1687 AMH CHAM MULV 422

HB 1687 - H AMD 792

By Representative Chambers

ADOPTED 02/12/2022

On page 3, line 25, after "time" strike "during" and insert "beginning with"

On page 5, after line 13, insert the following:

"Sec. 3. RCW 28B.118.090 and 2021 c 283 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Beginning January 1, 2015, and at a minimum every year thereafter, the student achievement council and all institutions of higher education eligible to participate in the college bound scholarship program shall ensure data needed to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the college bound scholarship program is promptly transmitted to the education data center created in RCW 43.41.400 so that it is available and easily accessible. The data to be reported should include but not be limited to:

(a) The number of enrolled students for the college bound scholarship program in seventh, eighth, or ninth grade;

(b) The number of college bound scholarship students who graduate from high school;

(c) The number of college bound scholarship students who enroll in postsecondary education, including how many enroll who graduated high school with less than a "C" average;

(d) Persistence and completion rates of college bound scholarship recipients disaggregated by institutions of higher education and by high school grade point average;

(e) College bound scholarship recipient grade point averages;

(f) The number of college bound scholarship recipients who did not remain eligible and reasons for ineligibility;

(g) College bound scholarship program costs; and

(h) Impacts to the Washington college grant program.

(2) Beginning May 12, 2015, and at a minimum every December 1st thereafter, the student achievement council shall submit student unit record data for the college bound scholarship program applicants and recipients to the education data center.

(3) Beginning July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the education data center shall submit to the student achievement council the data listed in this section that is submitted by institutions of higher education for the purposes of completing the annual legislative report required by this section.

(4) Beginning November 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the student achievement council shall submit a report to the higher education committees of the legislature in accordance with RCW 43.01.036 on the data listed in this section."

Correct the title.

EFFECT:

Clarifies that the change allowing a student with less than a C grade point average to receive the College Bound Scholarship (CBS) if the student enrolls in a community or technical college is effective beginning with the 2022-23 academic year, not only during that year.

Adds to the list of data that must be submitted by institutions of higher education and the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) to the Education Research and Data Center (ERDC): (1) how many students enroll in postsecondary education institutions who graduate high school with less than a "C" average; and (2) persistence and completion rates of CBS students by high school grade point average.

Requires the ERDC to annually send CBS data that is submitted by the institutions of higher education to WSAC beginning with July 1, 2023, so that WSAC may fulfill the legislative reporting requirement.

Requires an annual legislative report be submitted by WSAC beginning November 1, 2023, on the CBS data that is submitted to the ERDC.

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