CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6009
Chapter 291, Laws of 2024
68th Legislature
2024 Regular Session
HOG-TYING—USE BY PEACE OFFICERS
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2024
Passed by the Senate March 4, 2024 CERTIFICATE
Yeas 49 Nays 0
I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of
the Senate of the State of
DENNY HECK Washington, do hereby certify that
President of the Senate the attached is ENGROSSED
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6009 as
passed by the Senate and the House
of Representatives on the dates
Passed by the House February 28, 2024 hereon set forth.
Yeas 89 Nays 7
SARAH BANNISTER
LAURIE JINKINS
Secretary
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Approved March 26, 2024 1:32 PM FILED
March 27, 2024
Secretary of State
JAY INSLEE State of Washington
Governor of the State of Washington
 ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6009
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed Legislature - 2024 Regular Session
State of Washington 68th Legislature 2024 Regular Session
By Senate Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Trudeau,
Lovick, Frame, Hasegawa, Nguyen, Nobles, Saldaña, Stanford, Valdez,
Wellman, and C. Wilson)
READ FIRST TIME 01/26/24.
1 AN ACT Relating to prohibiting the use of hog-tying; adding a new
2 section to chapter 10.116 RCW; and creating a new section.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
4 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds it is imperative
5 that our criminal justice systems, including the law enforcement
6 profession, must secure public trust and ensure accountability. In
7 order to do so, the legislature finds that it is important to
8 discontinue practices and tactics that dehumanize and create
9 unnecessary risk of harm and/or death to the people they serve.
10 Additionally, it is important that law enforcement is using up-to-
11 date tactics that come with adequate training from the criminal
12 justice training commission to ensure continuity and oversight in the
13 standards applied across the profession. This includes tactics that
14 comply with the model use of force policies put forward by our
15 state's attorney general.
16 The legislature finds that, in the quest to ensure that all
17 communities are and feel safe, it is important to take guidance from
18 published model policies, comport with statewide standards and
19 training on restraint tactics, and prohibit hog-tying and other
20 similar tactics that are inhumane, outdated, and have led to the
21 unnecessary loss of human life.
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 1 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 10.116
2 RCW to read as follows:
3 (1) A peace officer is prohibited from:
4 (a) Hog-tying a person; or
5 (b) Assisting in putting a person into a hog-tie.
6 (2) Hog-tying shall constitute the use of excessive force for the
7 purposes of RCW 10.93.190.
8 (3) This section shall not be interpreted to prohibit the use of
9 any other alternative restraint product or device that is
10 administered to reduce the incidence of respiratory fatigue or
11 positional asphyxia if such restraint product or device does not
12 violate this section.
13 (4) For purposes of this section, "hog-tie" or "hog-tying" means
14 fastening together bound or restrained ankles to bound or restrained
15 wrists. "Hog-tie" or "hog-tying" does not include the following:
16 (a) Use of transport chains or waist chains to transport
17 prisoners; or
18 (b) Use of a product or device that does not require bound or
19 restrained ankles to be fastened together to bound or restrained
20 wrists.
Passed by the Senate March 4, 2024.
Passed by the House February 28, 2024.
Approved by the Governor March 26, 2024.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2024.
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