This bill (House Bill 2014, H-1584.1) amends multiple provisions of chapter 9.94A RCW and related sections to revise definitions and to change eligibility, duration, monitoring, and program procedures for partial confinement (including home detention), the parenting program, the graduated reentry program, and extraordinary medical placement. It does not create new crimes or expressly change criminal penalties in the extracted text; instead it makes procedural and eligibility changes, and updates statutory definitions used across the chapter. Key procedural and eligibility changes in the extracted text include: a clarified definition of partial confinement as up to 18 months and a definition of home detention as 24-hour confinement in a private residence subject to electronic monitoring; limits and conditions for placement in the parenting program (no more than the final 18 months of term for those not sentenced under RCW 9.94A.655, prerequisites such as sentence length, no current sex or serious violent offense, consent to release-of-information waivers, department finding that participation is in the child's best interest, requirement to provide an approved residence, and DCYF or tribal input when there is an open child welfare case); expanded authority for the department to require programming/treatment, assign a community corrections officer, and return participants to total confinement for noncompliance; and rules allowing the department to extend parenting-program participation by up to six months in certain circumstances. The graduated reentry program provisions set minimum total-confinement time before eligibility, limit home detention to the final nine months under one subsection and to the final 18 months under another for eligible individuals, require a substance use disorder evaluation and access to treatment and overdose-reversal supports when appropriate, require electronic home monitoring and assignment of a community corrections officer while in community-based partial confinement, permit return to total confinement for noncompliance, authorize rental vouchers up to six months when needed to secure an approved residence, and require monthly and annual public reporting and data sharing with the Health Care Authority. Other administrative changes in the extracted text include an explicit requirement that when the department "collects" legal financial obligations it must receive payment from the offender and deliver the entire payment daily to the superior court clerk without depositing it in a departmental account; modifications to extraordinary medical placement criteria (two physician assessments, low community risk, cost savings, electronic monitoring unless medically contraindicated, persistent offenders and certain sentences excluded); numerous clarified and added statutory definitions (for example, community protection zone, legal financial obligation, risk assessment, work crew, work ethic camp, recidivist/persistent/predatory definitions); and temporal provisions that section 1 of the act expires January 1, 2026 while section 2 takes effect January 1, 2026 and some changes apply prospectively and retroactively to persons currently serving sentences. The extracted materials are incomplete: the full texts of some amended sections and any newly created sections are not included here, the complete requirements for electronic home monitoring are cut off in places, and the full definition text for some terms is truncated.

If enacted, the bill makes it easier for some incarcerated people to serve the final months of their terms outside prison by expanding and clarifying partial confinement options (including home detention, work release, work crews, and electronic monitoring) and by allowing up to 18 months of partial confinement in certain parenting and graduated reentry cases. The Department of Corrections would have new or clarified responsibilities: screening eligibility (including checks with DCYF and tribal jurisdictions), obtaining release-of-information waivers, requiring electronic monitoring and programming/treatment (including substance use disorder evaluation and access to treatment and overdose-reversal supplies), assigning community corrections officers, and providing transition training and possibly short-term rental vouchers. Superior court clerks would receive daily legal financial obligation payments because the department must deliver payments each day rather than hold them. These changes shift costs and operational work onto the department and community supervision staff (monitoring, treatment coordination, electronic monitoring equipment/services, and rental vouchers), while creating more supervised community options for eligible incarcerated people who meet the bill’s criteria. The department may also save money in some cases (for example through reduced time in total confinement or extraordinary medical placements), but it assumes added risk of having to return participants to custody for noncompliance and faces limited liability except for willful or wanton conduct. The extracted text omits some full section language and effective/expiration details for all provisions, so the precise timing, eligible populations in every program variant, and some procedural specifics remain unclear.