This bill amends and reenacts parts of the criminal legal code, including RCW 9.94A.501 and RCW 9.94A.565, and makes additional amendments to related provisions. It systematically replaces the term "offender" with "individual" in the amended provisions shown. The act changes supervision rules by requiring "the department" to supervise specified individuals sentenced to probation or released to community custody when certain conviction categories apply, and it reconfirms the governor’s authority to grant pardons or clemency while adding reporting requirements when persons serving life without parole are released by executive action. The bill makes procedural and sanction changes: courts may sanction a person who violates sentence conditions with up to 60 days’ confinement per violation and the department may impose up to 30 days’ confinement per violation (per RCW 9.94A.737). It authorizes a range of noncustodial sanctions, allows the department to issue warrants for violations, and sets limits and eligibility rules for partial confinement programs (including up to 12 months for certain work release/parenting programs, up to five months for home detention in some programs, and up to 18 months in other circumstances after specified confinement). It creates rules for extraordinary medical placement of incarcerated persons, requires electronic monitoring unless medically contraindicated, permits revocation of such placements, and excludes persistent offenders and those sentenced to death or life without parole from extraordinary medical placement. The act establishes a Clemency and Pardons Board within the governor’s office with ten governor-appointed, senate-confirmed members, prescribes diversity and membership categories (including members with direct lived experience and victims’ representatives), training, terms, compensation, and procedures for petition review (random five-member panels), public hearings for clemency recommendations, prosecuting attorney notice (90 days unless waived), confidential victim-notice information, and annual reporting to the governor and legislature listing commutations or pardons and any known recidivism. The governor retains pardon authority; the department may release an incarcerated person up to ten days before a calculated release date and other release rules are specified (including exceptions for mandatory-minimum sentences and juvenile placements). Sections 1 and 4 expire January 1, 2026; Sections 2 and 5 take effect January 1, 2026; and the act is null and void if specific funding for it is not provided in the omnibus appropriations act by June 30, 2025. The text provided is incomplete in places: the identity of "the department" is not specified, two different versions of amended RCW 9.94A.501 appear without clarity on which is final, and several sections end mid-text or refer to other amendments not included here.

If enacted, the bill would expand and clarify who must be supervised in the community and strengthen the range of sanctions and early-release tools corrections authorities and courts can use: courts could impose up to 60 days' confinement per violation and the department up to 30, with broader options for electronic monitoring, home detention, work release, treatment, and other community sanctions; limits on how long people can serve the final portions of their terms in partial confinement are specified; extraordinary medical placements would be allowed in narrow circumstances but generally require electronic monitoring and exclude those serving death or life without parole. The act also creates a clemency and pardons board within the governor’s office with specified membership, training, staffing, and reporting duties, requires twice-yearly governor reports on any life-without-parole releases for at least ten years, and mandates annual board reporting to the governor and legislature listing pardons and commutations and any known recidivism. The most affected parties are the department referenced in the bill (not named in the text, so its exact identity is unclear but its responsibilities clearly increase), the governor’s office and newly structured clemency board, prosecutors and victims who must be notified of hearings, and incarcerated people who could gain or be subject to new release, supervision, or sanction processes. Practically, the department would face higher supervision caseloads and monitoring costs, the governor’s office and attorney general would incur costs to staff, train, and compensate board members and produce reports, and prosecutors and victim services would have added notification and confidentiality duties. Key implementation details and total costs remain uncertain because the bill text here omits exact effective dates for some sections, the final choice between alternate supervision language is unclear, and the act is void unless specific funding is provided by June 30, 2025.