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2021 SESSION
SB 1300 Inmates; Board of Local and Regional Jails to review services provided during pregnancy, etc.
Introduced by: Barbara A. Favola | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Board of Local and Regional Jails; review services provided to inmates during pregnancy, pregnancy termination, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery; report. Directs the Board of Local and Regional Jails (the Board), in consultation with a stakeholder work group, to (i) identify and analyze all obstetric and gynecological services and any other services provided by local and regional jails to inmates during pregnancy, pregnancy termination, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery; (ii) compare such services to best practices recommended by the American Correctional Association, American Jail Association, National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and (iii) develop recommendations to ensure that proper services are provided to inmates during pregnancy, pregnancy termination, labor and delivery, and postpartum recovery. The bill directs the Board to (a) post its findings and recommendations on its website and report such findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services, House Committee for Courts of Justice, and House Committee on Public Safety by July 1, 2022, and (b) adopt regulations consistent with its findings and recommendations.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102560D
- 01/11/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/22/21 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 01/22/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/27/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N)
- 01/28/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/01/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote