HB861
Pregnant & postpartum inmates; reporting requirements of state, regional, & local correctional fac.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
Feb. 6, 2026
House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB861)
Chief Patron:
Rae Cousins (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. 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 monthly 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 month: (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 in the facility, (vi) the number of deaths of prisoners known to be pregnant in the facility, and (vii) 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)
