This amendment to RCW 28B.77.310 creates (or formally establishes) the workforce education investment accountability and oversight board and sets its membership, governance, duties, and reporting requirements. The board has 18 members: four legislative ex officio members (the chairs and ranking minority members of the higher education and workforce development committees of both the Senate and House) and 14 governor-appointed members with Senate confirmation drawn from specified constituencies (including business representatives, labor organizations, institutions of higher education, students, independent non‑profit higher education institutions, and the workforce training and education coordinating board). The Student Achievement Council provides staff support and has one member on the board. The bill prescribes governance rules and procedures: two cochairs (one legislative committee chair and one business-representing member) serving two-year terms, biennial election of cochairs, a quorum of nine voting members, at least four meetings per year, student board members serving one-year terms, and other appointed members serving three-year terms until successors are appointed. The board must consult data from the education data center and the Student Achievement Council when reviewing workforce education investments and must report recommendations to the appropriate legislative committees by December 31 each year. The text also appears to remove a prior requirement that the workforce training and education coordinating board maintain a public data dashboard; the full original dashboard language and any comprehensive replacement mechanism are not included in the extracted text. The amendment references RCW 28B.77.310 (as amended by 2023 c 282 s 1) and cross-references RCW 82.04.299, RCW 82.04.290(2)(a)(i), RCW 28B.10.016, RCW 28C.18.020, and RCW 43.41.400. The extracted material does not include the complete original statute or other related statutory changes, so some implementation details and broader statutory context are uncertain.

If enacted, the state would create an 18‑member oversight board that meets at least quarterly, is staffed by the Student Achievement Council, and must give the legislature annual recommendations by December 31 on how workforce education investments are prioritized and whether they are producing intended results. The board’s makeup—legislative leaders plus business, labor, higher education, student, and workforce board representatives—means those groups will have direct influence on how the legislature evaluates and redirects workforce education spending and programs. The Student Achievement Council will take on the practical burden of supporting the board and may incur ongoing staffing and meeting costs, while the governor and senate will have appointment and confirmation duties and legislative committee leaders will have new participation and leadership roles. Businesses, labor unions, colleges, and related boards gain new responsibilities to participate in oversight. The text does not specify dedicated funding for board operations or clearly say how a previously referenced public data dashboard will be handled, so the exact costs and implementation details remain uncertain.