BILL REQ. #:  S-0260.2 

Read first time 01/21/11.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to prohibiting certain registered sex offenders from entering school grounds; amending RCW 9A.44.190, 9A.44.193, and 9A.44.196; reenacting and amending RCW 9.94A.515; adding a new section to chapter 9A.44 RCW; creating a new section; and prescribing penalties.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 9A.44.190 and 2006 c 126 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     As used in this section and RCW 9A.44.193 and 9A.44.196:
     (1) "Covered entity" means any public facility or private facility whose primary purpose, at any time, is to provide for the ((education,)) care((,)) or recreation of a child or children, including but not limited to community and recreational centers, playgrounds, ((schools,)) swimming pools, and state or municipal parks.
     (2) "Child" means a person under the age of eighteen, unless the context clearly indicates that the term is otherwise defined in statute.
     (3) "Public facility" means a facility operated by a unit of local or state government, or by a nonprofit organization.
     (4) "School((s))" means any public ((and)) or private school((s)) that provides for the education or care of a child or children, but does not include home-based instruction as defined in RCW 28A.225.010.
     (5) "Covered offender" means a person required to register under RCW 9A.44.130 who is eighteen years of age or older, who is not under the jurisdiction of the juvenile rehabilitation authority or currently serving a special sex offender disposition alternative((, whose risk level classification has been assessed at a risk level II or a risk level III pursuant to RCW 72.09.345,)) and who, at any time, has been convicted of one or more of the following offenses:
     (a) Rape of a child in the first, second, and third degree; child molestation in the first, second, and third degree; indecent liberties against a child under age fifteen; sexual misconduct with a minor in the first and second degree; incest in the first and second degree; luring with sexual motivation; possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; bringing into the state depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; sexual exploitation of a minor; communicating with a minor for immoral purposes; ((patronizing a juvenile prostitute)) commercial sexual abuse of a minor; promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor; promoting travel for commercial sexual abuse of a minor;
     (b) Any felony in effect at any time prior to March 20, 2006, that is comparable to an offense listed in (a) of this subsection, including, but not limited to, statutory rape in the first and second ((degrees [degree])) degree and carnal knowledge;
     (c) Any felony offense for which:
     (i) There was a finding that the offense was committed with sexual motivation; and
     (ii) The victim of the offense was less than sixteen years of age at the time of the offense;
     (d) An attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit any of the offenses listed in (a) through (c) of this subsection;
     (e) Any conviction from any other jurisdiction which is comparable to any of the offenses listed in (a) through (d) of this subsection.

Sec. 2   RCW 9A.44.193 and 2006 c 126 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1)(a) A covered offender may not knowingly enter the legal premises of a school unless the offender has written permission as provided in subsection (3) of this section;
     (b) If the covered offender enters the legal premises of a school without written permission, the offender may be charged and prosecuted for a felony offense as provided in RCW 9A.44.196;
     (c) This subsection does not apply to a covered offender who is eighteen years of age and is attending or planning to attend the school.
     (2) Except as provided in subsection (1) of this section, a covered offender may not enter the legal premises of a covered entity if an owner, manager, or operator of a covered entity ((may)) orders ((a covered)) the offender from the legal premises of a covered entity as provided under this section. To do this, the owner, manager, or operator of a covered entity must first provide the covered offender, or cause the covered offender to be provided, personal service of a written notice that informs the covered offender that:
     (a) The covered offender must leave the legal premises of the covered entity and may not return without the written permission of the covered entity; and
     (b) If the covered offender refuses to leave the legal premises of the covered entity, or thereafter returns and enters within the legal premises of the covered entity without written permission, the offender may be charged and prosecuted for a felony offense as provided in RCW 9A.44.196.
     (((2))) (3) A school under subsection (1) of this section or a covered entity under subsection (2) of this section may give written permission of entry and use to a covered offender to enter and remain on the legal premises of the covered entity at particular times and for lawful purposes, including, but not limited to, conducting business, voting, or participating in educational or recreational activities. Any written permission of entry and use of the legal premises of a covered entity must be clearly stated in a written document and must be personally served on the covered offender. If the covered offender violates the conditions of entry and use contained in a written document personally served on the offender by the school or covered entity, the covered offender may be charged and prosecuted for a felony offense as provided in RCW 9A.44.196.
     (((3))) (4) An owner, employee, or agent of a school or covered entity shall be immune from civil liability for damages arising from excluding or failing to exclude a covered offender from a covered entity or from imposing or failing to impose conditions of entry and use on a covered offender.
     (((4))) (5) A person provided with written notice from a covered entity under this section may file a petition with the district court alleging that he or she does not meet the definition of "covered offender" in RCW 9A.44.190. The district court must conduct a hearing on the petition within thirty days of the petition being filed. In the hearing on the petition, the person has the burden of proving that he or she is not a covered offender. If the court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the person is not a covered offender, the court shall order the covered entity to rescind the written notice and shall order the covered entity to pay the person's costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.

Sec. 3   RCW 9A.44.196 and 2006 c 126 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) A person is guilty of the crime of criminal trespass against children if he or she:
     (a) Is a covered offender as defined in RCW 9A.44.190; and
     (b)(i) Enters the legal premises of a school without written permission as provided in RCW 9A.44.193;
     (ii) Is personally served with written notice complying with the requirements of RCW 9A.44.193 that excludes the covered offender from the legal premises of the covered entity and remains upon or reenters the legal premises of the covered entity; or
     (((ii))) (iii) Is personally served with written notice complying with the requirements of RCW 9A.44.193 that imposes conditions of entry and use on the covered offender and violates the conditions of entry and use.
     (2) Criminal trespass against children is a class C felony.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4   A new section is added to chapter 9A.44 RCW to read as follows:
     A state or local agency that has an official designated by the agency for the purpose of registering offenders at the time of release under RCW 9A.44.130 shall inform a covered offender at the time of release of the restrictions from entering school premises as provided in RCW 9A.44.193.

Sec. 5   RCW 9.94A.515 and 2010 c 289 s 11 and 2010 c 227 s 9 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6   The state patrol shall notify registered sex offenders of the requirements of this act as part of its notice to offenders of any change in registration requirements as provided in RCW 9A.44.145.