WSR 24-04-027
AGENDA
DEPARTMENT OF
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
[Filed January 29, 2024, 3:52 p.m.]
Following is the department of children, youth, and families (DCYF) semi-annual rule-making agenda for January 1 through June 30, 2024. This agenda will be published in the Washington State Register as required in RCW 34.05.314 and distributed to interested parties. It is also available on the DCYF rule-making web page.
This agenda represents DCYF rule making that is anticipated or currently under development. There may be additional rule-making activities needed to implement legislative actions, comply with federal mandates, or meet unforeseen circumstances.
Semi-Annual Rule-Making Agenda
January 1 – June 30, 2024
WAC Sections
Subject Matter
CR-101 Filings
CR-102 or CR-105 Filings
CR-103E Filings
110-15-0005
110-15-0015
110-15-0024
110-15-0045
110-15-0075
Working Connections and Seasonal Child Care (WCCC): Expanding eligibility to people working in licensed child care centers and licensed family homes, specialty and therapeutic court participants, and undocumented children. This rule making will also establish eligibility for families with a parent participating in a state-registered apprenticeship with income less than 85 percent of the state median income who, within the last year, were approved for WCCC.
23-19-077
Filed
9/19/23
 
24-02-064
Filed 12/29/23
Chapter 110-16
Family, Friends, and Neighbors (FFN): Clarify requirements for FFN providers providing care for children getting services through the working connections child care subsidy program.
Anticipated
 
 
Chapter 110-85
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.
20-15-092
Filed
7/15/20
 
 
Chapter 110-145
Group Care: Amending group care rules to be more developmentally and culturally appropriate and flexible to meet individual youth's needs. Additionally, the project will allow DCYF to best determine how these licensing WAC can better accommodate the most relevant and beneficial programming and settings as possible, all while maintaining minimum health and safety standards. WAC changes will be made using negotiated rule making.
Exempt
Anticipating CR-105
 
Chapter 110-148
Chapter 110-300
Licensing: Allowing a family home to be licensed for both foster care and child care.
22-09-054
Filed
4/18/22
 
 
110-148-1326
Foster Care Licensing: Amending rules to give DCYF the authority to issue child-specific licenses to an Indian child's family or extended family member with children in the custody of an Indian tribe or the tribe's child placing agency, per SB 5683.
23-18-013
Filed
8/24/23
 
 
Chapter 110-300 Chapter 110-301
Child Care and Early Learning Programs: Rule making as a result of a petition for training requirements for health and safety, such as CPR and first aid.
23-17-105
Filed
8/16/23
 
 
110-425-0030
110-425-0080
Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP): Creating an agreed-upon definition of an Indian child that will be used for ECEAP enrollment.
Anticipated
 
 
Brenda Villarreal
Rules Coordinator