Correctional facilities: women’s prisons.

Summary

The bill adds a new Penal Code section that forces the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create a secure housing area for transgender women at each women’s prison. It also bars anyone required to register as a sex offender—except biological women—from being placed in a women’s prison. The goal is to improve safety and reduce sexual violence for inmates who were assigned female at birth.

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Vote

April 29 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 944.) Reconsideration granted. · Apr 29, 2025

Hearings

• Public Safety Committee Hearing
  Public Safety · Apr 29, 2025

History

1. Feb 2, 2026Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2. Apr 29, 2025April 29 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 944.) Reconsideration granted.
3. Apr 11, 2025Set for hearing April 29.
4. Apr 2, 2025Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
5. Mar 26, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
6. Feb 19, 2025Referred to Com. on RLS.
7. Feb 11, 2025From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
8. Feb 10, 2025Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

• Grove · sponsor
• Dahle

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