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

Feb 18, 2026

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.

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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.

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