Subject of Possible Rule Making: Repealing current student code of conduct, WAC 132P-33-010, 132P-33-020, 132P-33-030, 132P-33-065, 132P-33-400, 132P-33-410, 132P-33-420, 132P-33-430, 132P-33-440, 132P-33-445, 132P-33-460, 132P-33-470, 132P-33-480, 132P-33-490, 132P-33-500, 132P-33-510, 132P-33-520 and 132P-33-540; and updating to new Supplemental Title IX student conduct procedures, WAC 132P-121-010, 132P-121-020, 132P-121-030, 132P-121-065, 132P-121-440, 132P-121-445, 132P-121-448, 132P-121-460, 132P-121-462, 132P-121-465, 132P-121-470, 132P-121-480, 132P-121-490, 132P-121-500, 132P-121-510, 132P-121-520, and 132P-121-540.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: United States Department of Education released a final rule on Title IX, for higher education insitutions to comply with; RCW 28B.50.140(7).

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Allow the Yakima Valley College to be in compliance with the new Title IX requirements in the student code of conduct.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: United States Department of Education and the Office of Civil Rights.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Leslie Blackaby, P.O. Box 22520, Yakima, WA 98902, phone 509-574-6867, email lblackaby@yvcc.edu, website https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2024/16/24-16-136.htm[l]; or Alma Ramirez, P.O. Box 22520, Yakima, WA 98902, phone 509-574-4671, email aramirez@yvcc.edu.