Pennsylvania legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Pennsylvania HR165: A Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the status of the pretrial detention practices and pretrial detainee populations in this Commonwealth.
Status: In committee, October 6, 2026
What the bill says
A resolution Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the status of the pretrial detention practices and pretrial detainee populations in this Commonwealth.
From the introduced text, April 1, 2025:
A RESOLUTION Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the status of the pretrial detention practices and pretrial detainee populations in this Commonwealth. WHEREAS, Pretrial detainees comprise approximately one-third of the total incarcerated population of this Commonwealth; and WHEREAS, Pennsylvania's county jails house approximately 20,000 pretrial detainees; and WHEREAS, Pretrial detainees comprise approximately 80% of county jail populations; and WHEREAS, County jail records, requested through the right-to- know legal mechanism, suggest that the average pretrial detention duration is at least 50 days and likely close to 150 days; and WHEREAS, Pretrial detention can lead to the loss of an individual's job or home; and WHEREAS, Pretrial detainees often suffer from strained or lost relationships with loved ones because of their incarceration; and WHEREAS, Commonwealth or county government action that leads directly to the suffering of an individual, particularly an individual not yet tried, sentenced or found guilty, should be minimized, undertaken with diligence and cited, recorded and made available to the public in the form of accessible records; and WHEREAS, Pretrial detention is enormously expensive to taxpayers, with the cost of jailing a single pretrial detainee for one year surpassing the State's per capita income and the total annual pretrial detention cost approaching $1 billion; and WHEREAS, Aside from the Department of …
Sponsors
- Mary Jo Daley (D, 148) · primary sponsor
- Maureen Madden (D, 115)
- Robert FREEMAN (D, 136)
- Tarik Khan (D, 194)
- Carol Hill-Evans (D, 95)
- Christopher Pielli (D, 156)
- Joseph Hohenstein (D, 177)
- Benjamin Sanchez (D, 153)
- Mandy Steele (D, 33)
- Roni Green (D, 190)
Latest actions
- : Laid on the table (Pursuant to House Rule 71), Oct. 6, 2026
- : Removed from table, June 26, 2026
- : Laid on the table (Pursuant to House Rule 71), Dec. 15, 2025
- : Reported as committed, Sept. 23, 2025
- : Referred to JUDICIARY, April 1, 2025
Votes
- House Judiciary: Report Bill As Committed (September 22, 2025): 14 yea, 12 nay, passed
Subjects: JUDICIARY
Common questions
- What is HR165?
- HR165 is a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): A Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the status of the pretrial detention practices and pretrial detainee populations in this Commonwealth.
- What does HR165 do?
- In its own words: A resolution Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on the status of the pretrial detention practices and pretrial detainee populations in this Commonwealth.
- What is the status of HR165?
- In committee as of October 6, 2026. Latest action: Laid on the table (Pursuant to House Rule 71), Oct. 6, 2026 (October 6, 2026).
- Who sponsored HR165?
- Mary Jo Daley (D, 148), with 9 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HR165?
- On the Pennsylvania Legislature website: https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hr165
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