PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: March 30, 2001.
Purpose: The amendment established fees for the professional certificate which are equitable to fees for other educator certificates.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 180-79A-130.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.410.010.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 01-09-093 [01-05-093] on February 20, 2001.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
April 4, 2001
Larry Davis
Executive Director
OTS-4519.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 00-03-048, filed 1/14/00,
effective 2/14/00)
WAC 180-79A-130
Fee for certification.
(1) In accordance
with provisions of RCW 28A.410.060 and 28A.415.010, the fee for
certificates which are valid for more than one year, issued by
authority of the state of Washington and authorizing the holder
to serve in the common schools of the state, shall be as follows:
(a) The continuing ((and professional)) certificate((s)),
seventy dollars;
(b) The reinstatement, additional endorsement on the
teaching certificate, duplicate certificates, substitute
certificates, ((renewal of the residency certificate,)) and
certificates issued for the purpose of showing a name change,
fifteen dollars; and
(c) Any other certificate or credential or any renewal thereof, five dollars for each year of validity:
(d) Provided, That the fee for all vocational certificates shall be one dollar.
(2) The fee for any other certificate/credential, or for any renewal thereof, issued by the authority of the state of Washington and authorizing the holder to serve in the common schools of the state, shall be five dollars.
(3) Officials authorized to collect certification fees are educational service district superintendents, local school district superintendents, deans and directors of education at colleges and universities, or their designees. The fee must accompany the application for a certificate and shall be transmitted by the receiving district, college or university, or program unit designee at least quarterly to the educational service district within which the application is filed for disposition in accordance with provisions of RCW 28A.410.060. The fee shall not be refunded unless the application is withdrawn before it is finally considered (i.e., the issuance of a certificate or a written communication denying such issuance) by the superintendent of public instruction or his or her designee. Fees not refunded shall apply as credit toward certificate fees if such applicant reapplies within twenty-four months of the date of denial. Moneys accrued from certification fees within the boundaries of an educational service district shall be divided in the following manner:
(a) Local school districts employing more than one hundred teachers and other professional staff and collecting certification fees may retain one dollar of each fee in order to hold a professional training institute. If such district does not hold an institute, all such moneys shall be placed to the credit of the educational service district.
(b) No less than fifty percent of the funds accruing within the boundaries of an educational service district shall be used to support program activities related to state-wide precertification professional preparation and evaluation.
(c) The remaining funds shall be used to support professional in-service training programs and evaluations thereof.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010. 00-03-048, 180-79A-130, filed 1/14/00, effective 2/14/00; 97-04-088, 180-79A-130, filed 2/5/97, effective 3/8/97.]