This bill amends existing law, RCW 28A.155.090, to add a duty for the superintendent of public instruction to maintain an online, public, no-charge record of all final decisions issued in response to special education community complaints. Each final decision must be available online for 20 years after the complaint is finalized, and if OSPI does not have 20 years of historical records at the section’s effective date, OSPI must post records for the longest period available. The change is a procedural and recordkeeping requirement; it does not create a new crime or change penalties. The amendment leaves the statute’s existing enumerated duties of the superintendent intact (the listed duties in items (1) through (7) and a renumbered (9)), which include assisting districts, providing information to parents, approving certain programs, setting standards for private contractors, administering hearings and procedural safeguards, and promulgating rules to implement federal IDEA Part B and related state law. Agencies and groups affected include the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, school districts, parents or guardians of children with disabilities, state-approved private schools, and private entities that contract with districts to provide special education services. The bill text references other state statutes (RCW 28A.225.250; 28A.305.130; 28A.155.060; 28A.150.390; 28A.160.030; 28A.155.010–.160) and federal IDEA Part B. The extracted text does not state the effective date of the new requirement, does not define terms such as “special education community complaints,” “final decisions,” or the “administrative section or unit for the education of children with disabilities,” and it is unclear from these facts whether the bill contains additional provisions beyond the amendment to RCW 28A.155.090. Legislative procedural dates shown are first read 02/04/26, passed Senate 02/11/26 (49-0), and passed House 03/03/26 (93-0).

If enacted, the law would require the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to keep an online, free-to-the-public record of every final decision issued in response to special education community complaints and make those records available for 20 years after each complaint is finalized; if OSPI does not already have 20 years of historical decisions at the effective date, it must publish whatever historical decisions it does have for the longest period available. That creates a new, ongoing public-records duty for OSPI to maintain and provide access to these decisions. The people and organizations most affected are OSPI (which gains a lasting publication and maintenance responsibility and will likely face additional administrative costs), school districts and private entities that provide special education services (their complaint outcomes will be publicly accessible, increasing transparency and potential public scrutiny), and parents or guardians of children with disabilities (who will have improved access to past complaint decisions). The extracted facts do not state the bill’s effective date or fully define terms like "special education community complaints" or "final decisions," so timing and certain implementation details remain unclear.