Expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college.

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SENATE BILL 5304

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senators Kauffman, Nobles, Frame, Hasegawa, Krishnadasan, Liias, Riccelli, Slatter, Trudeau, Valdez, and C. Wilson; by request of Student Achievement Council

Read first time 01/16/25. Referred to Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development.

AN ACT Relating to expanding eligibility for the students experiencing homelessness and foster youth program to an accredited tribal college; and amending RCW 28B.77.850 .

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 28B.77.850 and 2023 c 339 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, each public four-year institution of higher education and a public tribal college located in Washington and accredited by the northwest commission on colleges and universities or another accrediting association recognized by the United States department of education may implement a program to provide assistance to students experiencing homelessness and to students who were in the foster care system when they graduated high school. The program must provide certain accommodations to these students that may include, but are not limited to, the following: