Date Adopted: January 7, 2004.

     Purpose: To add the requirement that three copies of the permanently adopted order package (text and form) must also go to the Joint Administrative Rules Review Committee.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 1-21-070.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.385, 34.08.030, and Executive Order 03-01.

     Other Authority: Executive Order 03-01.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-21-159 on October 22, 2003.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

January 7, 2004

Dennis W. Cooper

Code Reviser

OTS-6754.1

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 00-18-001, filed 8/23/00, effective 12/31/00)

WAC 1-21-070   Administrative order.   (1) The administrative order by which an agency adopts a rule shall be done on a CR-103 form (Rule-making Order) provided by the code reviser's office or, if required by agency practice, on an agency form that provides the information required by RCW 34.05.360.

     (2) The agency shall file with the code reviser's office the original and ((three)) six copies of the ((text of)) permanent ((rules, along with four copies of the administrative order. Emergency rules require an additional three copies of the order and the text, which the agency shall file with the joint administrative rules review committee after the copies have been stamped by the code reviser's office)) or emergency package (form and text). The joint administrative rules review committee has requested that the agency submit three of these copies to the committee for purposes of legislative review. The agency should keep the remaining copy for its files.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.356, 34.05.385, and 34.08.030. 00-18-001, § 1-21-070, filed 8/23/00, effective 12/31/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.385, 34.08.020, 34.08.030, 34.05.230, 34.05.354 and 1997 c 409 §§ 202 and 208. 97-15-035, § 1-21-070, filed 7/10/97, effective 7/27/97. Statutory Authority: RCW 34.05.385 and 34.08.030. 89-12-028 (Order 89-1), § 1-21-070, filed 5/31/89.]