SB 5727 - DIGEST

Requires the office of student financial assistance, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the state board for community and technical colleges, and the institutions of higher education, to create the Washington college bound dual enrollment scholarship program as a subprogram of the Washington college bound scholarship.

Specifies that for a student who receives a dual enrollment scholarship and then receives a college bound scholarship, the five-year period in which the student must use his or her award does not start until after high school graduation and the student receives the college bound scholarship.

Allows students to pay college in the high school and running start fees and textbook costs with Washington college bound dual enrollment scholarship awards.