The bill creates a new law by establishing the Washington State Commission on Boys and Men in the governor’s office and adding a new chapter to Title 43 RCW (sections 1–5). It is an organizational and procedural change that establishes a state commission administered by an executive director appointed by the governor (serving at the governor’s pleasure, with salary set by the governor) who may hire staff subject to available funding. The commission has 15 nonlegislative voting members appointed three each by the speaker of the house, house minority leader, president of the senate, senate minority leader, and three by the governor with senate advice and consent; two senators and two representatives (one from each major party) serve as nonvoting legislative advisory members. Initial member terms are staggered by lot (five one-year, five two-year, five three-year), thereafter three-year terms; vacancies are filled the same way. Voting members serve without compensation but may receive travel reimbursement under specified RCW provisions; legislative advisory members may be reimbursed under a different RCW provision. A simple majority of voting members is a quorum and the commission elects a chair and vice chair. The bill sets out the commission’s duties and powers as a procedural and advisory body: collecting and analyzing disaggregated data; evaluating systemic factors behind disparities; examining mental and physical health, substance use, suicide and premature mortality; assessing education and workforce pathways from early childhood through postsecondary and workforce preparation; examining fatherhood, family formation, and family stability; evaluating causes and prevention of disproportionate involvement in criminal and juvenile justice systems; reviewing experiences of boys and men within public systems (schools, health, housing, workforce programs, and courts); consulting with state agencies and stakeholders; serving as a clearinghouse; holding public hearings; providing recommendations to the governor and legislature; and submitting a biennial report to the legislature under RCW 43.01.036. The commission may solicit and expend gifts, grants, and endowments, enter into agreements with public and private entities, and adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW. State agencies are required to provide reasonable assistance to the commission upon request. Several important details are not provided in the extracted text. The bill text as presented contains no formal definitions for key terms used (for example, “boys,” “male youth,” “men,” “major political party,” or “demonstrated, credentialed subject matter expertise”), and it does not specify an effective date, initial funding or appropriation for the commission’s operations, or the timing and detailed process for the governor’s three appointments requiring senate advice and consent. The extracted facts also do not specify procedural details for how the commission will collect or analyze data or the scope of its authority to implement or require implementation of its recommendations.

If enacted, the state will stand up a new commission in the governor’s office to study mental and physical health, education, workforce, family roles, and justice system involvement for boys and men, and it will routinely request help and data from state agencies and public systems and deliver a report to the legislature every two years. The governor’s office will carry the burden of hosting and staffing the commission (including appointing an executive director whose salary the governor sets), legislative leaders must make multiple appointments, and schools, health, housing, workforce programs, and courts can expect requests for information and participation. The law gives the commission authority to accept gifts and grants and to adopt rules, but it does not include an appropriation or specific funding source or define key terms, so how quickly it becomes active and what it can accomplish will depend on whether the legislature or outside funders provide money; in the meantime agencies and appointed members may face added work and travel costs (members are unpaid but may be reimbursed) with uncertain resource support.