WSR 17-07-074

EXPEDITED RULES

OFFICE OF THE CODE REVISER

[Filed March 16, 2017, 2:41 p.m.]

Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: Amending WAC 1-21-040 Washington State Register—Time for filing.

NOTICE

THIS RULE IS BEING PROPOSED UNDER AN EXPEDITED RULE-MAKING PROCESS THAT WILL ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR THE AGENCY TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS, PREPARE A SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT, OR PROVIDE RESPONSES TO THE CRITERIA FOR A SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATIVE RULE. IF YOU OBJECT TO THIS USE OF THE EXPEDITED RULE-MAKING PROCESS, YOU MUST EXPRESS YOUR OBJECTIONS IN WRITING AND THEY MUST BE SENT TO Kerry S. Radcliff, Rules Coordinator, Office of the Code Reviser, P.O. Box 40551, Olympia, WA 98504-0551, phone (360) 786-6697, email Kerry.Radcliff@leg.wa.gov, AND RECEIVED BY May 22, 2017.

Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: The purpose of this proposal is to accommodate the new forms and the methods used to complete the forms. In the past, we have asked agencies to add attachments on separate pages so the CR forms stay on the same page. This will no longer be necessary. The office of the code reviser is in the process of revamping the CR forms to incorporate changes requested by the governor's office, state agencies, and the public. Some of these changes to the forms include, but are not limited to:

•	Moving the area for the official stamp to be affixed to the top right of the forms. This is being done to allow areas in the form to expand to include all the information to answer each question, with no attachments necessary.
•	Adding a Regulatory Fairness Act cost consideration exemption check list.
•	Adding an area for the agency to briefly summarize the agency's analysis showing how costs were calculated where the proposal is not exempt but it does not impose more-than-minor costs on businesses.
•	Adding a checklist for the criteria being used for an agency using the expedited process and the reason for using that process.

Reasons Supporting Proposal: WAC 1-21-040 states "The office of the code reviser's filing forms are not included in this page count, but all other material submitted for filing is counted for purposes of this section, excluding federal rules that are not published in the Washington State Register." Since the forms will now expand to allow for no attachments being needed, we need to include the forms in the page count.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 1.08.110, 34.05.385, 34.08.020, and 34.08.030.

Statute Being Implemented: RCW 34.08.030.

Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.

Name of Proponent: Office of the code reviser, governmental.

Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting, Implementation, and Enforcement: Kerry S. Radcliff, P.O. Box 40551, Olympia, WA 98504-0551, (360) 786-6697.

March 16, 2017

K. Kyle Thiessen

Code Reviser

AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 06-16-019, filed 7/24/06, effective 8/24/06)

WAC 1-21-040 Washington State Register material—Time for filing.

To permit sufficient lead time for the editorial, data capture, and printing process, material to be published in a particular issue of the Washington State Register must be in the physical possession of and filed in the office of the code reviser according to the following schedule:

(1) If the material has been prepared and completed by the office of the code reviser's order typing service (OTS), by 12:00 noon on the fourteenth day before the distribution date of that issue of the Washington State Register; or

(2) If the material has been prepared by any means other than OTS and it contains:

(a) No more than ((ten)) twelve pages, by 12:00 noon on the fourteenth day before the distribution date of that Washington State Register; or

(b) More than ((ten)) twelve but less than ((thirty)) thirty-two pages, by 12:00 noon on the twenty-eighth day before the distribution date of that Washington State Register; or

(c) ((Thirty)) Thirty-two or more pages, by 12:00 noon on the forty-second day before the distribution date of that Washington State Register.

The office of the code reviser's filing forms ((are not)) will be included in this page count((, but all other material submitted for filing is counted for purposes of this section, excluding federal rules that are not published in the Washington State Register)).