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2008 SESSION
SB 28 Child-friendly visiting rooms; state correctional facilities may provide.
Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Child-friendly visiting rooms in state correctional facilities. Permits each state correctional facility to provide child-friendly visiting rooms to promote positive bonds between incarcerated parents and their children. Any program providing child-friendly visiting rooms shall be administered by the Department of Corrections and may include the use of support services from community-based and nonprofit organizations. The Department shall promulgate regulations governing the provision and use of child-friendly visiting rooms. The bill also provides civil and criminal immunity to the Department resulting from liability arising from the operation of child-friendly visiting rooms, unless it is proven that the Department acted in bad faith or with malicious intent.
FULL TEXT
- 12/17/07 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088129276 pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 085699276-S1 pdf
HISTORY
- 12/17/07 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088129276
- 12/17/07 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/01/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 085699276-S1
- 02/01/08 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/08 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/08 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/08 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 085699276-S1
- 02/05/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB28S1
- 02/06/08 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/08 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/12/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/12/08 House: Read first time
- 02/12/08 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
- 03/03/08 House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety