WSCA Legislative Update

The deadline for bills to cross over to the opposite chamber passed on Wednesday at 5 p.m. last week, and a couple of high-profile legislative issues closed out floor action in both the House and Senate. The Senate debated and finally passed legislation proposing to ban the death penalty in Washington state before taking up a bill (SB 6362) that would fully fund teacher salaries beginning in the 2018-19 school year. The House passed debated and passed legislation on greenhouse gas emissions on a party-line vote, and members in both chambers debated these bills well past the 5:00 deadline.

Next week, legislative leaders are expected to release a supplemental budget and hearings are scheduled in the House and Senate fiscal committees Tuesday. The first state revenue forecast for 2018 predicted state revenue collections will be $1.3 billion higher than previously forecast for the next 2 budget cycles. In addition, Washington has experienced more than $1 billion in added revenue growth since 2017. All this improves the state’s financial outlook and may cool the enthusiasm for certain tax increases being contemplated by the Legislature (capital gains tax, carbon tax). WSCA has been working to ensure the budgets proposed next week include the $17 million in additional funding for middle school counselors that was proposed by Superintendent Chris Reykdal and included in the Governor’s proposed budget.

2SHB 1377, sponsored by school counselor - Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self, is scheduled for a public hearing on Monday in the Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee. The bill specifies the roles of school counselors, social workers and psychologists, and requires certain districts to provide collaboration time to focus on recognizing signs of distress in students. If the legislation is signed into law, the PESB will convene a task force on the need for school counselors, psychologists and social workers. WSCA testified in support of this bill in the House.

WSCA has supported several bills related to school safety this session and two of them are scheduled for hearings next week: SB 6410 and SB 6141.

Next week is the final week for policy committees to meet during the 2018 session, and the cutoff for bills to pass from committee is Friday, February 23rd. Fiscal committees will likely meet during the weekend to keep moving bills to the floor in a serious effort to conclude their work in the less-than-three-weeks left before the end of the 60-day session.

Upcoming Events

Early Learning & K-12 Education (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/19 @ 1:30pm

 2SHB 1377 - Public Hearing - Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.  ESHB 1618 - Exec Session - Concerning family and community engagement coordinators.  SHB 2685 - Exec Session - Promoting preapprenticeship opportunities for high school students.

Education (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/19 @ 1:30pm

 2SSB 6410 - Public Hearing - Concerning school safety.

February 16, 2018 Page 1 of 13 Early Learning & Human Services (House) - HHR C, JLOB - 2/20 @ 8:00am

 SSB 6452 - Public Hearing - Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.

Higher Education & Workforce Development (Senate) - SHR 2, - 2/20 @ 8:00am

 2SHB 1293 - Public Hearing - Eliminating the parent or guardian approval requirement for the college bound scholarship pledge.

Education (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/20 @ 1:30pm

 SSB 6141 - Public Hearing - Strengthening school district plans for recognition, screening, and response to emotional or behavioral distress in students.

Human Services & Corrections (Senate) - SHR 2, - 2/20 @ 1:30pm

 E2SHB 2779 - Public Hearing - Improving access to mental health services for children and youth.

Appropriations (House) - HHR A, JLOB - 2/20 @ 3:30pm

 HB 2299 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental operating appropriations.

Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4, - 2/20 @ 3:30pm

 SB 6032 - Public Hearing - Making supplemental operating appropriations. (Hearing is on the Proposed Substitute.)

Early Learning & Human Services (House) - HHR C, JLOB - 2/21 @ 1:30pm

 SSB 6452 - Exec Session - Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.

Early Learning & K-12 Education (Senate) - SHR 1, - 2/22 @ 1:30pm

 E2SHB 1600 - Public Hearing - Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students.  SHB 2686 - Public Hearing - Concerning high school and beyond plans.  ESHB 2802 - Public Hearing - Concerning expanded learning opportunities.  SHB 2558 - Public Hearing - Preventing public identification or stigmatization of public school students.

Ways & Means (Senate) - SHR 4, - 2/22 @ 3:30pm

 EHB 2008 - Public Hearing - Addressing the budgeting process for core state services for children.

February 16, 2018 Page 2 of 13 Bill Details Status Sponsor

Career & technical education H Approps Tarleton Concerning career and technical education funding. HB 1282 (Dead) Ties the career and technical funding for materials, supplies, and operating costs to the general education (SB 5183) funding for materials, supplies, and operating costs by setting a rate for career and technical education that is equal to a specified multiplier of the general education funding.

