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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION 2SHB 1917

HB 1917: Juvenile rehabilitation

Concerning management of individuals who are placed in juvenile rehabilitation institutions.

Summary

  • Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to develop rules for the safe operational capacity of institutions that includes developing the maximum number of people that constitute safe operating capacity.
  • Allows DCYF, when the population of a juvenile institution reaches 105 percent of the safe operational capacity, to transfer people adjudicated in adult court to community facilities and to transfer the oldest people with the longest sentences who were convicted in adult court to Department of Corrections institutions.
  • Discontinues the placement of individuals convicted in adult court who are over age 21 and have an earned release date after the age of 26 from placement in a DCYF institution.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 10, 2025
  2. Out of committeeFeb 28, 2025
  3. Passed Housestopped here
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Lisa Callan (D-5)
Introduced
February 10, 2025 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 1917, SHB 1917, 2SHB 1917

AN ACT Relating to management of individuals who are placed in juvenile rehabilitation institutions;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Lisa Callan (D-5)

1 co-sponsor (0 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Carolyn Eslick R-39

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. (2SHB 1917)
  2. Referred to Early Learning & Human Services. (2SHB 1917)
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (2SHB 1917)
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 1917)
  5. Referred to Early Learning & Human Services. (SHB 1917)
  6. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. (SHB 1917)
  7. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration.
  8. Referred to Early Learning & Human Services.
  9. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  10. Referred to Rules 2 Review. (2SHB 1917)
  11. Referred to Rules 2 Review. (SHB 1917)
  12. Referred to Rules 2 Review.
  13. Minority; without recommendation. (2SHB 1917)
  14. Minority; do not pass. (2SHB 1917)
  15. APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (2SHB 1917)
  16. APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1917)
  17. Minority; do not pass. (SHB 1917)
  18. Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 1917)
  19. APP - Executive action taken by committee. (SHB 1917)
  20. Minority; without recommendation.
  21. Minority; do not pass.
  22. APP - Majority; 2nd substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  23. APP - Executive action taken by committee.
  24. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 1917)
  25. Referred to Appropriations.
  26. ELHS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 1917)
  27. Minority; without recommendation. (SHB 1917)
  28. ELHS - Executive action taken by committee.
  29. Minority; without recommendation.
  30. ELHS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  31. First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services.

HB 1917 in other sessions

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