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                         SENATE BILL 5845

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Hargrove and Long

Read first time 02/11/1999.  Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

Specifying when the department of social and health services is responsible for supervision of juvenile offenders serving terms of confinement.

    AN ACT Relating to supervision of juvenile offenders serving terms of confinement; and amending RCW 13.40.185.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 13.40.185 and 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 524 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Any term of confinement imposed for an offense which exceeds ((thirty)) twenty days shall be served under the supervision of the department.  If the period of confinement imposed for more than one offense exceeds ((thirty)) twenty days but the term imposed for each offense is less than ((thirty)) twenty days, the confinement may, in the discretion of the court, be served in a juvenile facility operated by or pursuant to a contract with the state or a county.

    (2) Whenever a juvenile is confined in a detention facility or is committed to the department, the court may not directly order a juvenile into a particular county or state facility.  The juvenile court administrator and the secretary, assistant secretary, or the secretary's designee, as appropriate, has the sole discretion to determine in which facility a juvenile should be confined or committed.  The counties may operate a variety of detention facilities as determined by the county legislative authority subject to available funds.

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