Bill > HB2093

This bill aims to improve community safety and justice in the civil commitment of sexually violent predators. It makes several key changes: - It requires less restrictive alternative placements for sexually violent predators to be owned, operated, or contracted by the Department of Social and Health Services, and establishes distance restrictions on the location of these placements relative to schools, child care facilities, bus stops, and other locations that may trigger risk behavior. - It modifies the "fair share principles" for release to require an equitable regional distribution of conditional release housing placements, rather than a county-by-county approach. - It requires the Department to solicit feedback from local communities and governments when identifying potential less restrictive alternative placement locations. - It creates a new Department of Social and Health Services position for a "special commitment center communications manager" to facilitate public outreach and notification. The bill also makes several other procedural changes to the civil commitment and conditional release process for sexually violent predators.