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                          HOUSE BILL 2113

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Elliot, Mastin, Lisk, Appelwick, Sheldon, Kremen, Ballasiotes, Reams, Jacobsen, Goldsmith, Carrell, Foreman, Patterson, Regala, L. Thomas, Benton, Mitchell, Sheahan, Hickel, Backlund, Sherstad and McMahan

Read first time 05/25/95.  Referred to Committee on .

Providing procedures for locating juvenile detention facilities.

    AN ACT Relating to siting of juvenile detention and group home facilities; adding a new section to chapter 13.40 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 13.40 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The department may not establish or relocate a juvenile detention or group home facility in a new location until after the department holds a minimum of two public hearings.

    (2) The department of community, trade, and economic development shall establish procedures providing for early and continuous public participation in the development of juvenile detention and group home facility placement plans.  The procedures must provide, with particular emphasis on the communities surrounding the proposed siting, for broad dissemination of proposals and alternatives, opportunity for written comments, public meetings after effective notice, provision for open discussion, communication programs, information services, and consideration of and response to public comments.

    (3) As used in this section, "group home" means a state-operated or privately contracted group home facility that provides custody and treatment for committed male and female juvenile offenders.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1995.

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