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                                  ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 595

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Social & Health Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Tanner, Leonard, P. King and Long)

Read first time 3/6/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to treatment of nonviolent criminal offenders; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The sentencing guidelines commission shall study the feasibility of establishing sentencing guidelines for state misdemeanors and shall recommend mechanisms for implementation.  The commission shall consult with district court judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and representatives of local government as part of this study.  In the study report:

          (1) The commission shall comment on the advisability and use of the following sentence conditions:  Total confinement, partial confinement, community supervision, community services, fines, and other sentence conditions.

          (2) The commission shall comment on the relationship between its recommendations under subsection (1) of this section and correctional facility capacity.

          (3) The commission shall also recommend the appropriate body to administer any state misdemeanor sentencing guidelines.

          The commission shall submit its report to the legislature by January 10, 1986.