WSR 15-13-041

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed June 9, 2015, 10:15 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Control of pets in college facilities.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.50.140(13).

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To update WAC language regarding animals on campus grounds and make sure it is in compliance with all relevant municipal, state and federal law.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The Washington human rights commission, the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Education, and the Federal Housing Administration regulate disability accommodations. The proposed rule complies with those agency regulations.

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 Kurt Buttleman, Vice Chancellor, 1500 Harvard Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 934-4111, Kurt.Buttleman@seattlecolleges.edu.

June 9, 2015

Jill A. Wakefield

Chancellor