BILL REQ. #:  S-4596.1 

Read first time 01/25/2006.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to safe residential housing for persons with developmental disabilities; and adding a new section to chapter 43.43 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 43.43 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) For purposes of this section, "community protection program" means a program, established and implemented by the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities, designed to provide safe residential facilities to persons with developmental disabilities who: (a) Have been convicted of, found not guilty by reason of insanity of, or found to be incompetent to stand trial for, a sex offense, as defined by RCW 9.94A.030; or (b) constitute a current risk to others, as determined by a qualified professional.
     (2)(a) A person seeking to work at a facility that is part of the community protection program shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the Washington state patrol to be used to conduct a national criminal history background check.
     (b) The Washington state patrol shall submit the fingerprints of the prospective community protection program worker to the federal bureau of investigation or to such other entity necessary to conduct a national criminal history background check.
     (3) The secretary of the department of social and health services shall determine what criminal history shall prohibit a person from working at a community protection program facility.
     (4) This section applies to all prospective employees, volunteers, and independent contractors who are likely to have unsupervised access to residents of a community protection program facility.