WSR 21-08-005
PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
[Filed March 24, 2021, 2:52 p.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 137-56 WAC.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 72.01.090.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Establish current and relevant rule violations with progressive discipline for partial confinement settings under the jurisdiction of the department. This process includes adding graduated reentry - electronic home monitoring, work/training release facilities and the community parenting alternative - FOSA.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Negotiated rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Carrie Trogdon-Oster, Operations Administrator, Department of Corrections, Reentry Division, 1550 4th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134, phone 253-377-7636, email cvtrogdonoster@doc1.wa.gov; or Vadim Chebotar, Senior Contracts Attorney, Department of Corrections, Contracts and Legal Affairs, P.O. Box 41114, Tumwater, WA 98504, phone 253-261-1465, email Vadim.chebotar@doc.wa.gov, website www.doc.wa.gov.
March 24, 2021
Stephen Sinclair
Secretary