HB861
Pregnant & postpartum inmates; reporting requirements of state, regional, & local correctional fac.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 14, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Chief Patron:
Rae Cousins (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Reporting requirements of state, regional, and local correctional facilities; pregnant and postpartum inmates.
Requires the warden or other official in charge of a state correctional facility and the sheriff in charge of the local correctional facility, or his designee, or the jail superintendent of the regional correctional facility, or his designee, to compile a quarterly summary of all of the following and submit ... (More) such summary to the Director of the Department of Corrections or State Board of Local and Regional Jails, as applicable, each quarter: (i) the number of prisoners known to be pregnant in the facility, (ii) the number of prisoners in postpartum recovery in the facility, (iii) the number of women prisoners in the facility, (iv) the total number of prisoners in the facility, (v) the number of deaths of prisoners known to be pregnant in the facility, and (vi) the number of deaths of prisoners in postpartum recovery in the facility. The bill also requires such summary to be submitted to the Maternal Mortality Review Team and the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/13/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26103318D
- 01/13/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/23/2026 - House: Assigned HMPPS sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/27/2026 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/29/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 01/29/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2026 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/30/2026 - House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/2026 - House: Committee substitute printed 26106507D-H1
- 02/03/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/04/2026 - House: committee substitute agreed to
- 02/04/2026 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/05/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/06/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB861)
- 02/20/2026 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendments agreed to
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/06/2026 - House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/13/2026 - House: Enrolled
- 03/13/2026 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB861ER)
- 03/13/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB861)
- 03/13/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/13/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/14/2026 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
- 03/14/2026 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
