Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1198: Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Pr
Status: Introduced, March 17, 2025
Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to report certain information to certain entities; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) FOR the purpose of altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by a certain date…
From the engrossed text, March 13, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) FOR the purpose of altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by a certain date; requiring the Social Work Unit within the Department to report certain information to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before a certain date; authorizing the use of certain funds for the cost of implementing comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services up to a certain amount; requiring the Department to report certain information to certain legislative committees; and generally relating to comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services for female incarcerated individuals. EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. Underlining indicates amendments to bill. Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. *hb1198* HOUSE BILL 1198 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Correctional Services Section 3-301 and 3-303 Annotated Code of Maryland (2017 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws …