WSR 15-05-059

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed February 16, 2015, 1:48 p.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Revise chapter 132N-300 WAC, Grievance procedure—Discrimination and chapter 132N-125 WAC, Code of student conduct.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.50.140.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Revision is necessary to comply with the latest Title IX, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and campus SaVE requirements.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (Titles VII and IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964), VAWA, and Washington state human rights commission, chapter 49.60 RCW.

Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Matthew Rygg, Dean of Student Success and Retention, Clark College, 1933 Ft. Vancouver Way, GHL 204, Vancouver, WA 98663, mrygg@clark.edu, phone (360) 992-2983, fax (360) 992-2878.

February 16, 2015

Bob Williamson

Vice-President of

Administrative Services