E2SHB 1715 — Enacting comprehensive protections for victims of domestic violence and other violence involving family members or intimate partners.

What this bill does

• Creates a hotline to perform lethality assessments and a high lethality designation on domestic violence perpetrators. • Requires electronic monitoring with victim notification technology to be available statewide. • Requires the creation of a plan for a right to counsel for low-income survivors of domestic violence and a list of attorneys who specialize in representing such victims. • Makes changes to civil protection orders. • Makes changes to provisions regarding crimes of domestic violence, including domestic violence no-contact orders, court proceedings, and law enforcement practices. • Makes changes to the firearms or dangerous weapons surrender process. • Makes changes to the Address Confidentiality program and personal financial affairs reports filed with the Public Disclosure Commission. • Creates a grant program for a statewide prosecutor for domestic violence cases. • Creates a pilot program for domestic violence high risk teams. • Creates the Office of the Statewide Domestic Violence Ombuds. • Creates the University of Washington Center for Excellence in Domestic Violence Research, Policy, and Practice. • Expands training for law enforcement and judicial officers regarding domestic violence.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 7, 2023
  69 yea · 25 nay · 4 not voting
• House — Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 22, 2023
  91 yea · 7 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 22, 2023
  42 yea · 7 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · April 10, 2023
  38 yea · 11 nay

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