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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5426

SB 5426: Court alternatives/youth

Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.

Summary

  • Removes diversion agreements and successfully completed diversions from a youth's criminal history.
  • Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to establish a grant program and seek advice on how to prioritize distribution of those funds for community-based programs.
  • Creates new diversion data reporting requirements for the Administrative Office of the Courts.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5426), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2025
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Claire Wilson (D-30)
Introduced
January 22, 2025 in the Senate
Last action
January 12, 2026
Companion bill
HB 1391
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5426, SSB 5426

AN ACT Relating to improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Claire Wilson (D-30)

6 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Noel Frame D-36Bob Hasegawa D-11T'wina Nobles D-28Rebecca Saldaña D-37Yasmin Trudeau D-27Javier Valdez D-46

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5426)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5426)
  4. Referred to Ways & Means.
  5. And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5426)
  6. HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5426)
  7. Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5426)
  8. Minority; do not pass.
  9. HS - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  10. And refer to Ways & Means.
  11. First reading, referred to Human Services.

SB 5426 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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