BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION E2SSB 5278
SB 5278: Juvenile rehabilitation
Concerning the 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 rated bed capacity of juvenile rehabilitation institutions and monitor the number of persons residing in each institution and when that number reaches 90 percent of rated bed capacity begin planning and identifying methods to avoid exceeding the rated bed capacity, and to take certain discretionary actions to reduce the population of a juvenile rehabilitation institution when the population exceeds 105 percent of rated capacity.
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 when the facility is at or above 105 percent of rated bed capacity, and requires that those individuals be placed in a Department of Corrections (DOC) institution.
Allows the DCYF to transfer persons convicted in adult court to the custody of the DOC when continued placement of the person in a DCYF facility presents a continuous and serious threat to others in the facility, and when the population of the institution exceeds 105 percent of the rated bed capacity, for people of certain ages who consistently refuse to participate in available rehabilitative programming or engage in planning for such programming.
Requires the DCYF to establish rules for defining and developing an internal behavioral management infraction system and procedures to respond to a continuing and serious threat to the safety of others in a juvenile institution.
From the Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill Report (E2SSB 5278), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House