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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)"
+description: "Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 187"
+citation: "Maryland SB 187 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Washington"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-10-10"
+last_action: "2026-05-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6887de4-18c9-4dc5-90c3-70257aee01e6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0187?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "25d8e87e2ddf6dda0ad7dfc5bc2540d8f3159a6f66290ce7eb2fe3dd2a1f35e8"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 187 (2026) — Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_876_sb0187e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0187e.pdf)
+3. **First - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0187f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Reentry Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0187t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **31–12** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **101–36** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **32–13** (pass) · upper
+- Motion to limit debate — **32–13** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-10-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-13** Hearing 1/28 at 11:00 a.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
+- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-24** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-26** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-27** Hearing canceled
+- **2026-03-27** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-30** Reassigned to Judiciary Appropriations
+- **2026-04-02** Hearing canceled (Judiciary)
+- **2026-04-02** Hearing 4/02 at 2:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Motion Limit Debate (Senator King) Adopted
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-31** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 876 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6887de4-18c9-4dc5-90c3-70257aee01e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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