CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1388

 

 

                   Chapter 348, Laws of 1997

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

WORK RELEASE PROGRAM SITING

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House April 26, 1997

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 24, 1997

  Yeas 38   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1388  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved May 13, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.    

                                FILED          

 

 

             May 13, 1997 - 2:33 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1388

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Conway, Ballasiotes, Sullivan, Dickerson, Cairnes, Quall, Robertson, Wood, Blalock, O'Brien, Scott, Wensman, Cooper, Costa and Ogden

 

Read first time 01/24/97.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

 

 

Requiring that private organizations that contract with the department to operate work release facilities go through the siting process.   


    AN ACT Relating to siting of work release programs; and amending RCW 72.65.220.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 72.65.220 and 1994 c 271 s 1001 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The department or a private or public entity under contract with the department may establish or relocate for the operation of a work release or other community-based facility only after public notifications and local public meetings have been completed consistent with this section.

    (2) The department and other state agencies ((that have responsibility)) responsible for siting ((the department's)) department-owned, operated, or contracted facilities shall establish a process for early and continuous public participation in establishing or relocating work release or other community-based facilities.  This process shall include public meetings in the local communities affected, opportunities for written and oral comments, and wide dissemination of proposals and alternatives((.

    (2) The department may establish or relocate a work release or other community-based facility only after holding local public meetings and providing public notification to local communities consistent with this chapter.

    (3))), including at least the following:

    (a) When the department or a private or public entity under contract with the department has selected three or fewer sites for final consideration ((for site selection)) of a department-owned, operated, or contracted work release or other community-based facility, the department or contracting organization shall make public notification ((shall be given)) and conduct public hearings ((shall be held)) in the ((final three or fewer)) local communities ((where the siting is proposed)) of the final three or fewer proposed sites.  ((Additional notification and a)) An additional public hearing after public notification shall also be conducted in the local community selected as the final proposed site((, prior to completion of the siting process.  All hearings and notifications shall be consistent with this chapter)).

    (((4) Throughout this process the department shall provide notification to)) (b) Notifications required under this section shall be provided to the following:

    (i) All newspapers of general circulation in the local area and all local radio stations, television stations, and cable networks((.));

    (((5) Notice shall also be provided to)) (ii) Appropriate school districts, private schools, kindergartens, city and county libraries, and all other local government offices within a one-half mile radius of the proposed ((facility.)) site or sites;

    (((6) In addition, the department shall also provide notice to)) (iii) The local chamber of commerce, local economic development agencies, and any other local organizations that request such notification from the department((.)); and

    (((7) Notification in writing shall be provided to)) (iv) In writing to all residents and/or property owners within a one-half mile radius of the proposed site or sites.

    (3) When the department contracts for the operation of a work release or other community-based facility that is not owned or operated by the department, the department shall require as part of its contract that the contracting entity comply with all the public notification and public hearing requirements as provided in this section for each located and relocated work release or other community-based facility.


    Passed the House April 26, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 24, 1997.

Approved by the Governor May 13, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 13, 1997.