FINAL BILL REPORT

SHB 3035

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BYHouse Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Inslee, Baugher, Rayburn, Rector, Haugen, Ebersole and Rasmussen)

Funding the construction and expansion of jail facilities in Yakima County.

House Committe on Appropriations

BACKGROUND:

Because of recent increases in criminal behavior, mostly related to activities involving illegal drugs, the number of persons sentenced to serve time in the Yakima County jail has increased.  The rated capacity of the Yakima County jail is 301 inmates.  Recent daily population counts have exceeded 420, with many potential sentences postponed or abandoned due to the lack of capacity to incarcerate offenders.

Yakima county owns land and a building on which a new facility could be located and has proposed constructing a facility with space for 200 medium and minimum security beds.

SUMMARY:

Two million four hundred thousand dollars is appropriated to the Department of Community Development to provide a grant to Yakima County to design and construct a jail.

The grant is subject to the following limitations:  Yakima County must demonstrate to the Department of Community Development that it can complete construction or expansion of the facility, and the grant may not exceed 80 percent of the total project cost.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

First Special Session

      House 92   0

      Senate    45     1 (Senate amended)

      House             (House refused to concur)

      Senate    36    10 (Senate amended)

      House 94   0 (House concurred)

EFFECTIVE:July 1, 1990