HB 1733-S - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

Directs the department to prepare a projected list of counties and rural multicounty geographic areas in which community facilities need to be sited during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, and every biennium thereafter starting with the biennium beginning July 1, 2008, and transmit the list to the office of financial management and the counties on the list. The list may be updated as needed. In preparing the list, the department shall make substantial efforts to provide for the equitable distribution of community facilities among counties. The department shall give great weight to the following factors in determining equitable distribution: (1) The locations of existing community facilities owned or operated by, or operated under contract with, the department in each county;

(2) The number and proportion of juvenile offenders committed to the department residing in the county or rural multicounty geographic area; and

(3) The number of juvenile registered sex offenders classified as level II or III and juvenile sex offenders registered as homeless per thousand persons residing in the county.

Provides that, after twelve months have passed since the city or county receives notice that the county has been included on the list of projected potential sites for a work release facility or community facility for juvenile offenders, and the county and cities within have failed to establish a process for siting a work release facility or community facility for juvenile offenders, notwithstanding RCW 36.70A.103 or any other law, this act preempts and supersedes local plans, development regulations, permitting requirements, inspection requirements, and all other laws as necessary to enable the department of corrections to site, construct, renovate, occupy, and operate a work release facility or to enable the department of social and health services to operate a community facility for juvenile offenders within the county.