Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah HB326: Pregnant and Postpartum Inmate Amendments
Status: Chaptered, March 24, 2026
This bill addresses statutes regarding pregnant and postpartum inmates.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Pregnant and Postpartum Inmate Amendments 2025 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Candice B. Pierucci Senate Sponsor: LONG TITLE General Description: This bill addresses statutes regarding pregnant and postpartum inmates. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - requires the Department of Corrections (the department) and the county jails to ensure that each female individual admitted to a correctional facility is tested for pregnancy; - requires the department and each county jail to collect certain parental information on inmates; - requires the department and each county jail to report to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice: - the number of known pregnant inmates in custody; and - the number of inmates in custody who are parents to a minor child; - amends the membership of the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board (the board); - extends the repeal date of the board; - requires a sentencing court, when considering whether to impose a sentence of imprisonment for a defendant with a minor child, to consider the potential harm that the incarceration could inflict on the child; and - makes technical and conforming changes. Money Appropriated in this Bill: None Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: AMENDS: 17-22-5 , as last amended by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapters 96, and 341 17-22-8 , as last amended by Laws …
Sponsors
- Pierucci, Candice B. (R, 49) · primary sponsor
- Stephanie Pitcher (D, 14)
Latest actions
- : Governor Signed
- : House/ to Governor
- : House/ received enrolled bill from Printing
- : House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- : Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- : Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- : Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- : House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
- : House/ received from Senate
- : Senate/ to House
Votes
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 25, 2025): 10 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation (February 14, 2025): 10 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House/ passed 3rd reading (February 5, 2025): 60 yea, 13 nay, passed
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 5, 2025): 9 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation (February 5, 2025): 9 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Arrest and Detention, Correctional Facilities, Judicial Operations, Parentage, Family, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Department of Corrections, Inmates
Common questions
- What is HB326?
- HB326 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2025 General Session): Pregnant and Postpartum Inmate Amendments.
- What does HB326 do?
- This bill addresses statutes regarding pregnant and postpartum inmates.
- What is the status of HB326?
- Chaptered as of March 24, 2026. Latest action: Governor Signed (March 24, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB326?
- Pierucci, Candice B. (R, 49), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB326?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0326.html
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