College bound sch./approval S Higher Ed & Wor Ortiz-Self Eliminating the parent or guardian approval requirement for the college bound scholarship pledge. 2SHB 1293 Addresses unsuccessful efforts to obtain a parent's or guardian's signature with regard to the witnessing of a student's college bound scholarship pledge.

Ed. staff assocs/service yrs H Approps Dolan Concerning the calculation of years of service for educational staff associate positions for salary allocation HB 1374 purposes. (Dead) (SB 5283) Addresses educational staff associate positions for salary allocation purposes with regard to the calculation of years of service in a nonschool position.

2SHB Student mental health S EL/K-12 Ortiz-Self 1377 Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.

Addresses the role of a school counselor, a school social worker, and a school psychologist in promoting student achievement and creating a safe learning environment. Requires first-class school districts to provide at least six hours of professional collaboration per year for school counselors, social workers, and psychologists that focuses on recognizing signs of emotional or behavioral distress in students. Creates the professional collaboration lighthouse grant program to assist school districts with early adoption and implementation of mental health professional collaboration time. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to designate two school districts as lighthouse school districts to serve as resources and examples of best practices in designing and operating a professional collaboration program for school counselors,

February 16, 2018 Page 3 of 13 social workers, and psychologists, and local licensed mental health service providers. Requires the professional educator standards board to convene a task force on school counselors, psychologists, and social workers to review certain issues. Provides a July 1, 2019, expiration date of the task force.

Student meals & nutrition S Passed 3rd Stonier Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs (Breakfast After the Bell). Establishes the Washington kids ready to learn act of 2017. Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to consume the food. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to administer one-time start-up allocation grants to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program. Creates the breakfast after the bell lighthouse project to promote best practices for breakfast after the bell programs. Requires school districts 2ESHB with school lunch programs to begin to eliminate lunch copays for students in prekindergarten through 1508 twelfth grade who qualify for reduced-price lunches. Authorizes school districts and the office of the superintendent of public instruction to coordinate with the department of agriculture to promote and facilitate farm-to-school programs and small and direct marketing farm programs within school districts. Authorizes the office of the superintendent of public instruction to award grants to school districts to collaborate with community-based organizations, food banks, and farms or gardens for reducing high school dropout occurrences through farm engagement projects. Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

Credits for HS graduation H Approps Stonier HB 1509 Concerning credit requirements for high school graduation. (Dead) Provides an opportunity for students to complete all credits required for high school graduation.

SHB 1518 Social emotional learning H Approps Senn (Dead) Improving student achievement by promoting social emotional learning throughout the calendar year.

Establishes the summer step up act. Requires the department of early learning to contract for up to an additional six hundred slots in summer early childhood education and assistance programs at K-12 school building sites giving priority to programs operated in K-12 school buildings that: (1) Plan to include four- year old and five-year old children; (2) Are in low-income areas or areas underserved by the programs; and (3) Plan to fund meal programs during the summer using reimbursements from the United States department of agriculture or other nonstate sources. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to convene a work group to build upon the social emotional learning work group established in 2016. Creates

February 16, 2018 Page 4 of 13 the summer step-up grant program to increase the number of programs that combine academics and social emotional learning.

Student nutrition/grants H Rules 3C Riccelli Creating a competitive equipment assistance grant program to enhance student nutrition in public schools. EHB 1551 (Dead) HB 1551 - DIGEST Establishes the apple a day act of 2017. Creates a competitive equipment assistance grant (SB 5708) program, to be known as the apple a day program, to enhance overall student nutrition in public schools. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a competitive process to prioritize applications for state assistance. Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

Career and college readiness S EL/K-12 Santos Increasing the career and college readiness of public school students.

HB 1600-S2 - DIGEST Creates the work-integrated learning initiative to promote work-integrated learning experiences for students. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Contract with E2SHB a statewide nonprofit organization to establish a matching grant program to fund projects implemented by 1600 local applicant schools; and (2) In consultation with the employment security department and the workforce training and education coordinating board, convene a work-integrated learning advisory committee to provide advice to the legislature and the education and workforce sectors on creating opportunities for students. Requires the center for the improvement of student learning and the state institute for public policy to jointly review and analyze the reports and data submitted in accordance with this act to evaluate the work-integrated learning project programs.

Engagement coordinators S EL/K-12 Ortiz-Self Concerning family and community engagement coordinators.

HB 1618-S - DIGEST Changes the following terms to family and community engagement coordinator: Family ESHB engagement coordinator, parent and family engagement coordinator, and parent involvement coordinator. 1618 Requires a family and community engagement coordinator, within a school building or school district, to: (1) Identify and bridge barriers to students' and families' access to needed services; (2) Consult with an advisory group of students' families who reflect the demographic diversity within the school building or school district; and (3) Partner with community-based organizations to increase resources for family and community engagement.

