WSR 14-10-021

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed April 28, 2014, 8:26 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Practice and procedure.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: None.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: These rules were put in place in 1978 and last updated in 1987. Since then there have been many changes to the rule-making process. The changes over the years have placed the petition language into RCW for the entire state.

The proposal is to repeal this chapter as the language is out-of-date and redundant with language already outlined in statute.

Process for Developing New Rule: Agency review.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Melissa Van Gorkom, Washington State Patrol, Government and Media Relations, P.O. Box 42600, Olympia, WA 98504-2600, (360) 596-4017, fax (360) 596-4015, wsprules@wsp.wa.gov.

April 25, 2014

John R. Batiste

Chief