Inmates; review of death in local correctional facilities, report.
Summary
Review of death of inmates in local correctional facilities; report. Provides that the Board of Corrections shall publish, on its website, an annual report summarizing the jail death reviews conducted by the Board within that year. The bill provides that such report shall include any trends or similarities among the deaths of inmates in local correctional facilities and present recommendations on policy changes to reduce the number of deaths in local correctional facilities.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Apr 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
May 2020
Introduced Dec 30, 2019
Signed May 21, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
37
Key actions
9
Committee
8
Amendments
5
May 21, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 1287 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Apr 22, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Apr 22, 2020
Introduced
Amendments specific and severable (20-Y 19-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
lower
Mar 2, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 21, 2020
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
lower
Feb 19, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 28, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended SB215E
upper
Jan 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Jan 28, 2020
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Jan 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment (12-Y 1-N)
upper
Dec 30, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
upper
Dec 30, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101821D
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David Suetterlein
RRepublican
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