As used in this section and RCW 9A.44.193
and 9A.44.196:
(1) "Covered entity" means any public facility or private
facility whose primary purpose, at any time, is to provide for
the education, care, or recreation of a child or children,
including but not limited to community and recreational centers,
playgrounds, schools, swimming pools, and state or municipal
parks.
(2) "Child" means a person under the age of eighteen, unless
the context clearly indicates that the term is otherwise defined
in statute.
(3) "Public facility" means a facility operated by a unit of
local or state government, or by a nonprofit organization.
(4) "Schools" means public and private schools, but does not
include home-based instruction as defined in RCW 28A.225.010.
(5) "Covered offender" means a person required to register
under RCW 9A.44.130 who is eighteen years of age or older, who is
not under the jurisdiction of the juvenile rehabilitation
authority or currently serving a special sex offender disposition
alternative, whose risk level classification has been assessed at
a risk level II or a risk level III pursuant to RCW 72.09.345,
and who, at any time, has been convicted of one or more of the
following offenses:
(a) Rape of a child in the first, second, and third degree;
child molestation in the first, second, and third degree;
indecent liberties against a child under age fifteen; sexual
misconduct with a minor in the first and second degree; incest in
the first and second degree; luring with sexual motivation;
possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit
conduct; dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually
explicit conduct; bringing into the state depictions of minors
engaged in sexually explicit conduct; sexual exploitation of a
minor; communicating with a minor for immoral purposes;
*patronizing a juvenile prostitute;
(b) Any felony in effect at any time prior to March 20,
2006, that is comparable to an offense listed in (a) of this
subsection, including, but not limited to, statutory rape in the
first and second degrees [degree] and carnal knowledge;
(c) Any felony offense for which:
(i) There was a finding that the offense was committed with
sexual motivation; and
(ii) The victim of the offense was less than sixteen years
of age at the time of the offense;
(d) An attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit any of
the offenses listed in (a) through (c) of this subsection;
(e) Any conviction from any other jurisdiction which is
comparable to any of the offenses listed in (a) through (d) of
this subsection.
[2006 c 126 § 4; 2006 c 125 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The term "patronizing a juvenile prostitute" was changed to "commercial sexual abuse of a minor" by 2007 c 368 § 2.
Effective date -- 2006 c 126 §§ 1 and 3-7: See note following RCW 9A.44.130.
Intent -- 2006 c 125: "It is the intent of the legislature to give public and private entities that provide services to children the tools necessary to prevent convicted child sex offenders from contacting children when those children are within the legal premises of the covered public and private entities." [2006 c 126 § 3; 2006 c 125 § 1.]
Severability -- 2006 c 125: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [2006 c 125 § 6.]
Effective date -- 2006 c 125: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 20, 2006]." [2006 c 125 § 7.]