WSR 16-11-022

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed May 6, 2016, 3:46 p.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Amendments to chapter 132G-136 WAC to prohibit weapons on campus.

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 increase security on campus, firearms and other weapons will be prohibited.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None identified. The state board for community and technical colleges has general supervision and control over the state system of community and technical colleges but does not regulate each individual college's rule making.

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 Stephen Smith, Vice-President for Human Resources and Legal Affairs, 16101 Greenwood Avenue North, Shoreline, WA 98133, phone (206) 546-4694, fax (206) 546-5850, e-mail sccrulemaking@shoreline.edu.

May 6, 2016

Stephen Smith

Vice-President for Human

Resources and Legal Affairs