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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 829

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: placement of inmates in solitary confinement.

Corrections department of Mental health Prison

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 the placement of any prison inmate with a serious mental

illness in solitary confinement for more than ten days, and requires that a mental

health evaluation be performed on any inmate before he or she is placed in solitary

confinement. The bill also requires that the Department of Corrections evaluate all

prison inmates being held in solitary confinement on the bill's effective date within

90 days and relocate any inmates for whom continued solitary confinement is

impermissible.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D)

16 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Cabrera (D) , Considine (D) , Crowley (D) , L. Myers (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Zamarripa (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 20, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Johnson, L. Taylor and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Crowley, Bowen, Anderson, Billings, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, L. Myers, Neubauer, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, C. Taylor and Zamarripa

  2. Feb 20, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Mar 25, 2020 · Senate

    Representative Ohnstad added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1