Basic Filing Procedures

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Basic Filing Procedures

• Code Revisers Office

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Rule-making Processes

• Permanent Process
• 3 Steps
• Expedited Permanent Process
• 2 Steps
• Emergency Process
• 1 Step

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Flow Chart of the Rule-making Processes
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The Basic Filing Procedures
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PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 1
• File Preproposal Statement of Inquiry on a CR-101
  form.
• No text needed.
• Needs to be published 30 days before moving to
  Step 2.

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PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 2
• File CR-102 with proposed text attached (shown in
  bill drafting style with ((strike through)) and
  underscoring).
• Must be published 20 days before a public hearing
  can be held and adoption can take place.

• Front

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PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 2 cont.
• Document compliance with the Regulatory Fairness
  Act by attaching a Small Business Economic Impact
  Statement (if necessary).
• If a cost-benefit analysis is necessary, provide
  information on how the public can obtain a copy.

• Back

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PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 3
• Adoption and filing cannot take place before the
  stated Date of Adoption on the CR-102.
• File CR-103 with text attached in bill drafting
  style.

• Front

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PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 3 cont.
• Permanent rules become effective 31 days after
  filing with the Code Revisers Office (there are
  exceptions).
• Sections will be codified into the WAC base.

• Back

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EXPEDITED PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 1
• File CR-105 form with proposed text attached in
  bill drafting format.
• Must wait 45 days from publication of the CR-105
  before moving to Step 2.

• Front

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EXPEDITED PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 1 cont.
• If any objection to the CR-105 is filed with
  agency and not withdrawn, the CR-105 becomes the
  equivalent of the CR-101 and a CR-102 may be
  filed to have a hearing.

• Back

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EXPEDITED PERMANENT PROCESS

• Step 2
• If there have been no objections, the agency
  would complete a CR-103 form (just like the
  regular permanent process), which would go into
  effect 31-days after filing with the Code
  Revisers Office.

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EMERGENCY PROCESS

• Only one step
• File CR-103 (with the emergency portions
  completed) with text attached done in bill
  drafting style.
• Emergency is in effect 120-days from filing.

• Front

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EMERGENCY PROCESS

• An emergency can be filed a second time, if the
  agency is in the process of permanently adopting
  the rules.

• Back

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For Further InformationPlease Contact

• For information about the rules process
• Kerry Radcliff
• [phone]
• Radcliff.Kerry_at_leg.wa.gov

• For information about the computer technology
• John Shiflett
• [phone]
• Shiflett.John_at_leg.wa.gov