Atexas college student at a local university stops attending class and the professor drops the student from the class for excessive absences. as required by state law, the student receives a "w" for the course and must retake the class. this example illustrates which stage of the policy making process?

Awaiver of the requirement for documentation of informed consent may be granted when: the investigator has no convenient place to store signed consent forms separate from the research datathe only record linking the subject and the research is the consent document and the principal risk is a breach of confidentiality.potential subjects might find some of the research questions embarrassing, personal, or intrusivethe subjects are literate in their own language; however, they do not read, write, or speak english