HB 1137 — Establishing uniform policies and procedures within department of corrections facilities relating to disciplinary proceedings and administrative segregation.

H-0825.1H-0115.1 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1137 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By House Community Safety (originally sponsored by Representatives Peterson, Gregerson, Berry, Alvarado, Macri, Cortes, Callan, Ryu, Farivar, Doglio, Ortiz-Self, Simmons, Street, Pollet, Kloba, Nance, Berg, Ormsby, Lekanoff, and Hill)Hill READPrefiled FIRST12/27/24. TIME 01/27/25.

Read first time 01/13/25.

Referred to Committee on Community Safety.

1 SHBHB 1137 inmate that is based on, or arises from, injury to the correctional officer or department employee caused by the inmate while the correctional officer or department employee was acting in the course and scope of his or her employment.

2 SHBHB 1137 (15) "Indigent inmate," "indigent," and "indigency" mean an inmate who has less than a $25 balance of disposable income in his or her institutional account on the day a request is made to utilize funds and during the 30 days previous to the request.

3 SHBHB 1137 (c) Guide an ((offender)) incarcerated person from one location to another.

4 SHBHB 1137 leaves the correctional facility to the time of arrival at the other location, and includes the escorting of the pregnant incarcerated ((woman or youth)) person from the correctional facility to a transport vehicle and from the vehicle to the other location.

(1) The circumstances orwarranting actions that may warrant administrative segregation in response to suspected prohibited conduct or disciplinary proceedings include the following:

(c) AssaultSerious resultingassault in serious physical injury or attempted assault that would have resulted in serious physicalassault; injury, including assault of department staff;

and (e) Reliable and specific intelligence that one of these events is likely and imminent unless particular individuals are removed from the general population.population;

and (f) Protective custody.

5 SHBHB 1137 (2) Medical necessity may justify placing an individual temporarily in close observation areas or infirmaries under medical supervision but does not justify administrative segregation status.

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(4) An incarcerated person may not lose housing, education, or work assignments, or other programming assignments solely due to placement on administrative segregation unless documented institutional or programmatic needs require such removal or change.

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A new section is added to chapter 72.09 RCW to read as follows:

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6 SHB 1137 By January 31, 2026, and by January 31 every year thereafter, the department must post on its website an annual report on its use of administrative segregation.

That report shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) The total number of administrative segregation placements during the prior year;

(2) The number of administrative segregation placements during the prior year due to suspected prohibited behavior or the disciplinary process;

(3) The number of administrative segregation placements during the prior year for each of the following reasons:

(a) Threat to safety and security of others;

(b) Threat to orderliness of the facility;

(c) Housing assignment refusal;

(d) Contraband;

or (e) Other;

(4) The number of temporary administrative segregation placements during the prior year for each of the following nondisciplinary reasons:

(a) Medical hold;

(b) Transport or classification delay;

or (c) Protective custody;

(5)(a) The mean and median length of an individual's stay in administrative segregation during the prior year;

and (b) If the median length of stay is more than 15 days, any steps the department has taken in the prior year to decrease that length of stay and what, if any, additional resources are needed in order to achieve its goal of 15 days or less in administrative segregation;

(6) If the circumstances that led to an administrative segregation placement that the department reported under subsection (3)(a) of this section involved conduct by an incarcerated individual and a victim or attempted victim, the report shall also include whether the victim or attempted victim was a department employee or staff or an incarcerated individual and whether medical aid was provided or required.

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