PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Discrimination complaint procedure.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.50.140 and federal Title IX.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Expands existing Bellevue Community College discrimination complaint procedure (WAC 132H-152-135) to pertain to members of the general public who utilize campus facilities.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.
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 contacting Lucy Macneil, Vice-President of Human Resources, Bellevue Community College, 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., Room A101, Bellevue, WA 98007-6484, phone (425) 564-2274, fax (425) 564-3173. Interested parties may attend the All College Council Meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 7, at 2:30 in Room B201 on the Bellevue Community College campus.
January 16, 2002
Elise J. Erickson
Rules Coordinator