This bill amends RCW 28B.77.310 to establish the workforce education investment accountability and oversight board as an 18‑member body and sets its composition, appointment process, terms, leadership, quorum, meeting frequency, staffing, data consulting requirements, and reporting duty. Most members are appointed by the governor with senate consent, four legislative members serve ex officio (the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislature’s higher education and workforce development committees), appointed non‑ex officio members serve three‑year terms, student members serve one‑year terms, and cochairs serve two‑year terms and are elected biennially with one cochair required to be a legislative committee chair and the other a business representative meeting specified RCW criteria. Nine voting members constitute a quorum, the board must meet at least four times per year, the Student Achievement Council provides staff support, the board must consult data from the Education Data Center, the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, and the Student Achievement Council when reviewing investments, and it must report recommendations to appropriate legislative committees by December 31 annually. The amendment also removes a prior statutory requirement that the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board maintain a public‑facing workforce education investment accountability and oversight board data dashboard and work with the board to update or modify that dashboard. This is an organizational and procedural change to state law establishing an oversight body, its governance, data and reporting obligations, and deleting a statutorily required public dashboard; it does not create criminal offenses or change penalties. The extracted text does not include the statutory definition or full description of the workforce education investment account, the exact chapter name referenced for the Student Achievement Council, the full definition of “institutions of higher education” (referenced by RCW 28B.10.016), or surrounding legislative history explaining the dashboard deletion.

If enacted, Washington would create an 18-member oversight board that meets at least quarterly, is staffed by the Student Achievement Council, and must send annual recommendations to the Legislature about workforce education investments and measures of student success. That structure will concentrate responsibility for advising lawmakers and reviewing investment outcomes in a single body with defined member terms and cochair roles, and it will likely increase workload on the Student Achievement Council as staff support and on the agencies named as data sources (the Education Data Center and the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board) to supply information the board will consult. The groups most affected are the Student Achievement Council (added staffing and coordination duties), the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board and the Education Data Center (more frequent data requests), the institutions, businesses, labor organizations, and students who will serve as appointed members, and the Legislature as the recipient of annual recommendations that could influence funding and policy. The bill also removes the prior explicit duty for the coordinating board to maintain a public-facing data dashboard, so it is unclear where or how public presentation of the board’s accountability information will be maintained and who will now be responsible for that function; the statutory definition of the workforce education investment account and some chapter context are also not included in the provided facts.