Maryland Senate Bill 659 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-06 - Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishing the Task Force on Practices and Procedures on Solitary Confinement; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study specified issues related to solitary confinement in the correctional system of the State and report its recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2017; etc.

Task Force on Practices and Procedures on Solitary Confinement

Sen. Joanne Benson [D]

Sen. William Smith [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-06	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
2017-02-21	Senate	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-03	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0659?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0659f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0659.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0659_jpr.pdf