WSR 24-18-124

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

BIG BEND

COMMUNITY COLLEGE

[Filed September 4, 2024, 11:46 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Student code of conduct, chapter 132R-04 WAC.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.50.140(13).

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To bring Big Bend Community College's student conduct code (code) into compliance with a new final rule governing sex discrimination grievance procedures recently adopted by the United States Department of Education and to update the code to ensure its prohibited conduct and procedures adequately protect the interests of the college community and the constitutional and procedural rights of individual students

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

Process for Developing New Rule: Compliance with Department of Education.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Melinda Owens, 7662 Chanute Street N.E., phone 509-793-2001, email melindad@bigbend.edu, website www.bigbend.edu.

September 4, 2024

Melinda Owens

Executive Assistant to the President