Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: grants for emergency notification systems that are accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils and making an appropriation. (FE)
Deaf and hearing impaired Public instruction department of School — Administration
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Department of Public Instruction must establish a grant program to award grants to school districts that install emergency notification systems that are accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils or upgrade emergency notification systems to make them accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing pupils. Each grant to a school district may not exceed the amount the school district expended in installing or upgrading an emergency notification system. The bill provides $1,000,000 to DPI in each of fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for the grants.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Bare, Cruz, Brown, Clancy, Goodwin, Hong, Joers, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stubbs, Udell and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators Keyeski, Larson and Spreitzer
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1