Recent Legislation
2023
Washington
HB 1169: Eliminates the mandatory victim penalty assessment and replaces the fee revenue for victim advocates with a specific fund.
2022
SB 2050: Prohibits the state from charging parents fees for their child's incarceration.
HB 1874: Reduces barriers to occupational licensure.
HB 1412: Authorizes the court to waive fees as well as restitution to insurance companies for people assessed as indigent.
2021
Senate Bill 5226: Eliminates suspensions of driver’s licenses for failure to pay and included a robust retroactive reinstatement process for both failure to pay and failure to appear, as well as the expansion of payment plans.
House Bill 1399: Provides for individuals with a criminal conviction to request a determination of whether that criminal history is disqualifying for obtaining a professional license,
House Bill 1411: Prohibits the Department of Social and Health Services from automatically disqualifying a person who has a criminal record with certain crimes from working with vulnerable adults.
2020
House Bill 2393: Creates a system for qualified individuals to earn supervision compliance credits. Each month of qualifying community custody (either on probation or parole) would earn 10 days of credit per month of compliance.
House Bill 2394: Modifies the current practice around sentencing of people with multiple supervision sentences. Existing practice defaults to consecutive sentences unless a judge orders otherwise – this bill would default to concurrent sentences unless a judge orders otherwise.
House Bill 2417: Modifies the existing sanction tiers for low level violations. Previous practice was for the first low level violation to receive a nonconfinement sanction, the second through fifth low level violations to receive up to 3 days of confinement, and the sixth and subsequent violations to be treated as a high level violation, and therefore receiving up to 30 days of confinement. This legislation allows for either a nonconfinement sanction or 1-3 days confinement for the first through fifth low level violation; community corrections officers would have discretion to treat the sixth and subsequent low level violations as either a high level violation (with up to 30 days confinement) or as a low level sanction (either nonconfinement sanction or up to three days confinement).
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