PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Office of the Secretary)
(Legislative Relations)
Subject of Possible Rule Making: FBI background checks -- 120 day provisional hire.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: Chapter 43.20A RCW, RCW 43.43.842, 72.05.440, 74.15.030.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Rules are necessary to ensure consistent implementation within divergent DSHS programs. The rules will clarify when an entity, agency, and hiring individual is able to hire employees, contract employees, volunteers, and student interns provisionally for one hundred twenty days while waiting for an FBI result.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: The Washington State Department of Personnel; Washington State Patrol; and the Washington State Department of Health.
Process for Developing New Rule: The process will involve working directly with internal and external stakeholders.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Jackie A. Beery, Policy Manager, Background Check Centralization Project, DSHS, Division of Legislative Relations, P.O. Box 45025, Olympia, WA 98504-5025, (360) 902-7814, beeryja@dshs.wa.gov, (360) 902-7814.
March 16, 2001
Brian Lindgren
for Bonita H. Jacques, Chief
Office of Legal Affairs