Requires 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.

Directs the department to submit the operational requirements for the facilities on the list to the office of financial management and the counties on the list.

Provides that a county, and any county designated by the department within a rural multicounty geographic area, that is included on the list required under this act planning under RCW 36.70A.040 to, in cooperation with its cities, allow the siting of each projected community facility on the list within the county using its process for siting essential public facilities under RCW 36.70A.200 and this act. The process shall allow the siting of a facility within twelve months of receiving notice that the county has been included on the list.

Requires the department to prepare a projected list of counties and rural multicounty geographic areas in which work release 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 work release facilities among counties. The department shall give great weight to the following factors in determining equitable distribution: (1) The locations of existing residential facilities owned or operated by, or operated under contract with, the department in each county;

(2) The number and proportion of adult offenders sentenced to the custody or supervision of the department by the courts of the county or rural multicounty geographic area; and

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

Directs the department to submit, along with the list required under this act, the operational requirements for the facilities on the list to the office of financial management and the counties on the list.

Provides that, within twelve months of receiving 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, each county, in cooperation with the cities located in whole or in part within the county, and each city planning under RCW 36.70A.040 shall, when it next amends its comprehensive plan, but in no case later than the deadline specified in RCW 36.70A.130, establish a process, or amend its existing process, for identifying and siting essential public facilities, and adopt or amend its development regulations as necessary to provide for the siting of community facilities as defined in RCW 72.05.020 and work release and other facilities operated by or under contract with the department of corrections. When siting a community facility under chapter 72.05 RCW or a work release facility under chapter 72.65 RCW, a county or city shall follow, in addition to requirements of the process for siting essential public facilities established under this provision, the requirements established in this act.