WSR 16-02-088

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed January 5, 2016, 10:49 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Institutional financial aid fund, WAC 131-36-050, 131-36-055, 131-36-100, and 131-36-250.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.15.067.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Rule amendments necessary to align with and meet recent statutory changes.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Washington student achievement council and Washington state office of attorney general.

Process for Developing New Rule: Normal rule making.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Scott Copeland, 1300 Quince Street S.E., P.O. Box 42495, Olympia, WA 98504, phone (360) 704-4397, scopeland@sbctc.edu.

January 5, 2016

Beth Gordon

Executive Assistant

and Rules Coordinator