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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 1001

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Relating to: the use of solitary confinement in prisons. (FE)

Corrections, department of Legislative audit bureau Prison Privacy

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to develop evidence-based

criteria for confining a prison inmate in a solitary cell. This bill also requests the

Legislative Audit Bureau to perform a financial and performance evaluation audit

of the use of solitary confinement in prisons. If the bureau performs the audit, it must

file its report by July 1, 2017.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Brostoff (D) , Considine (D) , Goyke (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Goyke, Barnes, Brostoff, Zamarripa, Zepnick, Spreitzer and Considine

  2. Mar 15, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1