February 16, 2018 Page 5 of 13 Social-emotional learning H Approps Senn Providing funding allocations to promote children's health and social-emotional learning. HB 1621 (Dead) Promotes children's health and social-emotional learning by providing funding to school districts to employ additional staff who are dedicated to supporting children's health and social-emotional learning.

Mental health professionals H Judiciary Cody Concerning professionals qualified to examine individuals in the mental health and substance use disorder ESHB treatment systems. 1753 (Dead) Corrects a technical oversight by recognizing a designated chemical dependency specialist as one of the (SSB qualified examining professionals authorized to sign an initial fourteen-day substance use disorder detention 5580) petition during the interim period between June 28, 2016, and April 1, 2018. Allows a physician assistant working with a supervising psychiatrist to qualify as a designated crisis responder.

Basic education program H Approps Sullivan Fulfilling the state's paramount duty for all children through equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions. Addresses equitable and responsible investments in the state's basic education program and reductions to local effort contributions to fulfill the state's paramount duty for all children. Requires the superintendent of ESHB public instruction to: (1) Convene a technical working group to provide recommendations for revising school 1843 district accounting practices for the purpose of improving fiscal transparency by establishing methods for (Dead) separate accounting of school district expenditures made to support the state's program of basic education (SB 5623) and those made as locally determined enrichments with local or other funding sources; and (2) Convene a work group to determine whether the funded enrollment percent for special education programs of twelve and seven-tenths should be adjusted. Establishes an accountability monitoring and reporting system as part of a continuing effort to make meaningful and substantial progress toward meeting long-term performance goals in K-12 education.

EHB 2008 State services for children S Ways & Means Kagi Addressing the budgeting process for core state services for children. Requires the state institute for public policy, in consultation with the department of social and health services, to develop a single validated tool to assess the care needs of foster children. Requires the department of social and health services, once the validated tool is available for use on a statewide basis, to: (1) Use the tool for assessing the care needs of foster children, including whether the department should

February 16, 2018 Page 6 of 13 provide foster children with behavioral rehabilitation services; and (2) Notify the caseload forecast council, the office of financial management, and the appropriate fiscal committees of the legislature when it begins statewide use of the validated tool. Requires foster care, adoption support and related services, and child protective services to: (1) Be included in the forecast of the caseload forecast council; and (2) Be forecasted and budgeted as maintenance level costs.

College and career readiness H Approps Pettigrew Increasing college and career readiness and graduation rates in public schools.

Creates the high school graduation and college and career readiness account. Requires the legislature, at each regular session in an odd-numbered year, to appropriate from the account amounts equaling not less than four hundred dollars per full-time equivalent student enrolled in a public middle school and high school HB 2075 per school year, for state support of the requirements of this act during the ensuing biennium. Requires the (Dead) amounts distributed to school districts to be used to establish or expand: (1) Career and technical education (SSB programs in middle schools, high schools, or skill centers; (2) College-level courses in high schools; (3) Drop- 5758) out prevention strategies in middle schools and high schools; and (4) Courses, counseling, and coaching in middle school and high school to provide early exposure for students to employment opportunities and requirements and options for postsecondary education. Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to review and report on the performance of school districts receiving certain funds under this act. Requires the state auditor to conduct financial, program, and performance audits of the uses and effectiveness of certain appropriated funds under this act.

Supp. operating budget H Approps Ormsby HB 2299 Making supplemental operating appropriations. (SB 6032) Makes supplemental operating appropriations.

HB 2496 Student distress response H Education Santos (Dead) Strengthening school district plans for recognition, screening, and response to emotional or behavioral (SSB distress in students. 6141) Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop and make available an online one- hour training module for school staff on recognition, screening, and response to emotional or behavioral distress in students. States that the online suicide prevention training module for school staff does not replace the training requirement for school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses to

February 16, 2018 Page 7 of 13 complete an approved three-hour suicide prevention training. Authorizes school staff to complete the three- hour suicide prevention training in lieu of the one-hour online suicide prevention training. Requires each educational service district to identify a regional mental health coordinator.

SHB 2543 Regional school safety cntrs H Approps Lovick (SB 6224) Establishing regional school safety centers in educational service districts.

Student stigmatization S EL/K-12 Kirby Preventing public identification or stigmatization of public school students.

