SB 5244 - DIGEST

Requires the court, when a person is convicted of a qualifying domestic violence offense, to enter an order designating the person a serious domestic violence offender and requiring the person to appear on the serious domestic violence offender registry.

Requires the Washington state patrol to: (1) Maintain a central registry of serious domestic violence offenders;

(2) Upon request of a person who appears on the registry, investigate whether the person's registration period has ended by operation of law;

(3) Notify registered serious domestic violence offenders of any changes to the registration requirements; and

(4) Notify an offender included on the registry for one or more offenses committed exclusively when the offender was a juvenile of his or her ability to petition for relief from registration.