PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Economic Services Administration)
(Division of Assistance Programs)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: WAC 388-412-0025 Issuing food assistance benefits; 388-412-0040 Replacing lost, stolen, or destroyed food assistance allotments; and related sections.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 74.04.510, 74.04.050, and 74.04.057.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: These WACs are being revised because the department has changed the way food benefits are issued. They are being revised to remove the mention of FCA coupons.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The United State Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service sets federal requirements of the food stamp program and publishes them in a Code of Federal Regulations and Administrative Notices. The department will incorporate the federal requirements as we create rules on this subject.
Process for Developing New Rule: DSHS welcomes the public to take part in developing the rules. Anyone interested should contact the staff person identified below. After the rules are drafted, DSHS will file a copy with the Office of the Code Reviser with a notice of proposed rule making. A copy of the draft will be sent to everyone on the mailing list and to anyone who requests a copy.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Samarra Lowe, Program Manager, Division of Assistance Programs, Lacey Government Center, P.O. Box 45470, Olympia, WA 98504-4570, phone (360) 413-3032, fax (360) 413-3493, e-mail lowesm@dshs.wa.gov.
June 14, 2000
Marie Myerchin-Redifer
Manager