An institution is not eligible to participate in the college in the high school pilot program if an affidavit attesting the adoption of nondiscrimination policies by the institution is not signed.

The affidavit must attest to the following nondiscrimination policies:

1. (1) Education programs and activities. Institution shall ensure that all education programs and activities are operated free of discrimination. Students shall not be discriminated on the basis of student's age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with disability, unless based upon bona fide qualification of the education program.

2. (2) Employment activities.

   1. (a) Institution shall not refuse to hire, promote, or confer tenure to any person because of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, unless based upon bona fide occupational qualification.

      1. (i) Institution is not prohibited from refusing employment if the particular disability prevents the proper performance of the particular work involved.
      2. (ii) Institution is not required to establish employment goals or quotas based on sexual orientation.
   2. (b) Institution shall not discharge or bar any person from employment because of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.

   3. (c) Institution shall not discriminate against any person in compensation or in other terms or conditions of employment because of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.

      Institution is not prohibited from segregating washrooms or locker room facilities on the basis of sex, or basing other terms and conditions of employment on the sex of employees where the Washington state human rights commission has by regulation or ruling in a particular instance found the employment practice to be appropriate for the practical realization of equality of opportunity between the sexes.

   4. (d) Institution shall not print or circulate any statement, or advertisement, or publication that expresses any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.

      1. (i) Institution shall not use any form of application for employment or make an inquiry in connection with prospective employment that expresses any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.
      2. (ii) Institutions are not prohibited from advertising in a foreign language.
3. (3) Theology academy programs and campus ministry departments. Participation in the theology academic programs and campus ministry departments at the institution, including employment, promotion, or granting of tenure of faculty members for courses of study in theology, are exempt from the requirements of this chapter.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.10.065 and 28B.77.050. WSR 25-10-020, s 250-110-020, filed 4/25/25, effective 5/26/25.]