The bill creates a temporary task force to review Washington laws on criminal insanity and competency to stand trial. It specifies membership drawn from state agencies, courts, defense and prosecution organizations, hospitals, behavioral health and advocacy groups, Medicaid managed care and BH-ASO representatives, county and city representatives, three people with lived forensic mental health experience, and others; requires the Department of Social and Health Services to convene the initial meeting, provide staffing, appoint 19 members, and provide reporting under RCW 43.18A.030; allows the task force to form subcommittees and to contract for technical expertise only if a specific appropriation is provided; requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the governor and appropriate legislative committees by December 1, 2026; states that nonlegislative members are not entitled to travel reimbursement if they are elected officials or participating on behalf of an employer or governmental entity and that reimbursement for other nonlegislative members is subject to chapter 43.03 RCW; and sets the task force to expire June 30, 2027. Separately, the bill directs the Code Reviser to recodify numerous specified sections of chapter 10.77 RCW into new chapter headings and to correct statutory references accordingly, and it decodifies five specified RCW sections (10.77.2101; 10.77.290; 10.77.310; 10.77.940; 10.77.950). These are procedural statutory-reorganization changes rather than the creation of new criminal offenses or penalty changes. The extracted text does not include the substantive language of any recodified provisions, any appropriation language, or a deadline for the Code Reviser’s recodification work, and it references A.B. v. DSHS ("Trueblood") and listed RCW provisions without providing their substantive content.

The bill creates a temporary, state‑led task force to review Washington’s criminal insanity and competency to stand trial laws, with the Department of Social and Health Services required to convene the first meeting, provide staff support, appoint members, and file the required report by December 1, 2026; the task force ends June 30, 2027. That will require time and staff from DSHS, the Department of Corrections, Health Care Authority, Attorney General’s office, public defense, judicial and law enforcement associations, prosecutors, defenders, hospitals, behavioral health organizations, advocacy groups, and three people with lived forensic mental health experience to participate in meetings and drafting work; outside technical consultants can only be hired if a specific appropriation is made, and some nonlegislative members will not be reimbursed for travel depending on how they participate. The bill also directs the Code Reviser to reorganize many sections of chapter 10.77 RCW into new chapter headings and to remove five sections, which will change where those provisions live in the statutes and require agencies and stakeholders to update references and internal guidance. Key implementation details are missing here: the text of any new or recodified provisions, whether funding will be provided for contracting or member reimbursement, and any deadline for the Code Reviser’s recodification, so the full operational and cost impacts are uncertain until those items are clarified.