2015-S2 AMH .... WALK 038

2SHB 2015 - H AMD

By Representative ____________

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   On page 3, line 7, after "this section" strike "or a community-based alternative under subsection (6) of this section" 

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   Renumber the remaining subsections accordingly

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EFFECT: Eliminates the provisions that:

•             Gave courts the option to sentence an offender to the current prison-based Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative (DOSA) program or the newly created community-based DOSA program.

•             Created a community-based DOSA program where a nonviolent offender with a substance abuse addiction can be sentenced directly to community custody along with supervised inpatient and outpatient treatment;

•             Required the court to schedule a termination hearing for three months prior to the expiration date of the offender's community-based DOSA sentence in order to determine if the offender's community-based sentence should be terminated or modified; and

•             Authorized (but did not require) the costs of the substance abuse examinations, treatment plans, and all community-based treatment to be paid from funds provided to counties from the Criminal Justice Treatment Account, if the county chooses to provide the services directly or by contract.