This bill adds new sections to state law (chapter 28B.10 RCW, chapter 28B.92 RCW, and chapter 28B.118 RCW) to create a legal consequence for a student whom a court determines has caused damage to the physical assets of any institution of higher education in an amount equal to or greater than the cost of the current full academic year's tuition and fees for one residential student at that institution. Under the new rule the affected student becomes immediately ineligible for all state grants, scholarships, and other state financial aid, and the student must immediately repay all current and previously awarded state grants, scholarships, and other financial aid to the awarding state agency as ordered by the court. The act authorizes the Student Achievement Council to adopt rules to implement the new statutory section. It specifies that awards under chapter 28B.92 RCW are immediately repayable to the awarding agency when the court order exists, and that property rights in awards under chapter 28B.118 RCW immediately revert to the state and those awards are immediately repayable. The provisions take effect immediately upon the court’s determination and involve courts, institutions of higher education, students, awarding state agencies, and the Student Achievement Council. Important details are not provided in the extracted text: the bill does not define how to calculate the monetary threshold, it does not list or define which specific grants or awards beyond the chapter citations are covered, it does not describe the type of court proceeding, the standard of proof, enforcement or collection procedures, appeals processes, interactions with federal financial aid, or any deadlines for the Council’s rulemaking. The exact new section numbers added to the cited chapters are not shown in the extracted facts.

If a court finds a student damaged campus property at or above the amount equal to that school’s current full academic year tuition and fees for a resident student, that student would immediately lose access to all state grants, scholarships, and financial aid and be required to repay all current and past state awards to the agencies that gave them. Awards governed by chapter 28B.118 RCW would immediately revert to the state and also become repayable, so affected students could face large, immediate financial bills and likely be unable to continue with state-funded enrollment without first resolving those debts. Colleges and universities, students who receive state aid, the state agencies that award aid, and the courts would see the biggest changes: schools or courts could trigger loss of aid and collections, agencies would be responsible for getting repayments, and the Student Achievement Council will make implementing rules. Important details are unclear from the text provided — notably how to calculate the tuition-and-fees threshold, which specific awards are covered, how a court makes the finding, and how repayments will be enforced or appealed — so how this will work in practice and how quickly collections would proceed remains uncertain.