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2023 SESSION
SB 994 Corrections Ombudsman, Office of the Department of; created, report.
Introduced by: David W. Marsden | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman; created. Creates the Office of the Department of Corrections Ombudsman headed by an Ombudsman who is selected by a Corrections Oversight Committee, also created by the bill. The Committee is made up of four members of the General Assembly and 11 nonlegislative citizen members who monitor the activities of the Ombudsman and the Department of Corrections. The bill provides the Office's authority to conduct inspections at least once every three years and more often when warranted of Department or Board of Local and Regional Jails facilities and requires the Office to establish confidential telephone hotlines and online forms for concerns, complaints, and inquiries by inmates, their family members and advocates, and Department employees and contractors. In addition, the bill requires the Committee to conduct quarterly public hearings and submit an annual report to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Public Safety, and the Director of the Department. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102476D pdf | impact statement
- 02/06/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23102476D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House committee amendments reported
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102476D
- 01/06/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/20/23 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/23 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/06/23 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/06/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB994E
- 02/06/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23102476D-E
- 02/06/23 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/23 House: Read first time
- 02/08/23 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/08/23 House: Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/09/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/23 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/10/23 House: Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/10/23 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 02/13/23 House: Tabled in Appropriations (11-Y 10-N)