS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="color:#00B050">2</span><a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/5048%20SBR%20HEWD%20OC%2023.pdf?q=20230210095637" data-auth="NotApplicable">SSB 5048</a> -
<b><span style="color:black;position:relative;top:1.5pt;mso-text-raise:-1.5pt">Eliminating college in the high school fees.</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<a name="_Hlk126915375">Requires institutions of higher education to provide enrollment and registration in College in the High School (CHS) courses at no cost to students in grades 9 through 12 at public high schools.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk126915375">Requires the Legislature to appropriate funds to fund CHS courses, at inflation-adjusted rates.
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk126915375">Directs high schools that provide CHS courses to include information in the course catalog, and to notify parents and guardians by email and in beginning of the year packets, that there is no fee for students to enroll
in CHS courses. Requires the parental and guardian notifications to also explain CHS credit transfer procedures.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1316&Year=2023&Initiative=false" data-auth="NotApplicable">SHB 1316</a> -
<b><span style="color:black;background:white">Expanding access to dual credit programs.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Requires public schools to allow eligible students to participate in Running Start.
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Allows Running Start students to be funded up to a combined maximum enrollment of 1.4 FTE.
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Directs the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt rules to fund student enrollment in running start courses during the summer academic term up to a maximum of ten college credits per student per summer academic term.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1146&Initiative=false&Year=2023" data-auth="NotApplicable">HB 1146</a> -
<b><span style="color:black;background:white">Notifying high school students and their families about available dual credit programs and any available financial assistance.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Requires school districts to provide information about dual credit programs and any financial assistance available to reduce dual credit and exam costs for students and their families.<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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