BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

SB 6320: Alternative learning

Concerning alternative learning experiences.

Summary

Restricts the definition of online provider and multidistrict online provider to public and nonprofit organizations.
Prohibits the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) from approving a private or for-profit organization as an online provider or multidistrict online provider and directs OSPI to rescind the approval of any such providers by August 1, 2026.
Revises the definition of student enrollment for the purpose of awarding local effort assistance funding to exclude the full-time equivalent student enrollment for students attending remote or online alternative learning experience programs.
Creates a process through which districts may petition for the restoration of local effort assistance funding for students in online and remote alternative learning experiences on a per-student basis.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6320), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to alternative learning experiences;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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SB 6320 (2015–16) Rx drugs/costs · Did not pass · died in committee
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SB 6320 (2011–12) Brd of ed/unfunded mandates · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 6320 (2009–10) Adult adoptees/birth info · Did not pass · died in committee
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