SB 5147 — Reviewing laws related to criminal insanity and competency to stand trial.

S-0818.1S-0177.3 SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5147 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By Senate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Torres, Dhingra, Frame, Harris, and Trudeau)Trudeau READPrefiled FIRST01/07/25. TIME 01/24/25.

Read first time 01/13/25.

Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

(i) TheOne secretarymember from each of the departmenttwo largest caucuses of socialthe andsenate, healthto servicesbe orappointed by the secretary'spresident designee;of the senate;

1 SSBSB 5147 (ii) TheOne secretarymember from each of the departmenttwo largest caucuses of correctionsthe orhouse of representatives, to be appointed by the secretary'sspeaker designee;of the house of representatives;

(iii) The directorsecretary of the healthdepartment careof authoritysocial and health services or the director'ssecretary's designee;

(iv) The Washingtonsecretary stateof attorneythe generaldepartment of corrections or the attorneysecretary's general's designee;

(v) The director of the Washingtonhealth statecare officeauthority of public defense or the director's designee;

and (vi) NineteenThe membersWashington tostate beattorney appointedgeneral byor the departmentattorney ofgeneral's socialdesignee; and health services meeting the descriptions identified in (a)(vi)(A) through (Q) of this subsection:

(vii) The director of the Washington state office of public defense or the director's designee;

and (viii) Seventeen members to be appointed by the department of social and health services meeting the descriptions identified in (a)(viii)(A) through (O) of this subsection:

(H) AOne member designated by plaintiff'sthe counselnational inalliance A.B.,on bymental andillness throughWashington; Trueblood, et al., v.

DSHS,(I) etAn al.,independent No.mental health professional with expertise in forensics;

15-35462(J) ("Trueblood");A representative of a medicaid managed care organization;

(I)(K) OneA memberrepresentative of county governments, to be designated by the nationalWashington alliancestate onassociation mentalof illnesscounties; Washington;

(J)(L) AnA independentrepresentative mentalof healthcity professionalgovernments, withto expertisebe indesignated forensics;by the association of Washington cities;

(K)(M) A representative of awestern medicaidstate managedhospital; care organization;

(L) A representative of behavioral health administrative services organizations;

(M) A representative of county governments, to be designated by the Washington state association of counties;

(N) A representative of city governments, to be designated by the association of Washington cities;

(O) A representative of western state hospital;

2 SSBSB 5147 (P)(N) A representative of eastern state hospital;

and (Q)(O) Three individuals with direct lived experience of the forensic mental health system, including at least one person who is a former competency restoration patient and at least one person with experience of commitment related to criminal insanity.

Senate committee services and the office of program research mayshall provide staff support tofor the tasklegislative forcemembers inof the areastask offorce. statutory research and statutory drafting.

(5) NonlegislativeLegislative members areof notthe entitledtask toforce beare reimbursed for travel expenses ifin theyaccordance arewith electedRCW officials44.04.120. or are participating on behalf of an employer, governmental entity, or other organization.

Nonlegislative members are not entitled to be reimbursed for travel expenses if they are elected officials or are participating on behalf of an employer, governmental entity, or other organization.

3 SSBSB 5147 (6) The task force shall report its findings and recommendations to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 2026.

4 SSBSB 5147 RCW 10.77.040 RCW 10.77.080 RCW 10.77.091 RCW 10.77.094 RCW 10.77.110 RCW 10.77.120 RCW 10.77.132 RCW 10.77.140 RCW 10.77.150 RCW 10.77.152 RCW 10.77.155 RCW 10.77.160 RCW 10.77.170 RCW 10.77.175 RCW 10.77.180 RCW 10.77.190 RCW 10.77.195 RCW 10.77.200 RCW 10.77.220 Competency to Stand Trial RCW 10.77.050 RCW 10.77.068 RCW 10.77.072 RCW 10.77.074 RCW 10.77.075 RCW 10.77.079 RCW 10.77.084 RCW 10.77.0845 RCW 10.77.086 RCW 10.77.088 RCW 10.77.0885 RCW 10.77.089 RCW 10.77.092 RCW 10.77.093 RCW 10.77.202 RCW 10.77.320 (2) The code reviser shall correct all statutory references to sections recodifed by this section.

5 SSBSB 5147 (1) RCW 10.77.2101 (Implementation of legislative intent);

6 SSBSB 5147