Official Text and Analysis.

Extends juvenile court jurisdiction (and also the maximum age of confinement for individuals convicted in adult court of a crime that was committed while under age 18) from age 21 to age 25 for certain offenses.

Specifies that an individual under the age of 18 convicted in adult court who has an earned release date before the individual's 25th birthday shall remain in the custody of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) until completing the term of confinement or reaching the maximum age of confinement. (2) Specifies that the required review of individuals placed at a DCYF institution that occurs before the individual reaches age 23 occur if the individual's commitment period extends beyond the individual's "23rd birthday" instead of beyond "age 23." (3) Specifies that the juvenile court jurisdiction for certain offenses extend up to the juvenile offender's "25th birthday" and not "age 25." (4) Specifies that the review that the Department of Corrections and the DCYF must undertake regarding certain individuals in the custody of the Department of Corrections that could be transferred to a DCYF institution include individuals with an earned release date before or after the individual's "25th birthday" instead of before or after "age 25.".

Removes the increase in the maximum age of juvenile jurisdiction until age 25 for minors who are adjudicated in juvenile court for a serious violent offense or a violent offense when the minor has a specified criminal history. (2) Applies the opportunity for transfer to Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) to persons sentenced as adults who are under 18 at the time of the offense, instead of persons who are under 18 at the time of conviction. (3) Replaces the terms "individual" and "offender" with "person" and replaces "when the individual reaches the maximum age of juvenile offender commitment by a juvenile court for the same offense provided under RCW 13.40.300" with "age twenty-five." (4) Allows persons in the custody of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) who have an earned release date after their 25th birthday but on or before their 26th birthday to serve the remainder of their sentence after their 25th birthday in partial confinement under the authority and supervision of DCYF. (5) Requires DCYF to meet regularly with school districts who educate students in the custody of medium and maximum security JR institutions in order to coordinate activities of common interest. (6) Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction in collaboration with DCYF to create a comprehensive plan for the education of students in JR and provide it to the Governor and Legislative committees by September 1, 2020. (7) Reduces sentencing ranges in juvenile court for attempted drive-by shooting and attempted robbery first degree when committed at age 16 or 17. (8) Eliminates a discretionary decline hearing when an offense is automatically transferred from adult court to juvenile court for disposition, and allows a discretionary decline hearing when a juvenile is charged with custodial assault in juvenile court while serving a sentence in JR until age 21. (9) Expands the study by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to include a cost-benefit analysis, including health and recidivism effects, of increasing confinement in JR to include persons sentenced in adult court for offenses committed under the age of 21. (10) Amends the null and void clause to apply to sections 1 through 6.

A person who is convicted in adult court for an offense committed at the age of sixteen or seventeen which is a serious violent offense, rape of a child in the first degree, or a violent offense when the person has a criminal history consisting of a serious violent offense, two or more violent offenses, or three or more class A or class B felonies is eligible to serve his or her term of confinement in a Juvenile Rehabilitation facility until age twenty-one, but not until age twenty-five.