PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 180-85 WAC, Professional education -- Continuing education requirement.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28A.410.010.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Allow recognition of certain programs and courses as qualifying toward the continuing education requirement of one hundred fifty clock hours every five years.
Process for Developing New Rule: Negotiated rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by sending written comments to Rules Coordinator, State Board of Education, P.O. Box 47206, Olympia, WA 98504-7206, fax (360) 586-2357, TDD (360) 664-3631, ldavis@ospi.wednet.edu. For telephone assistance, contact Larry Davis at (360) 725-6025.
July 8, 2002
Larry Davis