WSR 14-03-129

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed January 22, 2014, 8:44 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: The university is updating the standards of conduct for students, chapter 504-26 WAC.

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: To update, edit, and clarify the standards of conduct for students. Changes in federal law, specifically the 2013 reauthorization of and amendments to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. Section 13925, require updates to this chapter.

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 T. Jenks, Director, Office of Procedures, Records, and Forms, University Rules Coordinator, P.O. Box 641225, Pullman, WA 99164-1225, phone (509) 335-2005, fax (509) 335-3969, and e-mail prf.forms@wsu.edu. A public hearing will be held to permit comment to all proposed rules and revisions. There will be an opportunity to provide written comments to the proposed rules.

January 22, 2014

Ralph T. Jenks, Director

Procedures, Records, and Forms

and University Rules Coordinator