This bill creates new statewide school safety programs and amends existing education statutes. It requires the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to establish and maintain a public school safety data dashboard on its website, to collect annually updated incident data for each public school and district beginning September 2025, and to use that data to rate schools and districts with a state safety rating system. The dashboard must display incidents sorted by severity categories (from the most serious, including weapons incidents, down to minor disruptive behaviors) and OSPI must notify regional school safety centers so available funding and resources can be prioritized to schools and districts rated most vulnerable. The bill directs OSPI to follow K-12 data governance protocols and relevant data system standards when collecting and releasing non‑personally identifiable data. The bill creates a school safety capital grant program administered by OSPI and adds a new funding allocation for one school resource officer (SRO) on each school campus. The grant program is limited to physical safety and security capital improvements, must incorporate crime prevention through environmental design where applicable, is competitive, allows OSPI to use up to 3 percent of appropriations for administration, requires applicants to demonstrate at least 10 years of site control, and limits individual grant projects to estimated costs of $1,000,000 or less. Repayment obligations to the state general fund are required for noncompliance and must include principal plus interest calculated at a state general obligation bond rate; part of the repayment language is not fully provided in the extracted text. The new SRO allocation requires the superintendent to allocate state funding sufficient for one SRO per campus, with an annual salary allocation set at $85,000 adjusted for inflation beginning in 2025‑26 and fringe benefits determined by the omnibus appropriations act; funding for SROs is made part of the state’s basic education program and distribution rules are to be adopted. The bill also makes multiple procedural and discipline-related changes to existing law. It amends rules on suspension, expulsion, emergency removal, and classroom exclusion to clarify due process timelines and limits (for example, short-term suspensions up to 10 school days, emergency removals to be ended or converted within 10 school days, and any suspension or expulsion longer than 10 days to end no later than the length of an academic term unless an approved petition permits otherwise). Principals are directed to consider long‑term suspension or expulsion in specified repeat or serious-offense situations; teachers may exclude students from individual classrooms pending conference with principals; districts must continue to provide educational services during suspensions; districts must collect and submit disciplinary action data to the statewide data system consistent with OSPI standards; OSPI must monitor specified safe‑school programs at least once every five years; and a legislative joint committee is directed to audit compliance and report by November 1, 2030 (the committee’s audit authority expires August 1, 2031). The act adds new sections to several chapters of the RCW and amends multiple existing RCWs. Important details are missing from the provided text, including the full repayment provision language, the specific methodology or criteria for the state safety rating system, the full text of several listed RCW amendments, and some effective or expiration dates beyond those expressly stated.

If enacted, the state will require every public school to collect and submit annual incident data beginning September 2025 and OSPI will publish a public school safety dashboard and assign safety ratings that will steer state and federal school safety dollars to the schools and districts judged most vulnerable. OSPI also must run a competitive capital grant program limited to projects of $1,000,000 or less (with grantees showing 10 years of site control), may use up to 3% of the grant money for administration, and grant awards funded by general obligation bonds would be repaid to the state general fund with interest at bond rates; OSPI must adopt rules for these programs. The act also creates a statutory allocation for one school resource officer per campus funded at a base salary of $85,000 (inflation‑adjusted from 2025–26) plus fringe benefit funding per the omnibus appropriations act, changes discipline rules to limit long suspensions, require continued access to educational services during suspensions, expand teacher authority to exclude disruptive students from a classroom, requires districts to collect and report discipline data, and establishes periodic OSPI monitoring and a legislative audit with a report due November 1, 2030. The agencies and groups most affected are OSPI (new responsibilities for the dashboard, rating system, grants, rulemaking and monitoring), school districts and schools (new reporting duties, changes to discipline procedures, and potential shifts in which schools receive prioritized funding), charter and state‑tribal compact schools (included in funding and reporting changes), and school resource officers/safety staff (a dedicated state funding stream). Practical impacts likely include increased administrative work and possible costs at OSPI and schools to collect and submit data and to meet grant eligibility requirements; some schools may receive new state funding for SROs or capital safety projects while others may not, depending on ratings and appropriations. Important details that affect fiscal impact and how funds are prioritized — such as the rating methodology, total appropriations for the grant program, and some timing and repayment specifics — are not included in the provided text.