This bill adds a new section to chapter 28B.92 RCW that creates new procedural duties for an unnamed "office": beginning with the 2025-26 academic year the office must track the amounts of state financial aid awarded to each student who receives funds through the "Washington application for state financial aid," make the total award amounts publicly available on the office's website, and beginning December 1, 2026 and annually thereafter report to the appropriate legislative committees (in accordance with RCW 43.01.036) the total number of students who applied using that application, the total number who received state aid through it, and the total amount of state aid disbursed to each institution of higher education on behalf of an applicant. The change is a new statutory reporting, tracking, and public-transparency requirement (a procedural change); it does not, in the provided text, create a new crime or change penalties. The extracted text does not identify the office by name, does not define the term "Washington application for state financial aid," does not specify which legislative committees qualify as the "appropriate committees," and does not give a precise section number or placement in chapter 28B.92 RCW. The text also omits details on data format, student privacy protections or identifiers, timing for posting beyond the general requirement to publish totals, enforcement mechanisms, funding, or other administrative procedures. The bill was referred to the Committee on Postsecondary Education & Workforce.

If enacted, an unnamed state higher education office would have to begin collecting how much state financial aid is awarded to people who use the "Washington application for state financial aid" starting in the 2025–26 school year, publish total award amounts on its website, and then each year beginning December 1, 2026 report to the legislature the number who applied, the number who received aid, and how much was paid to each college on behalf of those applicants. That will create recurring public summaries showing the volume of state aid tied to that application and where those dollars are going. The office itself is most directly affected because it gains ongoing data collection, publication, and reporting duties and likely will need staff time or other resources to carry them out; colleges will face greater public visibility of how much state aid they receive for these applicants; students who use that application may have aggregate award totals published, though the bill text does not say whether individual identities or privacy protections are covered. Important details are missing: the bill text does not identify which agency is "the office," what the "Washington application for state financial aid" specifically is, which legislative committees get the reports, or whether additional funding or enforcement mechanisms are provided.