The bill adds a new section to chapter 72.23 RCW to establish a community partnership program with the city of Medical Lake to support community policing at Eastern State Hospital and to recognize and perpetuate an existing community partnership program with the city of Lakewood for Western State Hospital. It creates a new statutory funding and program requirement rather than changing an existing penalty or criminal offense. The state is required to provide annual funding to Medical Lake and Lakewood for these community partnership programs, with amounts set in the biennial budget and capped at $750,000 per facility per biennium. The funds are explicitly stated to be in addition to any appropriation for payment for police services. The statute allows each program’s design to vary to reflect community needs and requires that aggregate funding for each city fairly reflect the relative size of each hospital and community needs, though no method for making that determination is specified. The bill requires "the department" (not identified in the provided text) to collect data from the two cities on use of funds and the number of calls the community policing programs respond to, and to submit an annual report with that information to the Office of Financial Management and the legislature’s appropriate fiscal committees by December 1 each year. Important details are missing from the provided text, including which department is meant, definitions of key terms (for example, "community partnership program" and "adjacent areas"), the method for allocating aggregate amounts, any effective date, and any appropriation or enforcement language beyond the budget cap.

If enacted, the state would provide new ongoing grant funding to support community policing programs tied to the eastern and western state hospitals, with each city eligible for up to $750,000 per biennium (amounts set in the biennial budget). That means Medical Lake would get a new state-funded program and Lakewood’s existing program would be formally continued, giving those cities extra revenue to run locally designed community policing activities beyond whatever payments they already receive for police services. The cities of Medical Lake and Lakewood stand to gain funding and must report how they use it and how many calls the programs respond to, while an unspecified state department takes on yearly data collection and must report to OFM and legislative fiscal committees by December 1st each year, creating additional administrative work. The state budget would carry the new or continued appropriation within the biennial budget process. Important implementation details are unclear from the text provided—most notably which department is responsible, how “fair” allocations will be calculated between hospitals and communities, and how terms like “community partnership program” and “calls responded to” are defined—so timing, oversight, and precise allocation methods could be open to negotiation.