Substitute House Bill 1101 (H-1080.1), introduced in the Washington House by the House Community Safety Committee and originally sponsored by Representatives Jacobsen and Klicker, amends RCW 9.94A.030, creates a new section, and addresses vehicular homicide offenses. The bill was read for the first time on February 3, 2025. The bill states the legislature’s finding that vehicular homicide is a class A felony and expresses intent to designate vehicular homicide, when committed under any circumstances, as a violent offense. It reproduces and modifies numerous definitions in RCW 9.94A.030 (including terms such as "board," "department," "community protection zone," "community restitution," "electronic monitoring," and "felony traffic offense" which explicitly includes vehicular homicide), and clarifies procedural duties such as requiring the department to collect offender payments and deliver the daily payment to the superior court clerk without depositing it in a departmental account. The act also specifies that electronic monitoring may include victim notification technology. Section 2 of the act expires January 1, 2026, and Section 3 takes effect January 1, 2026. Legally, this is a reclassification/definition change (designating vehicular homicide as a violent offense) together with other definitional and procedural amendments to the sentencing and corrections statutes. The extracted materials do not include the exact amendment language that adds vehicular homicide to the statutory list of violent offenses, the full text of the new section, or some truncated definitions (for example, portions of the "escape" and other definitions), so the precise statutory edits and any additional operative provisions or penalty changes cannot be confirmed from the provided facts.

If enacted as shown in these extracts, the practical effect would be that vehicular homicide would be treated as a violent offense in all circumstances, which will likely reduce convicted drivers’ access to diversion or less restrictive sentencing options, increase the likelihood of longer sentences or stricter community custody, and raise supervision and incarceration costs for the Department of Corrections and local governments. The department would also be required to deliver offender legal financial obligation payments daily to superior court clerks without holding them, continue to operate or expand electronic monitoring (potentially with victim notification), and provide short transition training for work ethic camp completers, all of which shift operational responsibilities and modest administrative costs to corrections and courts. Those most affected are people convicted of vehicular homicide (who would face fewer sentencing options and possibly higher custody and supervision costs or risks), the Department of Corrections (which takes on collection, monitoring, training, and victim-notification duties), superior court clerks (who must receive daily payments), and victims (who may gain more notification and protection). The text here does not include the exact amendment language that changes the violent-offense list or all effective dates and expirations, so the precise timing and some implementation details of these changes are uncertain.