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Panel hears bill to adjust WEA oversight board rules, remove dashboard mandate

Post Secondary Education & Workforce Committee · February 18, 2026
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Summary

The committee heard Substitute Senate Bill 5,931, which would extend co‑chair terms to two years, allow the WEA oversight board to meet more than four times annually, require consulting the Student Achievement Council on investments, and eliminate a statutory dashboard requirement; WASAC testified the dashboard was never built and had been defunded.

Substitute Senate Bill 5,931, proposing administrative changes to the Workforce Education Investment Account oversight board, was heard Feb. 18 by the Post Secondary Education & Workforce Committee. Saranda Ross, staff to the committee, summarized the bill’s principal changes and committee witnesses described the proposal as technical and nonfiscal.

The bill would lengthen co‑chair terms from one year to two years, align co‑chair elections with budgeting cycles, allow the WEA board to meet more than four times a year, require the board to consult with the Student Achievement Council when…

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