WSR 13-13-025

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed June 12, 2013, 11:16 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 314-38 WAC, Permits.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 66.08.030.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: SSB 5774 passed in the 2013 legislative session. Rules are needed to clarify the new law for culinary schools that wish to allow their students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the culinary course.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.

Process for Developing New Rule: Interested parties can participate in the discussions formulating this rule change by contacting or sending written comments to the agency staff listed below.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Karen McCall, Agency Rules Coordinator, P.O. Box 43080, Olympia, WA 98504-3080, (360) 664-1631, fax (360) 664-9689.

June 12, 2013

Sharon Foster

Chairman