S-1126.1
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5031
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Human Services (originally sponsored by Senators C. Wilson, Hasegawa, Krishnadasan, Nobles, Saldaña, Trudeau, and Wellman)
READ FIRST TIME 02/06/25.
AN ACT Relating to statewide health care coordination and communication regarding individuals housed in facilities of confinement; and adding a new chapter to Title 70 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the growing number of projects and programs between and within government agencies related to the health of individuals housed in confinement settings create challenges in coordination and communication. These health issues include mental health, traumatic brain injury, substance use, communicable disease and infection prevention, health preventive services, and excess mortality.
The legislature further finds that health in correctional institutions and other confinement settings is vital to public health and reentry because many individuals in these settings interact with and return to their communities. Statewide coordination and communication efforts for treating individuals in correctional and other confinement facilities will positively influence the community and reentry of such individuals.