PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 130-14 WAC, Child care facility fund, WAC 130-14-010 - 130-14-070.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 43.31.502 - 43.31.514.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Current rules restrict eligibility for use of child care facility revolving loan fund to employers establishing child care facilities for their employees or to child care businesses contracting with employers to provide child care for employees' children. The Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development is requesting that eligibility restrictions be removed to allow application to the child care facility revolving loan fund by all nonsectarian child care businesses. Other minor rule changes are proposed to bring rules current with loan review and approval process.
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 by mail, telephone, or fax to Gail Gosney, Employer Liaison for Child Care Advantages, Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, 128 10th Avenue S.W., P.O. Box 42525, Olympia, WA 98504-2525, phone (360) 725-4034, fax (360) 586-0873. Notice of proposed rule change will also be sent to the child care facility fund's mailing list.
November 6, 2001
Martha Choe
Director