WAC Sections | Subject Matter | CR-101 Filings | CR-102 or CR-105 Filings | CR-103E Filings |
Chapter 110-01 | Public Disclosure: Anticipated amendments will better align rules with current public disclosure procedures. | |||
Chapters 110-04 and 110-06 | Background Checks: Amending rules to revise criminal convictions that may disqualify an individual from being licensed, contracted, certified, or authorized to have unsupervised access to children, or trigger further review to determine the applicant's character, suitability, and competence to have unsupervised access to children. Rule making will also implement chapter 9.97 RCW to explain when certificates of restoration of opportunity (CROP) will be included in criminal history record reports, qualifying letters, or other assessments during a background check, and when CROP will not be considered during a background check. | WSR 19-20-096 Filed 10/1/19 | ||
Chapter 110-15 | Working Connections and Seasonal Child Care: Updating 110-15 WAC to include the collective bargaining agreements entered into with represented child care providers: Specifically, establishing monthly rate authorizations and increasing base rates for family home child cares, increasing base rates and implementing field trip reimbursements for family, friend, and neighbor license-exempt providers, and adjusting the time period in which family home child cares must produce requested records and correct payments. | WSR 21-15-028 Filed 7/12/21 | WSR 21-14-039 Filed 6/30/21 | |
110-15-0005, 110-15-0075, and 110-15-0190 | Working Connections and Seasonal Child Care: Amendments are planned to implement chapter 330, Laws of 2020, which grants eligibility to certain teen parents enrolled in high school or an equivalency program. | Anticipated | ||
110-15-0045 | Working Connections Child Care: Amending WAC 110-15-0045 to implement chapter 199, Laws of 2021, which relieves certain student participants from the work component. | WSR 15-21-028 Filed 7/12/21 | ||
110-15-4500 through 110-15-4580 | Working Connections and Seasonal Child Care: Amending rules to better explain when and for whom the department provides child care, the child care rates that may be paid, and the tax responsibility for those payments. | WSR 21-11-115 Filed 5/19/21 | ||
110-15-0280 | Working Connections and Seasonal Child Care: Amending WAC to align with DCYF's administrative hearing rules chapter 110-03 WAC. | WSR 21-15-075 Filed 7/16/21 | ||
Chapters 110-16 and 110-06 | Licensing—License—Exempt Child Care: Amendments to ensure license-exempt family, friends, and neighbors child care providers fully comply with child care and development fund background checks, as well as, health and safety requirements. | WSR 20-14-004 Filed 6/17/20 | WSR 21-12-007 Filed 5/19/21 | WSR 21-15-022 Filed 7/12/21 |
Chapters 110-145, 110-147, and 110-148 | Licensing: Amending Title 110 WAC to better address the needs of and promote culturally relevant service delivery to LGBTQ+ identifying children and youth served by the department. | WSR 20-10-082 Filed 5/4/20 | ||
110-145-1425, 110-145-1430, 110-145-1440, 110-145-1445, 110-145-1450, 110-145-1460, 110-145-1475, 110-145-1490, and 110-145-1725 | Licensing—Group Care: At the request of stakeholders, DCYF is reviewing education and professional development required for certain staff positions within licensed programs. | WSR 21-01-032 Filed 12/7/20 | ||
Chapter 110-147 | Licensing Requirements for Child Placing Agency and Adoption Services: Planned amendments will require use of an electronic management system currently in development. | Anticipated | ||
Title 110 WAC | Licensing—Early Learning/Child Care: New rules are anticipated to implement chapter 304, Laws of 2021, which authorizes the department to issue child-specific foster care licenses and license outdoor nature-based child cares, places a time-specific moratorium on the department's collection of child care licensing fees, requires background check applications to be uploaded to the department's online workforce registry (MERIT), and modifies the department's internal child care review process. | WSR 21-12-013 Filed 5/120/21 [5/20/21] | ||
Chapter 110-300 | Licensing—Early Learning/Child Care: DCYF is considering amendments intended to better clarify emergency exit requirements and update immunization requirements necessary to align chapter 110-300 WAC with the department of health's rules. | WSR 21-15-060 Filed 2/16/21 | ||
Title 110 WAC | Juvenile Rehabilitation: DCYF expects to develop rules to implement E2SHB 1186 (2021), which created a community transition services program for youth and young adults in juvenile rehabilitation residential facilities. | WSR 21-13-019 Filed 6/21/21 | ||
Title 110 WAC | Relative Guardianship Assistance: Establishing new rules for eligibility, application, and program standards consistent with 42 U.S.C. 673 to ensure relative guardianship subsidy payments comply with guidelines for expenditure of federal grant monies. Rules will clarify the application process, program standards, and the process for adjudicating denied applications. | WSR 20-15-092 Filed 7/15/2020 | ||
Title 110 WAC | COVID-19: The department anticipates emergency rule making in response to COVID-19 developments and to implement related governor's proclamations. | |||
Title 110 WAC | Technical corrections are necessary following the establishment DCYF following the mergers of department of social and health services children's and juvenile rehabilitation administrations and the department of early learning. | Anticipated |