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SB 5247

Momentum Bucket Early Stage
Legal Title AN ACT Relating to transferring ownership of the Naselle Youth Camp property to the Chinook Indian Nation;
Bill Description Transferring ownership of the Naselle Youth Camp property to the Chinook Indian Nation.
What this bill does
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This bill creates a new statutory section directing the state to transfer the Naselle Youth Camp property to the Chinook Indian Nation and amends two existing statutes (RCW 28A.190.005 and RCW 72.05.010) to remove Naselle Youth Camp from lists of state juvenile and residential school facilities. The Department of Enterprise Services must execute an agreement by October 1, 2025, to convey title from the state to the Chinook Indian Nation without further consideration, if the tribe agrees to maintain ownership for at least 10 years and use the property for tribal government purposes. These are procedural and property-transfer changes to state law, not criminal or penalty changes. The bill identifies affected agencies and programs, including the Chinook Indian Nation as the recipient, the Department of Enterprise Services to carry out the transfer, DCYF and DSHS as the agencies named in the amended facility lists, school districts and educational service districts as institutional education providers, and the Department of Corrections as referenced in definitions. The provided text does not include the legal description of the Naselle property, deed or recording procedures, or post-transfer oversight beyond the ten-year ownership and use conditions, and it omits the full text of the other RCW sections it references.
Why it matters
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If enacted, the state would transfer ownership of the Naselle Youth Camp to the Chinook Indian Nation at no cost by October 1, 2025, provided the tribe agrees to keep the property for at least ten years and use it for tribal government purposes. In practice this means the Chinook Nation would gain control of the land and any benefits or burdens that come with it (including maintenance and operating costs), while the state (through DES) would remove the property from its inventory and no longer be directly responsible for its upkeep, reducing the state's ongoing management and potential liability for that site. The parties most affected are the Chinook Indian Nation, which gains an asset but also new obligations and likely costs to maintain and use the property for the agreed period, and the Department of Enterprise Services, which must prepare and execute the transfer by the deadline. The bill also removes the camp from certain state statutory lists, but the real implications for DCYF, DSHS, school districts, funding streams, environmental liability, or precise title and recording steps are not specified in the text provided, so those downstream effects remain unclear.
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SB 5247 Details and Bill Topics

Details

Date Introduced 01/14/2025
Originating Chamber Senate
Biennium 2025-26
Total Campaign Dollars Backing Bill $238,353.77

Bill Topics

TRIBES AND TRIBAL MEMBERS

SB 5247 Sponsors and Committee Hearings

Sponsors

Senator J. Wilson (Primary)
Senator Chapman

Committee Hearings

Go to SB 5247 at leg.wa.gov

SB 5247 Bill Timeline

Early Stage
1/11/2026
SState Gov/Trib
By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
1/13/2025
SState Gov/Trib
First reading, referred to State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections.

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