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HB1648

Correctional facilities, state; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Kaye Kory (D)

Session:
2020 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. State correctional facilities; treatment of prisoners known to be pregnant or who are parents of minor children.

Provides for rules and regulations regarding the treatment, control, and education of prisoners known to be pregnant and prisoners who are primary caretakers of minor children in state correctional facilities. The bill requires the Department of Corrections to include in the training it provides for state correctional officers and juvenile correctional officers who may have contact with pregnant inmates training on the general care of pregnant women and the impact of restraints, restrictive housing or solitary confinement, and body cavity searches on such inmates. The bill requires the Director of the Department of Corrections, after accounting for safety, security, and operational factors, to place prisoners who are known primary caretakers of minor children in a facility as close as possible to such children. The bill also requires correctional officers, when (i) contact is required between such officer and an inmate, (ii) the inmate is required to disrobe, and (iii) the officer is not the same gender as the inmate, to submit a written report to the official in charge of the state or local correctional facility within 72 hours following the incident containing the justification for the suspension of the requirement that such incident occur only during the period of a declared emergency. The bill further authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to prescribe reasonable rules regarding visitation that include authorization of visitation by minor dependents of prisoners who are primary caretakers of minor children with Level 1 or Level 2 security classifications. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/16/2020 - House: Presented and ordered printed 20100777D
  • 01/16/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
  • 01/22/2020 - House: Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
  • 02/06/2020 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/06/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
  • 02/07/2020 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (20-Y 2-N)
  • 02/07/2020 - House: Committee substitute printed 20107870D-H1
  • 02/09/2020 - House: Read first time
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Read second time
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107870D-H1
  • 02/10/2020 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1648H1
  • 02/11/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N)
  • 02/11/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N)
  • 02/12/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/12/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
  • 02/14/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1648H1)
  • 02/17/2020 - Senate: Assigned Rehab sub: Social Service and Corrections
  • 02/21/2020 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
  • 02/24/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/25/2020 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 03/02/2020 - House: Enrolled
  • 03/02/2020 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1648ER)
  • 03/02/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1648ER)
  • 03/02/2020 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/03/2020 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/12/2020 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
  • 03/12/2020 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
  • 03/31/2020 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/20)
  • 03/31/2020 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)

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