119th Congress
S. 916
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Patty Murray(D-WA)
- Introduced
- Mar 10, 2025
- Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Official text
- Introduced in Senate · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (22)
Original cosponsors (20)
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Added later (2)
- Jack Reed (D-RI) · Mar 12, 2025
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · Mar 12, 2025
Summary
No Congressional Research Service summary yet. CRS usually publishes one a few weeks after a bill is introduced.
Official title: A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant and postpartum women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment, and for other purposes.
Latest action(Mar 10, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Mar 10, 2025 · Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. - Mar 10, 2025
Introduced in Senate