---
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).