House Bill 2570 adds a new section to chapter 28A.310 RCW that authorizes the school information processing cooperative of Washington’s educational service districts to develop, maintain, and govern a statewide digital transcript file standard and a secure, platform-independent environment for exchanging transcript data between school districts, charter schools, state-tribal education compact schools, and postsecondary institutions. The environment must support secure, two-way exchange of transcript information. The bill requires that disclosure of digital transcript data occur only with the express, revocable permission of the student or the student’s parent or legal guardian when required by law. Participation by the listed public entities in the statewide environment satisfies data-sharing authorization requirements between those participating entities for the purposes covered by the section and eliminates the need for individual bilateral data-sharing agreements. School districts, charter schools, state-tribal education compact schools, and public institutions of higher education (per RCW 28B.10.016) must participate; private four-year not-for-profit institutions in Washington (per RCW 28B.92.030(4)(b)) may participate. The cooperative must establish governance to oversee transcript content, compliance, and the ongoing evolution of the digital transcript standard. The text provided does not include technical specifications, governance composition or procedures, enforcement mechanisms or penalties, funding, timelines or effective dates, the existing legal status or structure of the cooperative in chapter 28A.310 RCW, or whether other types of institutions are eligible or excluded.

If enacted, the bill creates a single statewide system and file standard for securely sending and receiving student transcripts between K–12 schools (including school districts, charter schools, and state-tribal compact schools) and public colleges and universities, with private four‑year non‑profit colleges allowed to join. Participating K–12 and public higher education institutions would no longer need separate bilateral data‑sharing agreements, and schools will have to get and honor express, revocable permission from students or parents before sharing transcript data. The school information processing cooperative gains authority and new oversight duties to build and run the standard and governance body, shifting responsibility and administrative work to that cooperative. The main impacts on districts and colleges are likely easier transcript exchange and reduced legal paperwork but also new technical, staffing, and compliance work to join the system; the bill does not specify funding, timelines, technical requirements, governance makeup, or enforcement, so actual costs, rollout speed, and operational details remain unclear.