WSR 22-01-036
PERMANENT RULES
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR
STANDARDS BOARD
[Filed December 6, 2021, 2:49 p.m., effective January 6, 2022]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The certificate fee of $5.00 for each year of validity has remained the same since the professional educator standards board began setting certificate fees in 2005. This rule change would increase the certificate fee by one dollar to $6.00 for each year of validity. In the past 16 years while certificate fees have remained the same, all other costs have increased. This includes increased costs for work of the board, board meetings, staff, internal and external meetings, travel, and goods and services.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 181-79A-130.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 28A.410 RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 21-19-134 on November 18 [September 21], 2021.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: November 18, 2021.
Sophia Keskey
Rules Coordinator
OTS-3274.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 21-15-085, filed 7/16/21, effective 8/16/21)
WAC 181-79A-130((Fees for certificates.))Certificate fees.
(1) Under provisions of RCW 28A.410.060, 28A.410.062, and 28A.415.010, the fee for certificates that are valid for more than one year, issued ((by))under the authority of the state of Washington and authorizing the holder to serve in the common schools of the state, shall be as follows:
(a) For the purposes of this section only, the first issue of the residency certificate shall be calculated as if it had seven years of validity, with a ((five-dollar))six-dollar certificate fee for each year of validity;
(b) The continuing certificate, ((seventy dollars))$70.00;
(c) Renewal of a continuing certificate, one dollar;
(d) The reinstatement, additional endorsement, or substitute certificate, ((fifteen dollars))$30.00;
(e) The first peoples' language, culture, and oral tribal traditions teacher certificate, ((twenty-five dollars))six dollars for each year of validity;
(f) All career and technical education certificates, one dollar;
(g) Any other certificate or credential or any renewal or reissuance thereof, ((five))six dollars for each year of validity; and
(h) ((A))The one-time late fee for ((a))the renewed initial or continuing certificate issued under the provisions of WAC 181-79A-123 (7), (8), or (9), for those whose initial certificate ((had))have already expired, shall be ((one hundred dollars))$100.00.
(2) The fee for any other certificate or credential, with a validity period of one year or less, or for any renewal or reissuance thereof, issued ((by))under the authority of the state of Washington and authorizing the holder to serve in the common schools of the state, shall be ((five))six dollars.
(3) Officials authorized to collect certificate fees are educational service district superintendents, deans and directors of education at colleges and universities, or their designees. Sovereign tribal governments may collect certificate fees for first peoples' language, culture, and oral tribal traditions certificates. The fee must accompany the application for a certificate and shall be transmitted by the receiving district, college or university, sovereign tribal government, or program unit designee at least quarterly to the educational service district within which the application is filed for disposition in accordance with provisions of RCW 28A.410.060 or to the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
(4) Beginning September 1, 2013, the office of the superintendent of public instruction may collect certificate fees.
(5) The fee shall not be refunded unless the application is withdrawn before it is finally considered (i.e., the issuance of a certificate or a written communication denying such issuance) by the superintendent of public instruction or their designee.
(6) The professional educator standards board will review certificate fees every two years to assure the fee is set at a sufficient level for the use of certificate fees under WAC 181-79A-131.