2SHB 1391 — Improving developmentally appropriate alternatives for youth outside the formal court process.

What this bill does

Creates a grant program at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to support community-based programs that divert youth from entering or re-entering the juvenile justice system, expands consolidated juvenile services to include providing effective services and referrals to diverted and referred youth, requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop common definitions, outcome measures, and data collection methods for both informal and formal diversion programs Removes juvenile diversions from what is considered “criminal history." Prohibits a juvenile diversion agreement from being entered into for an offense that was committed after a juvenile’s eighteenth birthday and prohibits parents and guardians from declining to enter into or preventing a juvenile from entering into a diversion agreement.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 5, 2025
  91 yea · 2 nay · 5 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 14, 2025
  45 yea · 4 nay

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