Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Requires States that receive certain DOJ Justice Assistance funds to submit quarterly, anonymized, aggregate reports to the Attorney General on inmates who are pregnant or give birth in custody. Reports must include demographics, pregnancy testing and prenatal care timing, pregnancy outcomes, use of restraints, postpartum care and restrictive housing data.
Support: transparency and maternal health (left/center) vs federal coercion concern (right).
Technocratic, grant‑condition approach and limited fiscal impact make House floor passage plausible but not guaranteed.
Requires States that receive certain DOJ Justice Assistance funds to submit quarterly, anonymized, aggregate reports to the Attorney General on inmates who are pregnant or give birth in custody.
Reports must include demographics, pregnancy testing and prenatal care timing, pregnancy outcomes, use of restraints, postpartum care and restrictive housing data.
Noncompliance can trigger up to a 10% reduction in specified Byrne/Justice Assistance grant funds; the Attorney General must publish reports, study the data, and report findings to Congress within two years.
Narrow, administratively focused bill with modest costs and compromise elements; moderate bipartisan appeal but procedural Senate hurdles and stakeholder pushback create uncertainty.
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Support: transparency and maternal health (left/center) vs federal coercion concern (right).
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Support: transparency and maternal health (left/center) vs federal coercion concern (right).
Likely to view the bill positively as a transparency and oversight measure addressing maternal and neonatal health in custody.
Sees data collection as a first step toward accountability and reforms to reduce harmful practices like restraint and restrictive housing.
May note the bill does not itself mandate care standards, but values the reporting and AG study.
Views the bill as a pragmatic, data-driven measure to improve oversight while avoiding heavy federal mandates.
Appreciates the anonymized reporting, public transparency, and a study to guide policy.
Concerned about administrative burdens, clarity of definitions, and discretionary funding penalties.
Likely skeptical of federal coercion using grant penalties and increased federal reporting requirements on state and local corrections.
May support transparency in principle but views this as federal overreach into state criminal justice operations.
Worried about bureaucracy, privacy risks despite anonymization, and potential politicization of the data.
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Narrow, administratively focused bill with modest costs and compromise elements; moderate bipartisan appeal but procedural Senate hurdles and stakeholder pushback create uncertainty.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Support: transparency and maternal health (left/center) vs federal coercion concern (right).
Narrow, administratively focused bill with modest costs and compromise elements; moderate bipartisan appeal but procedural Senate hurdles a…
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