AN ACT
Relating to sentences for additional crimes by felons; amending RCW 9.94A.200
and 9.94A.400; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
9.94A.200 and 1989 c 252 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) If
an offender violates any condition or requirement of a sentence, the court may
modify its order of judgment and sentence and impose further punishment in
accordance with this section.
(2) In
cases where conditions from a second or later sentence of community supervision
begin prior to the term of the second or later sentence, the court shall treat
a violation of such conditions as a violation of the sentence of community
supervision currently being served.
(3)
If an offender fails to comply with any of the requirements or conditions of a
sentence the following provisions apply:
(a)
The court, upon the motion of the state, or upon its own motion, shall require
the offender to show cause why the offender should not be punished for the
noncompliance. The court may issue a summons or a warrant of arrest for the
offender's appearance;
(b)
The state has the burden of showing noncompliance by a preponderance of the
evidence. If the court finds that the violation has occurred, it may order the
offender to be confined for a period not to exceed sixty days for each
violation, and may (i) convert a term of partial confinement to total
confinement, (ii) convert community service obligation to total or partial
confinement, or (iii) convert monetary obligations, except restitution and the
crime victim penalty assessment, to community service hours at the rate of the
state minimum wage as established in RCW 49.46.020 for each hour of community
service. Any time served in confinement awaiting a hearing on noncompliance
shall be credited against any confinement order by the court; and
(c) If
the court finds that the violation was not willful, the court may modify its
previous order regarding payment of legal financial obligations and regarding
community service obligations.
(((3)))
(4) Nothing in this section prohibits the filing of escape charges if
appropriate.
Sec.
2. RCW
9.94A.400 and 1990 c 3 s 704 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a)
Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, whenever a person is to be
sentenced for two or more current offenses, the sentence range for each current
offense shall be determined by using all other current and prior convictions as
if they were prior convictions for the purpose of the offender score:
PROVIDED, That if the court enters a finding that some or all of the current
offenses encompass the same criminal conduct then those current offenses shall
be counted as one crime. Sentences imposed under this subsection shall be
served concurrently. Consecutive sentences may only be imposed under the
exceptional sentence provisions of RCW 9.94A.120 and 9.94A.390(2)(f) or any
other provision of RCW 9.94A.390. "Same criminal conduct," as used
in this subsection, means two or more crimes that require the same criminal
intent, are committed at the same time and place, and involve the same victim.
This definition does not apply in cases involving vehicular assault or
vehicular homicide if the victims occupied the same vehicle. However, the
sentencing judge may consider multiple victims in such instances as an
aggravating circumstance under RCW 9.94A.390.
(b)
Whenever a person is convicted of two or more serious violent offenses, as
defined in RCW 9.94A.030, arising from separate and distinct criminal conduct,
the sentence range for the offense with the highest seriousness level under RCW
9.94A.320 shall be determined using the offender's prior convictions and other
current convictions that are not serious violent offenses in the offender score
and the sentence range for other serious violent offenses shall be determined
by using an offender score of zero. The sentence range for any offenses that
are not serious violent offenses shall be determined according to (a) of this
subsection. All sentences imposed under (b) of this subsection shall be served
consecutively to each other and concurrently with sentences imposed under (a)
of this subsection.
(2)(a)
Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, whenever a person while under
sentence of felony commits another felony and is sentenced to another term of
confinement, the latter term shall not begin until expiration of all prior
terms.
(b)
Whenever a second or later felony conviction results in community supervision
with conditions not currently in effect, under the prior sentence or sentences
of community supervision the court may require that the conditions of community
supervision contained in the second or later sentence begin during the
immediate term of community supervision and continue throughout the duration of
the consecutive term of community supervision.
(3)
Subject to subsections (1) and (2) of this section, whenever a person is
sentenced for a felony that was committed while the person was not under
sentence of a felony, the sentence shall run concurrently with any felony
sentence which has been imposed by any court in this or another state or by a
federal court subsequent to the commission of the crime being sentenced unless
the court pronouncing the current sentence expressly orders that they be served
consecutively.
(4)
Whenever any person granted probation under RCW 9.95.210 or 9.92.060, or both,
has the probationary sentence revoked and a prison sentence imposed, that
sentence shall run consecutively to any sentence imposed pursuant to this
chapter, unless the court pronouncing the subsequent sentence expressly orders
that they be served concurrently.
(5)
However, in the case of consecutive sentences, all periods of total confinement
shall be served before any partial confinement, community service, community
supervision, or any other requirement or conditions of any of the sentences.
Except for exceptional sentences as authorized under RCW 9.94A.120(2), if two
or more sentences that run consecutively include periods of community
supervision, the aggregate of the community supervision period shall not exceed
twenty-four months.
