WSR 15-14-025

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed June 23, 2015, 8:10 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Affirmative action.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 43.43.340.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Rule changes are being proposed to clean up the chapter and align the affirmative action language with the requirements under current statute.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Department of Justice. The Washington state patrol (WSP) anticipates providing draft language to impacted stakeholders for review and input as part of the process.

Process for Developing New Rule: The agency plans to develop a draft based on updates to the statute and provide the language to stakeholders for review and input as part of the process.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Dr. Ben Lastimado, WSP Human Resource Division, P.O. Box 42600, Olympia, WA 98504-2600, (350) [(360)] 704-2320, fax (360) 704-2297, Ben.Lastimado@wsp.wa.gov.

June 23, 2015

John R. Batiste

Chief