PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
(Professional Athletics)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Boxing, chapter 36-12 WAC, wrestling, chapter 36-13 WAC and martial arts, chapter 36-14 WAC, rules update to the Professional Boxing, Martial Arts and Wrestling Act, chapter 67.08 RCW.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 67.08.017(1).
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The professional athletics program regulates boxing, wrestling and martial arts events. To insure the health, safety and welfare of the participants, a rules review is in order.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Michael Schneider, Deputy Administrator, P.O. Box 9649, Olympia, WA 98507-9649, phone (360) 753-3713, fax (360) 664-2550.
December 7, 1999
Michael Schneider
Deputy Administrator