WSR 19-21-022

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING

[Filed October 7, 2019, 7:31 a.m., effective November 12, 2019]

Effective Date of Rule: November 12, 2019.

Purpose: This proposal will allow Washington state residents to select a nonbinary sex designation for driver licenses, instruction permits or identification cards.

Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: New WAC 308-104-0150 Changing sex designation on a driver's license, instruction permit, or identification card.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 46.01.110.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 19-14-105 on July 2, 2019.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: October 7, 2019.

Damon Monroe

Agency Rules Coordinator

NEW SECTION

WAC 308-104-0150Changing sex designation on a driver's license, instruction permit, or identification card.

(1) Persons may change the sex designation on a driver's license, instruction permit, or identification card by means of completing a sex designation change application signed under penalty of perjury pursuant to chapter 9A.72 RCW.

(2) For the purposes of this section, "X" means a sex that is not exclusively male or female.