Corrections
South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Prohibit the expenditure of certain funds appropriated for purposes related to the construction of a prison facility. [SB-204]
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Prohibit the expenditure of certain funds appropriated for purposes related to the construction of a prison facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Jensen
Recalled From Committee (rule 7-7) Senate State Affairs, Passed S.j. 369 on 02/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring - Report Alterations and Data Collection [HB-1125]
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[Data Privacy ]
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Requiring the Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring to study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding certain policies, practices, and responses when a person violates a condition of home detention monitoring; and requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to collect and report to the Workgroup certain data on or before September 1 each year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Clippinger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 455 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services – Medication–Assisted Treatment Funding [HB-1084]
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Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the annual budget bill; altering the requirements for a certain report; authorizing funds in the Opioid Restitution Fund to be used for medication-assisted treatment programs; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole [HB-1123]
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Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of an incarcerated individual when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures for assessing parole requests by certain incarcerated individuals; repealing the authorization for the Governor to disapprove of a decision by the Commission to grant medical parole; requiring the Commission to conduct a certain risk assessment at a certain time; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 103 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Judicial and Public Safety for Service Members Act [HB-1060]
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Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and real property laws to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Crutchfield
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 262 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Election Law – Pretrial Detainees – Absentee Ballots [SB-991]
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Requiring the State Board of Elections or the local boards of elections to automatically send an absentee ballot to each registered voter in pretrial detention in a correctional facility without the voter having to submit an absentee ballot application.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Maryland Parole Commission - Improvements in Transparency and Equity [HB-1147]
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Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to contain certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to a certain incarcerated individual at a certain time, rather than allow the incarcerated individual to examine the documents on request; requiring the Commission to document, state on the record, provide to an incarcerated individual, and make available to the public certain information; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the revocation of an occupational license from certain license holders and the issuance of an occupational license to certain applicants with criminal convictions. [SB-1080]
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Relating to the revocation of an occupational license from certain license holders and the issuance of an occupational license to certain applicants with criminal convictions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Turner
Effective Immediately on 05/27/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain searches of female inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [SB-1078]
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Relating to certain searches of female inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Sponsored by: Sen. Royce West
Co-author Authorized on 03/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Medication-Assisted Treatment Funding [SB-942]
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[Overdose Prevention ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
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Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the annual budget bill; altering the requirements for a certain report; authorizing funds in the Opioid Restitution Fund to be used for medication-assisted treatment programs; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. (judicial Proceedings) on 02/04/2025
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Rename the Department of Corrections. [SB-192]
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Rename the Department of Corrections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sue Lucas-Peterson
House Of Representatives Do Pass, Failed, Yeas 14, Nays 55. H.j. 442 on 03/03/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the award of diligent participation credit to defendants confined in a state jail felony facility. [HB-2341]
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Relating to the award of diligent participation credit to defendants confined in a state jail felony facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alma Allen
Received From The House on 04/29/2025
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Repeal authorization for the use of medical cannabis by a probationer or parolee. [HB-1209]
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Repeal authorization for the use of medical cannabis by a probationer or parolee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phil Jensen
Withdrawn At The Request Of The Prime Sponsor H.j. 197 on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services - Extension of Report Deadline and Task Force [SB-811]
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Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 2027.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 112 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Private Detention Facilities - Deprivation of Rights, Privileges, and Immunities [HB-1011]
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Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state or federal law; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to investigate a violation of the Act; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to file a civil action against a person for a violation of the Act under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/24/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to changing the eligibility for release on parole of certain inmates serving sentences for trafficking offenses involving child victims and disabled individuals. [HB-2306]
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Relating to changing the eligibility for release on parole of certain inmates serving sentences for trafficking offenses involving child victims and disabled individuals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Raymond
Effective On 9/1/25 on 06/20/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Mail Theft [HB-77]
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An Act making the theft of mail or an article within mail theft in the second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. DeLena Johnson
Jud Rpt 4dp 1am on 04/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Private Detention Facilities - Deprivation of Rights, Privileges, and Immunities [SB-786]
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Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured or protected by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state or federal law; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to investigate a violation of the Act; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to file a civil action against a person for a violation of the Act under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to personal bond offices, to the notification provided to a judge regarding tampering with an electronic monitoring device while released on bond or community supervision, and to the availability of certain information regarding a person required to submit to an electronic monitoring program or being supervised by a community supervision and corrections department. [SB-1020]
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Relating to personal bond offices, to the notification provided to a judge regarding tampering with an electronic monitoring device while released on bond or community supervision, and to the availability of certain information regarding a person required to submit to an electronic monitoring program or being supervised by a community supervision and corrections department.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Huffman
Effective On 9/1/25 on 05/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Restrictive Housing [SB-702]
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[Law Enforcement ]
Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create the least restrictive environment necessary for certain purposes; prohibiting the placement of a certain member of a vulnerable population in restrictive housing for any period of time; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025