Delaware House Bill 258 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-5)
Status: Introduced on June 30 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-29 - Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill allows the Department of Correction to implement prison nurseries, which would allow women inmates that give birth during their time incarcerated the option of raising their infant up to the age of 18 months. Studies have shown that prison nurseries allow a mother and child to bond during this critical time of infancy and in turn lowers recidivism rates of these women inmates. This bill would further take the burden off of the foster care system and reduce the damage done between the mother and child relationship as a result of imprisonment.

An Act To Amend Title 11 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Prisons And Prisoners.

Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. David McBride [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]
Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Sen. Colin Bonini [R]
Sen. Elizabeth Lockman [D]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]
Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]	Rep. Andria Bennett [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. William Bush [D]
Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Rep. Franklin Cooke [D]	Rep. Timothy Dukes [R]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. Sean Matthews [D]
Rep. Michael Ramone [R]	Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf [D]	Rep. Raymond Seigfried [D]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]
Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-29		Assigned to Appropriations Committee in House
2019-06-30		Reported Out of Committee (Corrections) in House with 5 On Its Merits
2019-06-30		Introduced in House and Assigned to Corrections Committee

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47887
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47887&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB258