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WashingtonSB 52192025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Concerning partial confinement eligibility and alignment.

Sponsored By: Claire Wilson (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Required addiction care during prison reentry

Beginning July 27, 2025, the Department of Corrections must obtain a clinical substance-use evaluation before transfers to three programs. These are parenting home detention, graduated reentry, and work release. When a disorder is diagnosed, the department must help with treatment enrollment and ensure care starts as soon as practicable after transfer. Care includes medication-assisted treatment and counseling when needed. The department must also provide access to self-administered fentanyl testing supplies and opioid-overdose reversal medicine when clinically appropriate.

Earlier home detention for eligible prisoners

Beginning July 27, 2025, the general graduated reentry track allows the final nine months at home, up from five. Participants must first serve at least six months in full-time confinement in a state correctional facility. The separate 18-month track requires three months in full-time confinement, down from four. That track excludes sentences for sex offenses, violent offenses, and crimes against persons; existing eligibility restrictions remain. These changes also cover people already serving sentences in state-run or contracted facilities.

Longer community stays for eligible prisoners

Beginning July 27, 2025, eligible people can serve their final 18 months in work release or parenting-program partial confinement. That raises the limit from 12 months, but placements cannot exceed the final 18 months. Partial confinement means spending much of each day confined in an approved facility or residence, with time in the community. Beginning January 1, 2026, the revised sentencing definition also sets an 18-month limit, up from one year. The updated parenting and partial-confinement rules cover both future sentences and people already serving sentences in state-run or contracted facilities.

More home time for incarcerated caregivers

Beginning July 27, 2025, eligible parenting-program participants can serve their final 18 months at home instead of 12. The increase applies to people who lacked the prior residential-program exception; this transfer option excludes people sentenced under RCW 9.94A.655. Eligibility expands to caregivers with a proven, established, ongoing, substantial relationship with a child at the time of the offense. Expected caregivers can also qualify with that relationship, provided no law, court order, or other restriction bars contact. If an earned release date changes after placement, the department can extend participation by up to six months, but not past that release date.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Claire Wilson

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • John Lovick

    Democratic • Senate

  • Lisa Wellman

    Democratic • Senate

  • Noel Frame

    Democratic • Senate

  • T'wina Nobles

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 130 • No: 110

Senate vote • 4/18/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 28 • No: 20 • Other: 1

House vote • 4/11/2025

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 54 • No: 42 • Other: 2

Senate vote • 2/19/2025

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 29 • No: 19 • Other: 1

Senate vote • 2/19/2025

51 Wagoner Pg 12 Ln 37

Yes: 19 • No: 29 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 7/27/2025*.

    5/20/2025Senate

  2. Chapter 407, 2025 Laws.

    5/20/2025Senate

  3. Governor signed.

    5/20/2025legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    4/23/2025legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    4/22/2025legislature

  6. President signed.

    4/19/2025legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 28; nays, 20; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    4/18/2025Senate

  8. Senate concurred in House amendments.

    4/18/2025House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 54; nays, 42; absent, 0; excused, 2.

    4/11/2025Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    4/11/2025Senate

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    4/11/2025Senate

  12. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    4/10/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    4/8/2025Senate

  14. APP - Executive action taken by committee.

    4/7/2025Senate

  15. Minority; do not pass.

    4/7/2025Senate

  16. APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    4/7/2025Senate

  17. Referred to Appropriations.

    3/28/2025Senate

  18. Minority; without recommendation.

    3/26/2025Senate

  19. CS - Majority; do pass.

    3/26/2025Senate

  20. CS - Executive action taken by committee.

    3/26/2025Senate

  21. First reading, referred to Community Safety.

    2/24/2025Senate

  22. Third reading, passed; yeas, 29; nays, 19; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    2/19/2025Senate

  23. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    2/19/2025Senate

  24. Floor amendment(s) adopted.

    2/19/2025Senate

  25. 1st substitute bill substituted.

    2/19/2025Senate

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