FINAL BILL REPORT

                 SHB 2263

                     Synopsis as Enacted

                          C 7 L 92

Brief Description:  Correcting references to state correctional facilities.

By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Hargrove, Winsley, Prentice, H. Myers, Ludwig, Tate, Morris, Riley, Leonard and Orr; by request of Department of Corrections).

House Committee on Human Services

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

Background:  State statutes referencing state correctional facilities and the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, are inaccurate and outdated.  For example, the statutes refer to the state penitentiary, use a restricted definition of state correctional institutions that lists each correctional facility by name, use masculine only gender references, and refer to the no longer existing Board of Prison Terms and Paroles.

Summary:  References to correctional facilities by the title of the facility in the definition of state correctional institutions and references to "the state penitentiary" are replaced with references to "a/the state correctional facility."  All references to the "Board of Prison Terms and Parole" are eliminated and replaced with references to the "Indeterminate Sentence Review Board."  Other technical changes are made.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  94   0

Senate 43   0

Effective:    June 11, 1992