Concerning housing of inmates in state correctional facilities.

 H-0195.1

HOUSE BILL 1027

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Jacobsen, Marshall, Burnett, and Couture

Prefiled 12/10/24. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee on Community Safety.

AN ACT Relating to housing of inmates in state correctional facilities; and adding a new section to chapter 72.09 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 72.09 RCW to read as follows:

An inmate may not be housed in a correctional facility that primarily houses persons of a different biological sex than that of the inmate if the inmate has previously been convicted of a sex offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030 against a victim whose biological sex is the same as those persons who are primarily housed in that correctional facility.