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WAC Rule Changes

This is a list of rules currently undergoing rulemaking or that have been adopted in the last twelve months.

 

WAC Rule Changes

Notice of Public Hearing

Pursuant to RCW 35.05.320, this email provides notice of proposed rule changes to Cascadia College’s Student Conduct Code, Ch. 132Z WAC. The purpose of the proposed rulemaking is to make the following updates and additions to Cascadia College rules: Add WAC 132Z-120, which brings Cascadia’s student conduct code into compliance with the 2020 Amendments to the Title IX regulations.

These proposed rule updates and additions can be viewed on the Washington State Registrar’s web site HERE. Interested parties are invited to comment on these proposed changes either by submitting written comments or by attending the public hearing.

Public Hearing

  • Tuesday, August 5, 2025
  • 2:00 - 3:00 PM
  • Cascadia College, Tjossem Boardroom CC2-260

Written Comments

  • To sthomas@cascadia.edu
  • Through District interoffice mail to: Cascadia College
  • Or by US postal service.

Written comments will be accepted until 5:00 PM on August 5, 2025. At the Public Hearing an overview of the proposed revisions will be provided by the Hearing Officer prior to taking comments. Following the hearing, the Hearing Officer will prepare a memorandum summarizing the testimony. The President and Board of Trustees will review the memo. Pending action by the Board of Trustees on September 17, 2025, the new rule will become effective on or about October 18, 2025.

Current Rulemaking

Emergency

Effective August 1, the College has executed emergency rulemaking to incorporate changes to the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 132z-115, Student Conduct Code, and to implement 132z-119, Supplemental Sex Discrimination Student Conduct Code and Procedures. The purpose of the rulemaking is to bring the student conduct code into compliance with the 2024 updates to Title IX regulations and Washington’s 2019 anti-hazing legislation.

Permanent

A preproposal statement of rule changes to WAC 132z-115, Student Conduct Code and proposed new rule WAC 132z-119, Supplemental Sex Discrimination Student Conduct Code and Procedures, was filed with the Office of Code Revisor as WSR 24-17-134. The CR 102 Proposed Rulemaking file will be published in WAC 24-22-002.

Contact

For more information please contact:

Gordon Dutrisac
CC Conduct Officer
gdutrisac@cascadia.edu
Susan Thomas
CC Rules Coordinator
sthomas@cascadia.edu
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