PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Amendment to WAC 446-20-600 Fees.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 10.97.100, 43.43.742.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Increase the fees charged to the general public and private entities conducting criminal history background checks. The last fee study for background checks was conducted in 1993. Since then, the costs associated with conducting background checks have increased. The ways to obtain criminal history have expanded from mailed inquiries to include walk-in customers and Internet access.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Office of Financial Management.
Process for Developing New Rule: The identification and criminal history section reviewed this WAC to ensure the language was current and standard. Contact was made with WSP budget and fiscal services.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Mr. Benjamin Carruth, Washington State Patrol, P.O. Box 42633, Olympia, WA 98504-2633, phone (360) 570-5230, fax (360) 570-5274.
June 18, 2004
Lowell Porter
Chief