BILL REQ. #:  S-0693.1 

Read first time 01/22/2003.   Referred to Committee on Children & Family Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to the provision of law enforcement services by a city or town to state hospitals; and amending RCW 72.72.020 and 72.72.030.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 72.72.020 and 1983 c 279 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
     (1) "Political subdivisions" means counties, cities, and towns.
     (2) "Institution" means any state institution for the confinement of adult offenders committed pursuant to chapters 10.64, 10.77, and 71.06 RCW or juvenile offenders committed pursuant to chapter 13.40 RCW, or any state hospital pursuant to RCW 70.124.020.

Sec. 2   RCW 72.72.030 and 1991 sp.s. c 13 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) There is hereby created, in the state treasury, an institutional impact account. The secretary of social and health services may reimburse political subdivisions for criminal justice costs incurred directly as a result of crimes committed by offenders residing in an institution as defined herein under the jurisdiction of the secretary of social and health services. Such reimbursement shall be made to the extent funds are available from the institutional impact account. Reimbursements shall be limited to law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial, and jail facilities costs which are documented to be strictly related to the criminal activities of the offender.
     (2) The secretary of corrections may reimburse political subdivisions for criminal justice costs incurred directly as a result of crimes committed by offenders residing in an institution as defined herein under the jurisdiction of the secretary of corrections. Such reimbursement shall be made to the extent funds are available from the institutional impact account. Reimbursements shall be limited to law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial, and jail facilities costs which are documented to be strictly related to the criminal activities of the offender.
     (3) The secretary of social and health services shall reimburse any city or town in which there is located a state hospital for the costs of providing any law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial, and judicial facilities for criminal activities related to the state hospital. Reimbursement shall be based in part on the costs for providing daily twenty-four-hour law enforcement coverage for the hospital. This cost shall be determined by the prevailing cost for law enforcement services for the local jurisdiction as well as by local standards for providing daily twenty-four-hour law enforcement coverage in other parts of the city or town.