FINAL BILL REPORT
SHB 1319



C 201 L 07
Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description: Protecting employees, contract staff, and volunteers of a correctional agency from stalking.

Sponsors: By House Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness (originally sponsored by Representatives O'Brien, Pearson, Dickerson, Blake, Kenney and Ormsby; by request of Department of Corrections).

House Committee on Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections

Background:

A person is guilty of stalking if:

Stalking is generally a gross misdemeanor. However, the crime is a seriousness level V, class C felony if:

Summary:

The group of victims covered under the felony stalking statute is expanded. A person is guilty of felony stalking if the stalker's victim is or was an employee, contract staff person, or volunteer of a correctional agency. "Correctional agency" is defined to include Department of Natural Resources' employees working in a correctional setting, as well as all state and locally operated agencies having direct authority to release an offender serving an incarceration sentence, including, but not limited to: the Department of Corrections, the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, and the Department of Social and Health Services.

Votes on Final Passage:

House   96   0
Senate   48   0   (Senate amended)
House   93   0   (House concurred)

Effective: July 22, 2007