This bill amends RCW 28B.92.030 and adds new sections to chapter 28B.92 RCW to change how the Washington college grant maximum awards are set. It defines maximum grant amounts by type of institution and by whether the institution annually signs a required affidavit attesting to specified nondiscrimination policies and is not subject to certain prefinding settlements or final court orders. For institutions that sign the affidavit and are not subject to those settlements/orders, the bill specifies monetary maximums for private and for‑profit institutions (private four‑year not‑for‑profit $9,739; two‑year private not‑for‑profit $3,694; four‑year private for‑profit $8,517; two‑year private for‑profit $2,823; Western Governors University‑Washington $5,619) and authorizes those amounts to increase beginning 2025‑26 by no more than the "tuition growth factor." For public two‑ and four‑year institutions that sign the affidavit, the grant covers tuition and estimated fees for 15 quarter credits (or equivalent). For institutions that do not sign the affidavit or that are subject to specified settlements or orders, the maximums are fixed at stated levels or at 2024‑25 tuition/fees for public institutions. Approved apprenticeship programs are included beginning in 2022‑23, with maximums equal to the two‑year institution amount to cover tuition, fees, supplies, equipment, and other educational costs. The bill requires the Office of Student Financial Assistance to adopt rules allowing annual institutional affidavits that attest to nondiscrimination policies covering institutional operations and employment; theology academic programs and campus ministry employment, promotion, and tenure are expressly exempt from the affidavit requirements. It also states that institutions that take no action regarding signing the affidavit shall receive the maximum Washington college grant as provided in RCW 28B.92.030. A new section makes a procedural eligibility change: institutions subject to a prefinding settlement or a final court order for discriminatory employment practices under chapter 49.60 RCW are ineligible for adjustments to the maximum Washington college grant under RCW 28B.92.030(5) unless they have fulfilled the obligations of the order/settlement or have taken "significant and meaningful steps" to correct the violation as determined by the Washington state human rights commission in matters where the commission is a party. An institution involved in a court proceeding brought by the attorney general under RCW 49.60.350 may continue to receive the tuition growth factor until a final order adjudicates the matter. This is a modification of existing law with added sections; it creates procedural eligibility conditions and funding adjustments tied to affidavit signing and legal status regarding discrimination complaints. The extracted material is incomplete in places: the affidavit employer nondiscrimination subsection is cut off, the text of section 3 referenced in chunk 1 is not fully provided, the definitions or criteria for "prefinding settlement" and for what constitutes "significant and meaningful steps" are not set out here, and specific rulemaking procedures, affidavit form, or enforcement penalties (if any) are not included in the provided facts.

If enacted, the bill makes whether a college signs a required nondiscrimination affidavit and whether it is subject to certain discrimination settlements or court orders a determinative factor for how big the Washington College Grant can be at that school. For eligible private colleges and Western Governors University‑Washington the statute sets specific dollar maximums now and allows those amounts to rise each year beginning 2025‑26 by a limited “tuition growth factor”; public colleges that sign can have grants that match tuition and estimated fees for 15 quarter credits, while public colleges that don’t sign or that are under specified settlements/orders are limited to the 2024‑25 tuition/fee level. Approved apprenticeship programs become eligible for grant amounts equal to two‑year institutions starting in 2022‑23, theology and campus ministry programs are exempt, and institutions that take no action on the affidavit are stated to receive the maximum grant provided in RCW 28B.92.030. The people most affected are students who rely on Washington College Grants and the colleges themselves: colleges that sign the affidavit and are clear of discriminatory‑practice orders can see higher, annually indexed grant caps that make their programs relatively more affordable for eligible students, while colleges subject to settlements or orders risk having their grant limits frozen until they satisfy the order or take corrective steps judged sufficient by the Washington State Human Rights Commission; institutions in attorney general litigation keep growth until a final order. Key implementation details are missing from the extracted text—most notably the full affidavit language, the precise meaning of “prefinding settlement,” and the standards the commission will use to judge corrective steps—so some operational impacts and deadlines remain unclear.