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 House Committee on College & Workforce Development.

Date and Time: 02/25/2020 1:30PM (Subject to change by the Legislature.)
Location: John L. O'Brien Building, House Hearing Rm B, 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		-194,798
2022		-290,798
2023		-290,798
2024		-290,798
2025		-290,798
2026		-290,798
2027		-290,798
2028		-290,798
2029		-290,798
Total:		$ -2,521,182

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.

University of Washington:

We anticipate collecting application fees under S SB 6142. Given current Common Application policy, we anticipate that we will continue charging similar application fees after adopting the application. However, the exact amount of cash receipts is indeterminate given that we do not know how many applicants we will have, and how many of these applicants will be eligible for fee waivers.

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

University of Washington
Washington State University
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


House Committee on College & Workforce Development members and contact information:

Representative Steve Bergquist
Democrat
(360) 786-7862
Steve.Bergquist@leg.wa.gov

Representative Debra Entenman
Democrat
(360) 786-7918
ENTENMAN_DE@leg.wa.gov

Representative Chris Gildon
Republican
(360) 786-7968
GILDON_CH@leg.wa.gov

Representative Jenny Graham
Republican
(360) 786-7962
GRAHAM_JE@leg.wa.gov

Representative Drew Hansen
Democrat
(360) 786-7842
Drew.Hansen@leg.wa.gov

Representative Vicki Kraft
Republican
(360) 786-7994
Vicki.Kraft@leg.wa.gov

Representative Mari Leavitt
Democrat
(360) 786-7890
LEAVITT_MA@leg.wa.gov

Representative Jared Mead
Democrat
(360) 786-7892
MEAD_JA@leg.wa.gov

Representative Dave Paul
Democrat
(360) 786-7914
PAUL_DA@leg.wa.gov

Representative Gerry Pollet
Democrat
(360) 786-7886
Gerry.Pollet@leg.wa.gov

Representative Bill Ramos
Democrat
(360) 786-7852
RAMOS_BI@leg.wa.gov

Representative Skyler Rude
Republican
(360) 786-7828
RUDE_SK@leg.wa.gov

Representative Mike Sells
Democrat
(360) 786-7840
Mike.Sells@leg.wa.gov

Representative Vandana Slatter
Democrat
(360) 786-7936
Vandana.Slatter@leg.wa.gov

Representative Robert Sutherland
Republican
(360) 786-7967
SUTHERLA_RO@leg.wa.gov

Representative Luanne Van Werven
Republican
(360) 786-7980
Luanne.VanWerven@leg.wa.gov

Representative Jesse Young
Republican
(360) 786-7964
Jesse.Young@leg.wa.gov



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