This bill amends RCW 9.94A.501 to expand and clarify who the Department of Corrections must supervise in the community. It requires the department to supervise certain superior-court probationers convicted of specified offenses (including certain sexual offenses involving minors, failure to register, and related offenses), persons with qualifying repetitive domestic violence convictions (with an August 1, 2011 timing element), anyone convicted of stalking, individuals released by the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board or granted conditional commutation, and persons sentenced to community custody who are assessed as high risk or who meet a list of specified conditions (including certain sex or serious violent offenses, dangerous mentally ill designation, indeterminate sentence parolees, certain registration or domestic violence convictions, specific sentencing statutes, supervision under RCW 9.94A.745, and certain vehicular offenses). Misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor offenders supervised under this section must be placed on community custody, and the department may not supervise a person unless supervision is required by this section. The amendment imposes procedural requirements and limits: the department must conduct a risk assessment for every person convicted of a felony and sentenced to community custody who may be subject to supervision; the maximum period of department supervision may not exceed the community custody durations set in the cited RCWs except where an exceptional term is imposed by the court or added by the governor; and supervision periods may be reduced by earned supervision compliance credit under RCW 9.94A.717. One domestic-violence clause applies only to offenses committed before July 24, 2015, and the state and its officers, agents, and employees are protected from criminal or civil liability for supervision under a specified clause unless they acted with gross negligence. The text provided does not include statutory definitions (for example, “department,” “community custody,” or “repetitive domestic violence offense”) or the detailed content of the numerous referenced RCWs, so full operational and procedural details cannot be determined from these extracts. The bill was read for the first time on January 21, 2026.

If enacted, the bill will bring a larger and more specific set of people under Department of Corrections supervision — including certain superior-court probationers convicted of listed sex and registration offenses, people with specified repetitive domestic violence histories, stalking convictions, and felony offenders who a risk assessment rates high or who meet several listed criteria (like dangerous mentally ill designation, indeterminate sentences, or conditional commutation). Misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor offenders who fall under these new supervision rules must be placed on community custody, and the DOC must perform risk assessments for every felony-convicted person sentenced to community custody who might be supervised. Practically, this likely increases DOC caseloads, supervision costs, and administrative work (risk assessments and managing more community custody cases), shifts some probation supervision responsibility from courts or local systems to the state DOC, and could extend how long some people are supervised under existing community custody limits (with some exceptions). The bill also narrows liability for the state in at least one domestic-violence clause unless gross negligence is shown. Key details that affect exact costs, staffing needs, and who is included (definitions, precise durations, and the referenced statutory criteria) are not provided here and are located in other statutes.