Encourages the department of social and health services to develop, on a phased-in basis, alternative locations and increased access to competency restoration services under chapter 10.77 RCW (criminally insane) for individuals who do not require in-patient psychiatric hospitalization level services.

Prohibits new secure facilities for inpatient treatment of defendants ordered to receive competency restoration from being sited within five hundred feet of the facilities and grounds of a public or private school.