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Committee advances bill requiring pregnancy screening in jails, adds county reporting and advisory-board seats
Summary
The committee passed HB326 (second substitute as amended), which would require jails to offer pregnancy tests to detainees held more than 72 hours, add local reporting of pregnant inmates and inmate-parents to CCJJ, and extend the advisory board overseeing correctional postnatal policy to 2027.
Representative Perucci presented HB326 (second substitute) as a follow-up to work by the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board. He said the substitute incorporates stakeholder feedback and adds two members to the advisory board: a prosecutor and a defense representative.
The sponsor told the committee the second substitute requires county jails to offer pregnancy tests to people who will be detained longer…
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