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IntroducedOct 10, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 23, 2026
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Passed HouseApr 13, 2026
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Became Law
Maryland Senate Bill
Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Apr 13, 2026: Passed Enrolled
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 187
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 101
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Cullison
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Stinnett
- Acevero
- Davis
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Taveras
- Addison
- Ebersole
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Taylor
- Allen
- Edelson
- Kerr
- Roberts
- Terrasa
- Alston
- Embry
- Korman
- Rogers
- Toles
- Amprey
- Fair
- Lehman
- Rosenberg
- Turner
- Bagnall
- Feldmark
- Lewis
- Ross
- Valderrama
- Barnes
- Fennell
- Long, J.
- Ruff
- Vogel
- Bartlett
- Foley
- Lopez
- Ruth
- Watson
- Behler
- Forbes
- Martinez
- Sample-Hughes
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- McCaskill
- Schindler
- Wilkins
- Boafo
- Guyton
- Mireku-North
- Schmidt
- Williams
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Moon
- Shetty
- Wilson
- Cardin
- Harrison
- Moreno
- Simmons
- Wims
- Chang
- Healey
- Odom
- Simpson
- Wolek
- Charkoudian
- Hill
- Palakovich Carr
- Smith
- Woods
- Clippinger
- Holmes
- Pasteur
- Solomon
- Woorman
- Coley
- Ivey
- Patterson
- Spiegel
- Wu
- Conaway
- Johnson, A.
- Phillips
- Stein
- Young
- Crosby
- Johnson, S.
- Pruski
- Stewart
- Ziegler
- Crutchfield
NO: 36
ABSENT: 1
NOT VOTING: 3
- Bouchat
- Nkongolo
- White Holland
Actions
- Apr 13, 2026 | Senate
- Motion Limit Debate (Senator King) Adopted (32-13)
- Senate Concurs House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (32-13)
- Passed Enrolled
- Apr 13, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (101-36)
- Apr 10, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- Favorable with Amendments {293323/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Apr 02, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled (Judiciary)
- Hearing 4/02 at 2:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
- Mar 30, 2026 | House
- Reassigned to Judiciary Appropriations
- Mar 27, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- Mar 26, 2026 | House
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- Mar 24, 2026 | House
- Referred Judiciary
- Mar 23, 2026 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (31-12)
- Mar 20, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable with Amendments {653123/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Jan 13, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing 1/28 at 11:00 a.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
- Jan 14, 2026 | Senate
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Budget and Taxation
- Oct 10, 2025 | Senate
- Pre-filed
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated IndividualsPDF
- Amendments {653123/1 Adopted (Senate)PDF
- Text - Third - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Reentry Services - Female Incarcerated IndividualsPDF
- Amendments {293323/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Enrolled - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Budget and TaxationPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - JudiciaryPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - AppropriationsPDF
- Video: Judicial ProceedingsHTML
- Video: JudiciaryHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Towne, Ezra
- JPR Testimony, INFO -- Clark, Tiffany (Office of the Attorney General)
- JPR Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Stein, Kate (Montgomery County Women's Democratic Club (WDC))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jordan, Lisae C (Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MCASA))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Jasen, Debi
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Morgan, Jessica (Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women (MLAW))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Charlotte (Trans Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Downs, Kirsten (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Braveheart, T. Shekhinah
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Boiman, Tiffany (Montgomery County Commission for Women)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- OMalley, Catherine (Women's Law Center)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Elliott, Robyn
- JPR Testimony, INFO -- Woolums, John (DGS)
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Carpenter, Crystal
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Dickerson, Taylor (Maryland Psychological Association)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, INFO -- Davidson, Jason (DPSCS)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- King, Roxann (American Association of University Women of Maryland (AAUW MD))
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Patinella, Frank (ACLU of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Washington, Mary (The Senate of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Towne, Ezra
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Towne, Ezra
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Finigan-Carr, Nadine (UMB: Center for Violence Prevention)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Morgan, Jessica (Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women (MLAW))
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Torrence, Rachel
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Jasen, Debi
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Agarin, Ufuoma (Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Krieger, Betsy (Be the Change Bmore)
- JUD Testimony, FAV -- Downs, Kirsten (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JUD Testimony, INFO -- Davidson, Jason (DPSCS)
- JUD Testimony, INFO -- Woolums, John (DGS)
- JUD Testimony, INFO -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
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