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                         SENATE BILL 5658

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Palmer, Swecker, Deccio, Sellar, Snyder, Hale, Haugen, Johnson, Sutherland, Wood, Schow and Bauer

Read first time 01/31/95.  Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

Speeding up transfer of felons from jail to prison.

    AN ACT Relating to sentences served by felons in jails; and amending RCW 70.48.240 and 70.48.400.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.48.240 and 1984 c 235 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    A person imprisoned in a jail and sentenced to a state institution for a felony conviction shall be transferred to a state institution before the ((forty-first)) twenty-ninth day from the date of sentencing.

    This section does not apply to persons sentenced for a felony who are held in the facility as a condition of probation or who are specifically sentenced to confinement in the  facility.

    Payment for persons sentenced to state institutions and remaining in a jail from the eighth through the ((fortieth)) twenty-eighth days following sentencing shall be in accordance with the procedure prescribed under this chapter.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 70.48.400 and 1987 c 462 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Persons sentenced to felony terms or a combination of felony and other terms of more than ((three hundred sixty-five)) one hundred eighty days of incarceration shall be committed to state institutions under the authority of the department of corrections.  Persons serving sentences of ((three hundred sixty-five)) one hundred eighty consecutive days or less may be sentenced to a jail as defined in RCW 70.48.020.  All persons convicted of felonies or misdemeanors and sentenced to jail shall be the financial responsibility of the city or county.

(2) Nothing in this section prohibits a governing unit from contracting with the department of corrections under RCW 72.68.040 to provide for the detention in a jail of prisoners convicted of felonies and sentenced to terms of imprisonment in state correctional institutions.

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