Official Text and Analysis.

Expands eligibility for the Graduated Reentry Program by removing the requirement that an incarcerated individual serve at least twelve months in total confinement in a state correctional facility.

Requires the department of corrections to publish a monthly report on its website with the number of offenders transferred to home detention as part of the graduated reentry program during the month and requires an annual legislative report on the number of offenders transferred during the prior year.

Specifies that certain incarcerated individuals who are currently serving a term of confinement for any sex offense, violence offense, or crime against a person offense are not eligible for the graduated reentry program.

Establishes the corrections and public safety account in the custody of the state treasurer.

Modifies eligibility for the graduated reentry program by excluding offenders who have not willfully participated in programming and have more than five general infractions and more than two serious infractions during their term of confinement in accordance with department policies.

Requires participants in the graduated reentry program to receive racial equity and implicit bias training prior to transfer to home detention.

Excludes offenders who committed a crime involving the theft of a motor vehicle from participating in the graduated reentry program that allows participants to spend up to the entire remainder of their sentence on electronic home monitoring.

Requires a person to serve at least twelve months in total confinement in order to be eligible to participate in the graduated reentry program where individuals may serve up to the final five months of their sentence on home detention.

Modifies eligibility for the graduated reentry program under subsection (1)(a) by excluding any offender with a conviction for any felony offense where he or she was armed with a firearm or deadly weapon in the commission of the offense.

Requires savings to be reinvested in victims' services for local superior courts or the victims' compensation fund, or both.

Adds a referendum clause to allow the people of the state to vote on this bill if enacted.

Makes the act apply prospectively only.

For participants who have been convicted of a violent offense, sex offense, or crime against a person, requires the department send notice and confirm receipt by any identified victims before releasing to electronic home monitoring as part of the graduated reentry program.

Prohibits the department from releasing violent offenders, sex offenders, and participants who committed crimes against persons to electronic home monitoring as a part of the graduated reentry program in counties where the crime rate exceeds the state average.

Excludes offenders who committed a crime involving a child from participating in the graduated reentry program that allows participants to spend up to the entire remainder of their sentence on electronic home monitoring.

Requires participants in the graduated reentry program to provide an approved residence and living arrangement within the offender's county of origin unless release to county of origin would result in the offender being released within 50 miles of the victim's residence.

Excludes offenders who committed crimes in furtherance of a street gang from participating in the graduated reentry program that allows for participants to spend up to the remainder of the sentence on electronic home monitoring.

The bill would expand eligibility for the Graduated Reentry Program in the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) that allows incarcerated persons to serve part of their sentence in the community rather than in prison. Under current law, which was created in 2018, individuals must have served at least 12 months in confinement at a state prison before becoming eligible to serve up to the last six months of their sentence in the community on electronic home monitoring under the jurisdiction of the (DOC.) This bill would reduce the required confinement time a person must serve in prison before eligibility for the reentry program to six months for most offenders. It would reduce the required confinement time to four months for those who are not currently serving a sentence for a sex, violent, or crime against a person offense. .

Allows a qualifying individual who has served at least four months in total confinement to serve no more than the final 18 months of the individual's term of confinement, rather than the remaining portion, in partial confinement as part of the graduated reentry program.

Requires a qualifying individual to have stable housing and either paid employment or acceptance to a career advancing education program to be eligible for the graduated reentry program. Requires a qualifying individual serving a term of confinement for a drug offense to be participating in a drug treatment program to be eligible for the graduated reentry program.

(1) Requires an individual to serve at least 12 months in total confinement before participating in the graduated reentry program (rather than at least four or six months, depending on the circumstances, in the underlying bill). (2) Allows a qualifying individual serving a sentence for an offense other than a violent offense, sex offense, or crime against persons to serve no more than the final 12 months of the individual's term of confinement, rather than the final 18 months, in partial confinement as part of the graduated reentry program. (3) Allows a qualifying individual serving a sentence for a violent offense, sex offense, or crime against persons to serve no more than the final six months of the individual's term of confinement, rather than the final five months, in partial confinement as part of the graduated reentry program.

Senate concurred in House amendment(s).