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SB 28
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SB 28 Child-friendly visiting rooms; state correctional facilities may provide.
Yvonne B. Miller

Summary as passed Senate: (all summaries)
Child-friendly visiting rooms in state correctional facilities.  Permits each state correctional facility to provide child-friendly visiting rooms to promote positive bonds between incarcerated parents and their children. Any program providing child-friendly visiting rooms shall be administered by the Department of Corrections and may include the use of support services from community-based and nonprofit organizations. The Department shall promulgate regulations governing the provision and use of child-friendly visiting rooms. The bill also provides civil and criminal immunity to the Department resulting from liability arising from the operation of child-friendly visiting rooms, unless it is proven that the Department acted in bad faith or with malicious intent.

Full text:
12/17/07  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088129276 (impact statement)
02/01/08  Senate: Committee substitute printed 085699276-S1

Status:
12/17/07  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088129276
12/17/07  Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
02/01/08  Senate: Committee substitute printed 085699276-S1
02/01/08  Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
02/04/08  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
02/05/08  Senate: Read second time
02/05/08  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
02/05/08  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 085699276-S1
02/05/08  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB28S1
02/06/08  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
02/06/08  Senate: Communicated to House
02/12/08  House: Placed on Calendar
02/12/08  House: Read first time
02/12/08  House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
03/03/08  House: Left in Militia, Police and Public Safety
 
 

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