5219-S.E AMH MANJ LANG 161

  

ESSB 5219 - H AMD TO APP COMM AMD (H-2186.1/25) 1097

By Representative Manjarrez

NOT ADOPTED 04/11/2025

On page 9, beginning on line 3 of the striking amendment, after "means confinement" strike "((for no more than one year)) up to 18 months" and insert "for no more than one year"

On page 24, beginning on line 13 of the striking amendment, after "means confinement" strike "((for no more than one year)) up to 18 months" and insert "for no more than one year"

On page 32, beginning on line 8 of the striking amendment, after "final" strike "((12)) 18" and insert "12"

On page 32, at the beginning of line 12 of the striking amendment, beginning with "(((b)" strike all material through "department.))" on line 18 and insert the following:

"(b) For an incarcerated individual not sentenced under RCW 9.94A.655, but otherwise eligible under this section, who is participating in the residential parenting program at the department, no more than the final 18 months of the incarcerated individual's term of confinement may be served in partial confinement as home detention as part of the parenting program developed by the department."

On page 35, beginning on line 1 of the striking amendment, beginning with "(((c)" strike all material through "educators.))" on line 6 and insert the following:

"(c) "Residential parenting program" means a correctional nursery program administered by the department that allows pregnant, minimum security incarcerated individuals that meet eligibility criteria established by the department to keep their newborn children with them after giving birth in a designated unit and receive support and education in alliance with skilled early childhood educators."

On page 39, line 20 of the striking amendment, after "final" strike "((12)) 18" and insert "12"

EFFECT: Restores the current statutory maximum of 12 months that a person may be in partial confinement, including the Community Parenting Alternative program and work release, rather than the 18 months provided in the underlying striking amendment. Restores statutory language providing that a person who participates in the Residential Parenting Program may serve up to the final 18 months of the person's term of confinement in partial confinement. Restores statutory language providing the definition of the Residential Parenting Program.

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