PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Public records.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.30.150.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The rules are revised to update the procedures for requesting public records from Washington State University. The revision incorporates suggestions and wording from the model rules provided by the attorney general's office.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Reviewed internally at many levels before proposal.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Ralph Jenks, P.O. Box 641225, Pullman, WA 99164-1225, phone (509) 335-2005, fax (509) 335-3969, e-mail jenks@wsu.edu. There will be a public hearing to permit comment on the proposed rules and revisions. There will be an opportunity to provide written comments on the proposed rules.
July 27, 2006
Ralph T. Jenks, Director
Office of Procedures, Records, and
Forms and University Rules Coordinator