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 state institute for public policy to evaluate the effectiveness of this act on community safety and youth rehabilitation and assess the benefits and costs associated with the law.