SB 6493 — Increasing transparency and accountability for intercollegiate athletic programs.

S-4650.1SUBSTITUTES-3917.2SENATE SENATE BILL 6493State of Washington65th Legislature2018 Regular SessionBy Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development (originally sponsored by Senators Billig, Palumbo, Ranker, Carlyle, Hasegawa, and Kuderer)READKudererRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/01/18.AN01/19/18. ACT Relating to increased transparency and accountability for intercollegiate athletic programs at public colleges and universities;

andReferred adding a new section to chapterCommittee 28B.15on RCW.BEHigher ITEducation ENACTED& BYWorkforce THEDevelopment.AN LEGISLATUREACT OFRelating THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapterincreased 28B.15transparency RCW to read as follows:(1) The board of trustees or regents of each of the state's colleges and universitiesaccountability under RCW 28B.15.005 must specifically approve in an open public meeting, the annual budget for its programs for intercollegiate athletic competition in advance of any expenditure for that fiscal year.(2) If a college or university's programs experience an operating deficit at thepublic endcolleges of any fiscal year, the board of trustees or regents must:(a) Approve a plan for how the programs will reduce operating deficits in future fiscal years;(b) Conspicuously post to the college or university's web site the financial statements of the programs for the three prior fiscal years and theuniversities; plan in (a) of this subsection.

Anyand publicadding recordsa requestnew forsection ato copychapter 28B.15 RCW.BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.15 RCW to read as follows:(1) The board of trustees or regents of each of the financialstate's statementscolleges orand planuniversities under RCW 28B.15.005 must bespecifically atapprove noin costan open public meeting any expenditure for or transfer made to its programs for intercollegiate athletic competition if the requester;(c)programs Approvehad an operating deficit in advancethe anyprevious fiscal year, and the expenditure or transfer is a:(a) New expenditure exceeding twoone hundred fiftythousand dollars;(b) Continuing expenditure that has increased by one hundred thousand dollars;

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or(b)Any Requiredpublic torecords meetrequest anfor immediatea publiccopy safetyof need.(4)the Unlessfinancial thestatements contextor clearlyplan requiresmust otherwise,be at no cost to the definitionsrequester.(3) inFor the purposes of this subsectionsection, applythe throughoutfollowing thisdefinitions section:(a)apply:(a) "Expenditure" means any discrete purchase, payment, contract amendment, or expense,expense unlessfrom thata expendituresource isother requiredthan torevenue meetdirectly angenerated immediateby publicthe safetyprograms.(b) need.(b) "Operating costs" means all direct and indirect costs to operate the programs including the value of any costs that are typically charged to departments, but have been waived by the college or university.

Waived costs include, but are not limited to the value of tuition waivers for student athletes and any internal or central service costs not charged to the programs.(c) "Operating deficit" means the amount by which the aggregate operating costs of the programs exceeds the aggregated receipts and revenue directly generated by the programs in the fiscal year.(d) "Programs for intercollegiate athletic competition" or "programs" means those programs established under RCW 28B.10.703.(e) "Transfers" means any transfer of moneys to an account used by programs for intercollegiate athletic competition from any account that holds moneys not directly generated by the programs.--- END ---