H-0482.1
HOUSE BILL 1424
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Obras, Farivar, Simmons, Ryu, Parshley, Peterson, Reed, Ramel, Gregerson, Goodman, Doglio, Cortes, Fey, Fosse, Leavitt, Street, Hill, Macri, and Scott
Read first time 01/20/25. Referred to Committee on Community Safety.
AN ACT Relating to transparency, public safety, and independent oversight of the city, county, and regional jail system in Washington state; amending RCW 70.48.510 ; and adding a new chapter to Title 43 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds that independent oversight of correctional systems encourages public trust, supports safe and humane conditions for correctional employees and incarcerated people, enhances public safety, and promotes reform towards more rehabilitative and therapeutic correctional systems.
The legislature established the joint legislative task force on jail standards to study and make recommendations regarding jail conditions and oversight. This act reflects many of the findings and recommendations of that task force, whose members represented the senate and house of representatives, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement, courts, jail administrators, counties and cities, medical and mental health services providers, persons with lived experience, and others interested in the operation of jails.