Notice of Public Hearing for Substitute Senate Bill 6142

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SSB 6142, titled AN ACT Relating to creating the Washington common application, has been scheduled for a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Ways & Means.

Date and Time: 02/10/2020 10:00AM (Subject to change by the Legislature.)
Location: J.A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Rm 4, Olympia, WA

The Office of Financial Management has identified this bill as requiring a ten-year projection of increased cost to the taxpayers or affected fee payers.

Ten-year projection:

Fiscal Year		Application Fee
2020		$
2021		0
2022		-96,000
2023		-96,000
2024		-96,000
2025		-96,000
2026		-96,000
2027		-96,000
2028		-96,000
2029		-96,000
Total:		$ -768,000

Western Washington University:

Section 2.1 requires that that all public four year institutions of higher education enroll in the same preexisting online application to admit students for the 2022-23 academic year.  

The preexisting application must include (a) more than 500 institutional participants and (b) have an established application fee waiver process for low-income students. 

Section 2.2 specifies that nothing in the bill precludes an institution from adopting a second preexisting online application if it includes more than 100 institutional participants and has an established application fee waiver process for low-income students.

We anticipate a loss of revenue with moving to a Common Application for the following reasons:

•We expect the Common Application administration to take approximately $4.80 per application to cover administrative costs. We estimate approximately 15,000 undergraduate applications would be submitted through the common application, which would result in a loss of revenue of approximately $72,000 per year.

•We also estimate (given our current fee waiver criteria) that approximately 12,000  applications will be from students who do not qualify for an application fee waiver. For these students, Western would incur a $2.00 transaction fee for each application that does not qualify for an application fee waiver. This would result in a loss of revenue of approximately $24,000 per year.

It is possible that Western would choose to increase our application fee to cover these costs, but at this time it is unknown if we would choose to do so.

The Evergreen State College:

We are not able to assess how the number of students applying to Evergreen will be impacted be the six public four-year institutions of higher education using the same application for admission, therefore the impact on cash receipts related to the application fee is unknown.

Central Washington University:

Cash receipts associated with this legislation are unknown as no common application fee amount has been agreed upon by the public four-year institutions nor is it known how many applications each institution may receive by using a national common application.

Eastern Washington University:

Eastern is unable to estimate the number of applicants that will utilize the common application and what the associated fee would be.

Ten-year projection prepared in consultation with the following agencies:

Eastern Washington University
Central Washington University
The Evergreen State College
Western Washington University

The substitute bill was proposed by:

Senate Committee on Higher Education & Workforce Development
(360) 786-7415



The original bill sponsors and contact information are:

Senator Marko Liias, Prime Sponsor
Democrat
(360) 786-7640
Marko.Liias@leg.wa.gov

Senator Emily Randall
Democrat
(360) 786-7650
RANDALL_EM@leg.wa.gov

Senator Manka Dhingra
Democrat
(360) 786-7672
Manka.Dhingra@leg.wa.gov

Senator Bob Hasegawa
Democrat
(360) 786-7616
Bob.Hasegawa@leg.wa.gov

Senator Mark Mullet
Democrat
(360) 786-7608
Mark.Mullet@leg.wa.gov

Senator Joe Nguyen
Democrat
(360) 786-7667
NGUYEN_JO@leg.wa.gov

Senator Derek Stanford
Democrat
(360) 786-7600
Derek.Stanford@leg.wa.gov

Senator Reuven Carlyle
Democrat
(360) 786-7670
Reuven.Carlyle@leg.wa.gov

Senator Claire Wilson
Democrat
(360) 786-7658
WILSON_CL@leg.wa.gov


Senate Committee on Ways & Means members and contact information:

Senator Randi Becker
Republican
(360) 786-7602
Randi.Becker@leg.wa.gov

Senator Andy Billig
Democrat
(360) 786-7604
Andy.Billig@leg.wa.gov

Senator John Braun
Republican
(360) 786-7638
John.Braun@leg.wa.gov

Senator Sharon Brown
Republican
(360) 786-7614
Sharon.Brown@leg.wa.gov

Senator Reuven Carlyle
Democrat
(360) 786-7670
Reuven.Carlyle@leg.wa.gov

Senator Steve Conway
Democrat
(360) 786-7656
Steve.Conway@leg.wa.gov

Senator Jeannie Darneille
Democrat
(360) 786-7652
DARNEILL_JE@leg.wa.gov

Senator Manka Dhingra
Democrat
(360) 786-7672
Manka.Dhingra@leg.wa.gov

Senator David Frockt
Democrat
(360) 786-7690
David.Frockt@leg.wa.gov

Senator Bob Hasegawa
Democrat
(360) 786-7616
Bob.Hasegawa@leg.wa.gov

Senator Jim Honeyford
Republican
(360) 786-7684
Jim.Honeyford@leg.wa.gov

Senator Sam Hunt
Democrat
(360) 786-7642
Sam.Hunt@leg.wa.gov

Senator Karen Keiser
Democrat
(360) 786-7664
Karen.Keiser@leg.wa.gov

Senator Marko Liias
Democrat
(360) 786-7640
Marko.Liias@leg.wa.gov

Senator Mark Mullet
Democrat
(360) 786-7608
Mark.Mullet@leg.wa.gov

Senator Ron Muzzall
Republican
(360) 786-7618
MUZZALL_RO@leg.wa.gov

Senator Jamie Pedersen
Democrat
(360) 786-7628
Jamie.Pedersen@leg.wa.gov

Senator Ann Rivers
Republican
(360) 786-7634
Ann.Rivers@leg.wa.gov

Senator Christine Rolfes
Democrat
(360) 786-7644
Christine.Rolfes@leg.wa.gov

Senator Mark Schoesler
Republican
(360) 786-7620
Mark.Schoesler@leg.wa.gov

Senator Kevin Van De Wege
Democrat
(360) 786-7646
Kevin.VanDeWege@leg.wa.gov

Senator Keith Wagoner
Republican
(360) 786-7676
Keith.Wagoner@leg.wa.gov

Senator Judy Warnick
Republican
(360) 786-7624
Judith.Warnick@leg.wa.gov

Senator Lynda Wilson
Republican
(360) 786-7632
Lynda.Wilson@leg.wa.gov



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