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Bill asks CTE task force to add maritime careers, ferries representative and Coast Guard credential pathway

2608355 · March 13, 2025
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Summary

House Bill 11-67 would add a WSDOT Ferries Division representative to the statewide career and technical education task force and direct the task force to develop recommendations to expand maritime career pathways aligned with U.S. Coast Guard credentialing.

House Bill 11-67 asks the statewide career and technical education (CTE) task force to expand and strengthen pathways for maritime careers and adds a representative from the Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division to the task force.

Committee staff Elena Becker described the bill as building on the work of the CTE core plus model and the task force established in 2024. "The bill before you asks the task force to do two additional things. First, it modifies the task force's membership by adding a representative from the Washington State Department of Transportation or WSDOT's Ferries Division. And the bill also directs the task force to develop recommendations for expanding and strengthening opportunities that lead or articulate to public and private post secondary education programs…

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