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2019 House Bill 1775: Concerning commercially sexually exploited children
Introduced by Rep. Tina Orwall (Des Moines) (D) on January 30, 2019
Referred to the House Human Services & Early Learning Committee on January 30, 2019
Substitute offered in the House on February 20, 2019
Limits the crime of Prostitution to individuals age 18 or older effective July 1, 2021.
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on February 22, 2019
Referred to the House Human Services & Early Learning Committee on January 16, 2020
Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on January 31, 2020
Amendment offered by Rep. Tom Dent (Grant) (R) on February 18, 2020
Allows law enforcement officers to coordinate transportation of a juvenile who may be the victim of sexual exploitation to an evaluation and treatment facility with a liaison from the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) or a community service provider.
Requires the DCYF to coordinate appropriate, available, community-based services for children following discharge from an evaluation and treatment facility.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on February 18, 2020
Received in the Senate on February 20, 2020
Referred to the Senate Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation Committee on February 20, 2020
Referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on February 27, 2020
Referred to the Senate Rules Committee on March 3, 2020
Amendment offered by Sen. Manka Dhingra (Redmond) (D) on March 6, 2020
Receiving centers shall begin offering services by July 1, 2021. Clarifies that receiving centers are located in a behavioral health agency licensed or certified under RCW 71.24.037 to provide inpatient or residential treatment services. Specifies that the services that DCYF offers to children it suspects have been commercially sexually exploited are voluntary. Clarifies that there is no private right of action against DCYF for failure to identify, offer, or provide services. It is clarified that a receiving center is not an agency and therefore exempt from licensing by DCYF. Expands the locations where law enforcement must transport a child who law enforcement took into custody based on a reasonable belief that the child was in circumstances that constitute a danger to the child's safety and is the victim of sexual exploitation to locations beyond only evaluation and treatment centers. These locations are expanded to include an appropriate youth-serving entity or organization including, but not limited to: (a) a HOPE center, (b) foster-family home, (c) crisis residential center, or a (d) community-based program that has expertise working with adolescents in crisis. Directs DCYF, the department of health, and the division of behavioral health and recovery, to meet and coordinate the implementation of receiving centers and develop eligibility criteria for serving commercially sexually exploited children. By December 1, 2020, DCYF is to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding these recommendations as well as providing any additional policy recommendations regarding receiving centers.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 6, 2020
Amendment offered by Sen. Mike Padden (Spokane Valley) (R) on March 6, 2020
Requires DCYF to convene a work group to study and issue recommendations regarding obtaining evidence to aid in prosecution of persons who commercially sexually exploit youth.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 6, 2020
Amendment offered by Sen. Ann Rivers (Vancouver) (R) on March 6, 2020
Changes the effective date for sections 4, 5, and 6 to January 1, 2021.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the Senate on March 6, 2020
Received in the House on March 10, 2020
Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on April 3, 2020