HB126
Local, regional, and community correctional facilities; access to counsel for inmates.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 14, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Chief Patron:
Katrina Callsen (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Local, regional, and community correctional facilities; access to counsel for inmates.
Requires the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to establish additional standards no later than January 1, 2027, to ensure access to legal counsel for inmates held in any local, regional, or community correctional facility and enumerates the standards that the Board shall include in such additional standards.-
Bill History
- 01/02/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26101260D
- 01/02/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/16/2026 - House: Assigned HPS sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/27/2026 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/29/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/2026 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/30/2026 - House: House committee offered
- 01/30/2026 - House: Reported from Public Safety with amendment(s) (17-Y 4-N)
- 02/03/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/04/2026 - House: committee amendments agreed to
- 02/04/2026 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/05/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (89-Y 8-N 0-A)
- 02/05/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB126)
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/06/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/20/2026 - Senate: Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services to Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 02/25/2026 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/25/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (37-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26108384D-S1
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 03/02/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (27-Y 13-N 0-A)
- 03/03/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB126)
- 03/04/2026 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (92-Y 4-N 0-A)
- 03/11/2026 - House: Enrolled
- 03/11/2026 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB126ER)
- 03/11/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB126)
- 03/11/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 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
