Requires a child to be placed in a facility operated by the department of social and health services instead of the department of corrections, to determine the child's earned release date, when the child is convicted as an adult in the state courts of a crime amounting to a felony and is committed for a term of confinement.

Requires the department of social and health services, if a child's sentence includes a term of community custody, to consult the department of corrections before the child's release to community custody.

Requires the state institute for public policy to assess the impact of this act on community safety and youth rehabilitation.