---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Facilities - Restrictive Housing - Pregnant Inmates"
description: "Correctional Facilities - Restrictive Housing - Pregnant Inmates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 809"
citation: "Maryland SB 809 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Correctional Institutions", "Discipline", "Diseases", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Notices", "Pregnancy", "Prisoners", "Public Safety and Correctional Services", "Department of", "Reports", "Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/492f0756-285e-4d57-adf4-ef03aad4996d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB809&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a7acb2aafaa5764cd99b63a6830472d70eeaacb6bfe3820c13f075857148282b"
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 809 (2019) — Correctional Facilities - Restrictive Housing - Pregnant Inmates

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0809f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/21 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {688778/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2019-04-05** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/492f0756-285e-4d57-adf4-ef03aad4996d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).