Prohibits a school or school district from stigmatizing, or taking action that would likely stigmatize, a student based on attendance, academic performance, or behavior that is unsatisfactory. Requires school principals, SHB 2558 classroom teachers, and paraeducators to confer annually to develop or review policies and practices designed to improve school climate and create a safe, respectful learning environment. Requires the center for the improvement of student learning to convene a work group to make recommendations: (1) On school climate and safe, respectful learning environment training requirements for educators; (2) That emphasize that stigmatization is counterproductive to the state's goal of improving school climate and creating a safe, respectful learning environment. Provides an August 1, 2019, expiration date for the work group.

High sch. preapprenticeships S EL/K-12 Ortiz-Self SHB 2685 Promoting preapprenticeship opportunities for high school students.

High school and beyond plans S EL/K-12 Ortiz-Self SHB 2686 Concerning high school and beyond plans.

Student suspens. & expulsion H Education Ortiz-Self Concerning suspension and expulsion of students including kindergarten and early elementary school students. HB 2767 (Dead) Prohibits a school district from suspending or expelling a student who is enrolled in grades kindergarten through two, except for a violation of RCW 28A.600.420 (firearms on school premises, transportation, or facilities).

E2SHB Children mental health serv. S Human Svcs/Corr Senn 2779 Improving access to mental health services for children and youth. (SSB

February 16, 2018 Page 8 of 13 6485) Reestablishes the children's mental health work group to: (1) Identify barriers to and opportunities for accessing mental health services for children and families; and (2) Advise the legislature on statewide mental health services for this population. Provides a December 30, 2020, expiration date for the work group. Expands the duties and responsibilities of the following: (1) The state health care authority; (2) The department of social and health services; (3) Behavioral health organizations; (4) Regional service areas; (5) The department of children, youth, and families; and (6) The office of the superintendent of public instruction.

Expanded learning S EL/K-12 Kloba Concerning expanded learning opportunities.

ESHB Reconstitutes the expanded learning opportunities council as the expanded learning opportunities advisory 2802 council within the center for the improvement of student learning. Establishes new and/or modified governance provisions and duties for the advisory council. Eliminates the summer knowledge improvement pilot program.

SHB 2848 Truancy reduction processes H Rules R Orwall (Dead) Modifying school and court processes to promote attendance and reduce truancy.

Child sexual abuse investig. S Law & Justice Stonier SHB 2855 Concerning the sharing of information between participants in multidisciplinary coordination of child sexual abuse investigations.

Student suspens. & expulsion S 2nd Reading Billig Concerning suspension and expulsion of students including kindergarten and early elementary school students. SSB 5155 (Dead) Prohibits a school district from suspending or expelling a student who is enrolled in grades kindergarten through two, except for a violation of RCW 28A.600.420 (firearms on school premises, transportation, or facilities).

Teacher postretirement empl. H Approps Hunt SSB 5310 Concerning teachers' postretirement employment options.

SB 5527 Employee status enforcement S Labor & Commer Frockt (Dead) Simplifying and enforcing employee status under employment laws to ensure fairness to employers and

February 16, 2018 Page 9 of 13 (SHB employees and address the underground economy. 1300) Establishes the employee fair classification act to simplify and enforce employee status under employment laws to ensure fairness to employers and employees and address the underground economy.

Alt. student assessments S Rules 3 Conway Concerning alternative student assessments.

Allows a student to use an alternative assessment without taking the statewide student assessment at least SB 5639 once if the student: (1) Is enrolled in a school district with which a technical college has a signed interlocal (Dead) agreement on file with the superintendent of public instruction; (2) Was under twenty-one years of age at the beginning of the school year; (3) Is enrolled tuition-free; (4) Is enrolled in the school district for the purpose of earning a high school diploma or certificate; and (5) Has participated in instructional activity at the technical college during the current school year.

Career & technical education S Rules X Walsh Concerning career and technical education funding.

Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Create methodologies for implementing equivalency crediting on a broader scale across the state and facilitate its implementation; and (2) Establish SSB 5853 a competitive grant process for school districts to apply for grants for the purpose of purchasing career and (Dead) technical education equipment. Requires school districts to annually report certain information to the office of the superintendent of public instruction. Provides a list of the allowable uses of funding provided for career and technical education. Prohibits the maximum allowable indirect cost for school districts for career and technical education programs funded through state and federal funds from exceeding the limitations provided under federal law for federal career and technical education funding provided to districts, or five percent, whichever is lower.

