WSR 15-13-134

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed June 17, 2015, 10:59 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: WAC 246-817-160 Graduates of nonaccredited schools, the dental quality assurance commission (commission) is considering amendments to education requirements for graduates of nonaccredited dental schools to clarify required clinical education and examination eligibility process.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 18.32.002, 18.32.0365, 18.32.040, and 18.32.222.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The commission is considering updates that identify a clinical education requirement and provide an alternative for examination eligibility.

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

Process for Developing New Rule: Collaborative rule making.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Department of Health, Dental Quality Assurance Commission, Jennifer Santiago, P.O. Box 47852, Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 236-4893, jennifer.santiago@doh.wa.gov. Interested stakeholders may sign up for the commission's listserv at http://listserv.wa.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=dental-qac&A=1. All rule-making notices will be e-mailed to the commission's interested parties list (listserv) and appropriate state associations. Rule drafting will take place in open public meetings where comments will be accepted verbally and in writing.

June 15, 2015

Trina Castle

Executive Director