This bill adds a new section to chapter 28B.10 RCW (labeled "NEW SECTION. Sec. 1") that requires state universities, regional universities, and the state college to conspicuously post specified admissions information on their college or university websites. The required postings must cover both institution-level admissions and majoror program-specific admissions and include scoring criteria (which may include rubrics and weights for GPA, standardized tests, course taking, and other admissions components), demographic characteristics of applicants and those accepted (for example: race, ethnicity, age, gender, parental income and education, and residency), and grade point averages of applicants and those accepted. One paragraph of the text reiterates that the institutions must conspicuously post the criteria and rubrics used to score candidates for institutional admission and any criteria used in major-specific admissions. Legally, this is a new statutory requirement (a procedural change) imposed by creating a new section in the RCW; it does not, in the provided text, change criminal penalties or create new crimes. The provision explicitly names state universities, regional universities, the state college, and refers to each of their separate campuses in one place, so it affects those institutions and their admissions offices and processes. The excerpt does not define key terms such as "conspicuously post" or the precise set of institutions covered, and it does not specify posting format, update frequency, compliance deadlines, enforcement mechanisms, or penalties for noncompliance. There is a minor inconsistency between subsections about whether the requirement applies to "each of their separate campuses." The bill was read the first time on 01/31/25 and was referred to the Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development.

If enacted, public colleges named as "state universities," "regional universities," and "the state college" would need to put on their websites detailed admissions information: how applicants are scored (including rubrics and weights for GPA, tests, courses, essays, extracurriculars), the grade point averages of applicants and those admitted, and demographic breakdowns of applicants and admits (race, ethnicity, age, gender, parental income and education, residency). That will most directly affect campus admissions offices and institutional leadership, who will have to collect, analyze, and publish these data and may face more public scrutiny about admissions practices; prospective students and families will gain clearer, institutionand major-level information about how admission decisions are made. The change is likely to create additional administrative work and modest costs for data compilation, website maintenance, and privacy review, and could raise privacy and reputational risks if small-group data are exposed; no funding, timelines, enforcement mechanisms, or definitions (for example what counts as "conspicuously post" or which campuses are covered) are provided in the extracted text, so institutions will face uncertainty about the exact format, level of detail, update frequency, and compliance expectations.