ESB 6003 Student meals and nutrition H Education Wellman Concerning breakfast after the bell programs in certain public schools. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Promoting student health and readiness through meal and nutrition programs. ) Establishes the Washington kids ready to learn act. Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to consume the offered food. Requires those breakfasts served in the program to comply with federal meal patterns and nutrition standards for school breakfast programs under the federal healthy, hunger-free kids act of 2010. Requires the superintendent of

February 16, 2018 Page 10 of 13 public instruction to administer one-time start-up allocation grants to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program. Requires the joint legislative audit and review committee to conduct an analysis of the programs established in schools. Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the education data center to assist in providing data required to conduct the analysis. Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

Supp. operating budget S Ways & Means Rolfes SB 6032 Making supplemental operating appropriations. (HB 2299) Makes supplemental operating appropriations.

CTE course equivalency opts H EDDP Zeiger SSB 6133 Expanding statewide career and technical education course equivalency options. (HB 2494) Expands equivalency options for statewide career and technical education courses.

SSB 6141 Student distress response H Education McCoy (HB Strengthening school district plans for recognition, screening, and response to emotional or behavioral 2496) distress in students.

Homeless education equity S EL/K-12 Palumbo Creating a work group on educational equity for homeless children and youth.

Requires the department of children, youth, and families, the office of the superintendent of public SB 6148 instruction, the department of commerce office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs, and (Dead) the student achievement council to convene a work group with aligned nongovernmental agencies to collaborate on creating a plan for children and youth experiencing homelessness to achieve educational equity with their general student population peers and close the disparities between racial and ethnic groups. Expires December 31, 2018.

Online credit search tool S Rules 2 Ranker Informing high school students enrolled in dual credit courses about the online credit search tool. SB 6153 (Dead) Requires public high schools to inform students, enrolled in an advanced course that has an accompanying proficiency exam, about the credit search tool provided online by the student achievement council.

February 16, 2018 Page 11 of 13 High school success S EL/K-12 Mullet Facilitating high school success.

Requires, rather than encourages, each school district board of directors to adopt an academic acceleration policy for high school students. Requires each school district to enroll a student in a dual credit course or SB 6209 program if he or she wants to enroll in the course or program. Modifies the following areas of education (Dead) statutes to include all eligible high school students rather than only certain grades: (1) College in the high (HB school program and the running start program; (2) The requirement to provide general information to 2868) students about the running start program; and (3) Cooperative agreements between the state's school districts and the community colleges in Oregon and Idaho that allow a student to earn high school and college credit concurrently. Allows a school district to expend a portion of its learning assistance program allocation: (1) To develop a dropout early warning and intervention data system; and (2) On interventions for students identified as at risk of not graduating using the dropout early warning and intervention data system. Includes migrant students and English language learners in the definition of "vulnerable student."

SSB 6389 CTE/alt. learning exp. prgs. S Rules 2 Zeiger (Dead) (HB Regarding career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs. 2815)

Public schools S EL/K-12 Hunt Concerning public schools.

Recognizes, based on input from school districts, as they attempt to implement the major education funding SB 6397 reforms, changes to the initial policies will be needed to ensure the policies do not negatively impact school (Dead) districts or their employees and can be carried out as intended; and also recognizes that the state supreme (HB court ruled the state is not on track to meet the September 1, 2018, deadline to fully implement its program 2717) of basic education. Addresses public school provisions regarding compensation, levies, school district education funding, and collective bargaining. Provides that sections 401 through 403 of this act are null and void if appropriations are approved. Provides that section 502 of this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

SB 6398 College prep. programs S Higher Ed & Wo Palumbo (Dead) Concerning concurrent enrollment programs and college preparatory with examination programs. (SHB

February 16, 2018 Page 12 of 13 2656) Declares an intent to establish a clear student-focused policy for concurrent enrollment and college preparatory programs with examination in the state that recognizes, without preference for a single program, the selection of quality programs leading to a credential, certificate, or degree completion. Requires the state board for community and technical colleges and the four-year institutions of higher education to convene a work group to collaborate on the benefits, challenges, and best practices surrounding concurrent enrollment and college preparation programs in the state. Requires the education data center to convene a work group to provide consistent, easily understood concurrent enrollment programs and college preparatory programs by examination data among institutions of higher education and K-12 schools within the state.

School safety H Education Padden 2SSB Concerning school safety. 6410

Child mental health consult H Erly Lrn/H Svc Brown SSB 6452 Expanding the activities of the children's mental health services consultation program.

Education funding reform S EL/K-12 Conway Revising education funding reform provisions to enhance uniformity, flexibility, and special education funding. SB 6483 (Dead) Enhances uniformity, flexibility, and special education funding by modifying education funding reform provisions relating to: Regionalization; local levies and local effort assistance; special education funding; the delay of K-3 compliance; and the learning assistance program.

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