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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to regulations and policies for entering or using certain private spaces; authorizing a civil penalty. [HB-2062]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to regulations and policies for entering or using certain private spaces; authorizing a civil penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Janis Holt
Read First Time on 03/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Transfers to Federal Authorities - Undocumented Immigrants (Protecting Marylanders From Violent Crime Act of 2025) [HB-653]
[Crime ]
[Immigration ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a certain State or local correctional facility, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer a certain undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Correctional Facilities. [HB-1376]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in private, out-of-state correctional institutions. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD2)
Sponsored by: Rep. Amy A. Perruso
Introduced And Pass First Reading. on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Restrictive Housing [HB-647]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[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: Rep. Edith Jerry Patterson
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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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 [HB-646]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 113 on 04/22/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Approp: Mental Health Budget [HB-55]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
An Act making appropriations for the operating and capital expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rules
Effective Date(s) Of Law 7/1/25 on 07/30/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to abolishing the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee. [SB-860]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Relating to abolishing the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen
Effective Immediately on 06/20/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter. [HB-2017]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Leo-Wilson
Effective On 9/1/25 on 06/20/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Approp: Capital/supplemental/funds [HB-54]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
An Act making appropriations, including capital appropriations and other appropriations; making reappropriations; making appropriations to capitalize funds; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rules
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/22/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Approp: Operating Budget; Cap; Supp [HB-53]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government and for certain programs; capitalizing funds; amending appropriations; making supplemental appropriations; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rules
Signed Into Law 6/12 Chapter 10 Sla 25 on 06/16/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to providing inmates with certain documents on release or discharge; changing a fee. [HB-1969]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to providing inmates with certain documents on release or discharge; changing a fee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicole Collier
Placed On General State Calendar on 05/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Corrections [HB-485]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Adding programs, a day reporting program, an in-patient treatment program, and a pretrial release supervision program, that the St. Mary's County Sheriff is authorized to establish; repealing a requirement that the Sheriff or the Sheriff's designee collect the earnings of a certain individual participating in a certain program; and authorizing the Sheriff or the Sheriff's designee to direct an individual participating in a certain program to provide proof that the individual has made payments toward certain obligations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Morgan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 131 on 04/22/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Law Enforcement: Registry; Use Of Force [SB-42]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
An Act relating to the duties of the Alaska Police Standards Council; relating to municipal correctional officers and municipal correctional employees; making municipal police officers subject to police standards; relating to the duties of the Department of Public Safety; relating to reports of incidents of use of force by state and municipal police, probation, parole, pretrial services, and correctional officers and municipal correctional facility employees; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Sen. Elvira Gray-Jackson
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Library Agency - Family Literacy Pilot Program - Establishment [SB-378]
[Libraries ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to foster and strengthen family relationships by enabling certain incarcerated individuals to read aloud to their children by preparing a recording of a children's book; and requiring the State Library Agency to submit a report to the General Assembly on the results of the Program on or before December 1, 2028.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 368 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Transfers to Federal Authorities - Undocumented Immigrants (Protecting Marylanders From Violent Offenders Act of 2025) [SB-387]
[Crime ]
[Immigration ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/24/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the provision of services by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to offenders with intellectual or developmental disabilities. [SB-828]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Disabilities ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
Relating to the provision of services by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to offenders with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Parker
Read First Time on 02/13/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to automatic orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain misdemeanor defendants following successful completion of a period of deferred adjudication community supervision. [SB-814]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to automatic orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain misdemeanor defendants following successful completion of a period of deferred adjudication community supervision.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Perry
Co-author Authorized on 04/14/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to a hearing for an alleged violation of community supervision by a defendant and the manner in which that defendant is required to appear before the court. [SB-803]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to a hearing for an alleged violation of community supervision by a defendant and the manner in which that defendant is required to appear before the court.
Sponsored by: Sen. Royce West
Read First Time on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications [HB-401]
[Telecommunications ]
[Crime ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing certain requirements relating to the use of telephone equipment and telephone services by incarcerated individuals in State correctional facilities; prohibiting a State correctional facility and telephone service provider from charging an incarcerated individual for the indivdual's use of telephone equipment and services while in the facility; and establishing the Costs of Telephone Communications Advisory Committee to review prison and jail phone call programs and report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle K. Wilkins
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Transfers to Federal Authorities - Undocumented Immigrants (Protecting Marylanders From Violent Offenders Act of 2025) [HB-403]
[Crime ]
[Immigration ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025