Requiring free speech information for students at institutions of higher education.

SB 5607 requires all Washington state public colleges and universities to provide a mandatory "free speech fundamentals workshop" to every incoming student beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. The workshop must cover each institution's free speech policies, examples of policy violations, and types of protected speech, and must be offered during orientation or early in the academic year. Institutions are encouraged to use materials developed with constitutional law experts. This bill directly affects all incoming students at Washington's public higher education institutions and aims to educate them about First Amendment rights and campus speech policies. The requirement applies to all public institutions of higher education under Chapter 28B.10 RCW.