BILL REQ. #:  S-4153.1 

Read first time 01/14/08.   Referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

     AN ACT Relating to the conversion of existing facilities to house offenders violating community supervision; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   (1) The department of corrections shall conduct an analysis of the necessary capacity throughout the state to appropriately confine offenders who violate community supervision. The analysis must include, but is not limited to:
     (a) Recommended development or conversion of facilities to decrease reliance on the availability of local correctional facilities to house violators including estimated costs; and
     (b) A predesign analysis for a facility to provide inpatient treatment, therapies, and counseling. In conducting the predesign analysis, the department shall assume the facility will be colocated with an existing department of corrections center in western Washington and house approximately two hundred violators.
     (2) The department shall report the results of its analysis to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature by November 15, 2008.
     (3) To the extent possible within existing funds, the department is authorized to proceed with the conversion of existing facilities that are appropriate to house violators.