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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 466

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Relating to: solitary confinement of an inmate under 18 years of age.

Juvenile detention facility

  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 prohibits an inmate under 18 years of age from being held in solitary

confinement for violating the rules of a juvenile detention facility, secured residential

care center for children and youth, juvenile correctional facility, prison, or jail. Under

current law, an inmate of a prison or jail may be held in solitary confinement under

the care and advice of a physician, but not over ten days, for violating the rules of the

prison or jail.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Goyke (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zepnick (D)

7 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D) , Risser (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Vinehout (D)

Full history

  1. Aug 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Young, Crowley, Bowen, Fields, Berceau, Goyke, Ohnstad, Pope, Subeck, C. Taylor, Wachs and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators L. Taylor, Carpenter, Larson, Miller, Risser and Vinehout

  2. Aug 7, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections

  3. Aug 14, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Spreitzer added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1