WSR 19-02-025
PROPOSED RULES
OFFICE OF
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
[Filed December 21, 2018, 11:30 a.m.]
Original Notice.
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: WAC 357-31-395 What definitions apply to shared leave?
Hearing Location(s): On February 14, 2019, at 8:30 a.m., at the Office of Financial Management (OFM), Capitol Court Building, 1110 Capitol Way South, Suite 120, Conference Room 110, Olympia, WA 98501.
Date of Intended Adoption: February 21, 2019.
Submit Written Comments to: Brandy Chinn, OFM, P.O. Box 47500, Olympia, WA 98501, email Brandy.Chinn@ofm.wa.gov, fax 360-586-4694, by February 7, 2019.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact OFM, TTY 711 or 1-800-833-6384, by February 7, 2018 [2019].
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: The proposed amendment to WAC 357-31-395 is to expand the definition of employee's relative to include sibling.
Reasons Supporting Proposal: To allow an employee the ability to request to receive shared leave for a sibling who suffers from an illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition which is of an extraordinary or severe nature.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter
41.04 RCW.
Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.
Name of Proponent: [OFM], governmental.
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting, Implementation, and Enforcement: Brandy Chinn, 128 10th Avenue, Olympia, WA 98501, 360-407-4141.
A school district fiscal impact statement is not required under RCW
28A.305.135.
A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW
34.05.328. Rules are related to internal government operations and are not subject to violation by a nongovernmental party. See RCW
34.05.328 (5)(b)(ii) for exemption.
This rule proposal, or portions of the proposal, is exempt from requirements of the Regulatory Fairness Act because the proposal:
Is exempt under RCW
19.85.025(3) as the rules relate only to internal governmental operations that are not subject to violation by a nongovernment party.
December 21, 2018
Roselyn Marcus
Assistant Director of
Legal and Legislative Affairs
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 18-17-130, filed 8/20/18, effective 9/21/18)
WAC 357-31-395What definitions apply to shared leave?
(1) As defined in RCW
41.04.655, "employee" means any employee of the state, including employees of school districts and educational service districts, who are entitled to accrue sick leave or vacation leave and for whom accurate leave records are maintained.
(2) "Employee's relative" normally must be limited to the employee's spouse, registered domestic partner, child, grandchild, sibling, grandparent, or parent.
(3) "Parental leave" means leave to bond and care for a newborn child after birth or to bond and care for a child after placement for adoption or foster care, for a period of up to sixteen weeks after the birth or placement.
(4) "Pregnancy disability" means a pregnancy-related medical condition or miscarriage.
(5) "Severe" or "extraordinary" condition is defined as serious, extreme or life threatening.
(6) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty including state-ordered active duty and a period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty.
(7) "Uniformed services" means the armed forces, the army national guard, and the air national guard of any state, territory, commonwealth, possession, or district when engaged in active duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time national guard duty, or state active duty, the commissioned corps of the public health service, the coast guard and any other category of persons designated by the President of the United States in time of war or national emergency.