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2021 SESSION
SB 1301 Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.
Introduced by: Joseph D. Morrissey | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more per day for an adult or for 17 hours or more per day for a juvenile, other than for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102557D pdf
- 01/29/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103986D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21103986D-ES1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102557D
- 01/11/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/29/21 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (8-Y 5-N 1-A)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103986D-S1
- 01/29/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (12-Y 4-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21103986D-S1
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/04/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1301ES1
- 02/04/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21103986D-ES1
- 02/05/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 15-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Passed Senate (23-Y 16-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Public Safety by voice vote