Legislation
- Title
- Correctional Facilities - Pregnant Inmates - Medical Care
- Sponsored by
- Delegates Dumais, Queen, Anderson, Angel, Atterbeary, Barkley, Barron, Clippinger, Cullison, Davis, Fraser-Hidalgo, Frick, Gibson, Hayes, Hettleman, Hill, Jalisi, Kaiser, Kelly, Korman, Kramer, Lam, J. Lewis, R. Lewis, Lierman, Luedtke, McIntosh, A. Miller, Moon, Morales, Morhaim, Mosby, Patterson, Pena-Melnyk, Platt, Reznik, Robinson, Rosenberg, Sample-Hughes, Sanchez, Valderrama, Waldstreicher, A. Washington, M. Washington, Wilkins, and K. Young
- Status
- Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 827
- Analysis
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)
Synopsis
Requiring each local correctional facility and each correctional facility in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to have a policy in place regarding the medical care of pregnant inmates that addresses certain matters including access to child placement resources; requiring the managing official of each facility to provide the written policy to an inmate at the time of a positive pregnancy test; requiring the Maryland Commission on Correctional Standards to routinely review each facility's policy; etc.
Committees
- Original:
- Judiciary Click to view Recorded Media
- Opposite:
- Judicial Proceedings
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