Florida Senate Bill 1426 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on April 30 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-30 - Died in Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Protecting the Dignity of Women and Infants Act"; requiring that every female who is arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe, upon her request; requiring that each municipal or county detention facility notify each arrested female upon booking of her right to request a pregnancy test; requiring that, if a pregnant woman is convicted of a crime and sentenced to incarceration of any length, the sentencing judge provide the pregnant woman the opportunity to defer the imposed sentence until a certain time after delivery, etc.

Pregnant Women in Custody

Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Sen. Shevrin Jones [D]

2021-03-09 - Senate - Senate Criminal Justice (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-30	Senate	Died in Judiciary
2021-03-11	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
2021-03-11	Senate	Now in Judiciary
2021-03-11	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2021-03-09	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
2021-03-04	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/09/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
2021-03-02	Senate	Introduced
2021-02-24	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Appropriations
2021-02-18	Senate	Filed

H1115 (Similar To) 2021-04-30 - Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
907	033		Amended Code	See Bill Text
925	13		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/BillText/c1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/Amendment/105058/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/Analyses/2021s01426.pre.cj.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/Analyses/2021s01426.cj.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1426/Vote/2021-03-09%200330PM~S01426%20Vote%20Record.PDF