BILL · 2023–24 SESSION
SB 5135: Solitary confinement
Concerning solitary confinement.
Summary
- Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state correctional facilities and long-term private detention facilities except when necessary for emergency purposes, medical isolation, or when the person voluntarily requests such confinement.
- Establishes limits on duration, hearing processes, standards around living conditions, and access to activities outside of the cell, basic necessities, communication, personal hygiene, and medical care for persons in solitary confinement.
- Requires development of rules, policies, and transition plans by certain dates.
- Requires collection and reporting of data on the use of solitary confinement.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 9, 2023
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Claire Wilson (D-30)
- Introduced
- January 9, 2023 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 8, 2024
- Companion bill
- HB 1087
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to solitary confinement;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Claire Wilson (D-30)
9 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Human Services.
- Prefiled for introduction.
SB 5135 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5135 (2025–26) Curriculum establishment
- SB 5135 (2021–22) Unlawfully summoning police
- SB 5135 (2019–20) Toxic pollution
- SB 5135 (2017–18) Main street program
- SB 5135 (2015–16) Groundwater uses/Skagit flow
- SB 5135 (2013–14) Judicial proceedings & forms
- SB 5135 (2011–12) Unemployment insurance prog.
- SB 5135 (2009–10) King Co. distr court judges