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$214,570,000 1 General Fund—Federal Appropriation. . . . . . . . . . (($29,733,000)) 2

$29,988,000 3 Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund—Federal 4 Appropriation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (($8,480,000)) 5

$8,515,000 6 TOTAL APPROPRIATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . (($422,300,000)) 7 $414,171,000 8 The appropriations in this subsection are subject to the 9 following conditions and limitations: 10 (a) The department of corrections shall contract with local and 11 tribal governments for jail capacity to house offenders who violate 12 the terms of their community supervision. A contract rate increase 13 may not exceed five percent each year. The department may negotiate 14 to include medical care of offenders in the contract rate if medical 15 payments conform to the department's offender health plan and 16 pharmacy formulary, and all off-site medical expenses are preapproved 17 by department utilization management staff. If medical care of 18 offender is included in the contract rate, the contract rate may 19 exceed five percent to include the cost of that service. 20 (b) The department shall engage in ongoing mitigation strategies 21 to reduce the costs associated with community supervision violators, 22 including improvements in data collection and reporting and 23 alternatives to short-term confinement for low-level violators. 24 (c) $1,749,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal 25 year 2022 and $10,536,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 26 fiscal year 2023 are provided solely for reentry investments to 27 include reentry and discharge staffing. The staffing must provide 28 expanded reentry and discharge services to include, but not limited 29 to, transition services, preemployment testing, housing voucher 30 assistance, cognitive behavioral interventions, educational 31 programming, and community partnership programs. Of this amount 32 $7,394,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 33 2023 is provided solely for implementation of the plan to be 34 developed under subsection (1)(b) of this section. 35 (d) Within existing resources the department must update the 36 response to violations and new criminal activity policy to reflect 37 the savings assumed in this section as related to mandatory maximum 38 confinement sanctions. 39 p. 1106 ESSB 5187.SL