Title: Female Inmates with Newborn Children

Summary: Provides rights for female inmates with newborns.

Full Text:
An act relating to female inmates with newborn children; amending s. 944.24, F.S.; providing a definition; providing rights for female inmates with newborn children; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 944.24, Florida Statutes, to read: 944.24 Administration of correctional institutions for women.-(7) For pu rposes of this subsection, the term "newborn" has the same meaning as provided in s. 383.145 (2). Any female inmate who has given birth to a child within a month before her arrest or during custody: (a) May be allowed consistent and extended visitation hours with her newborn child. (b) May be allowed to make physical contact with the newborn child. (c) May not be relocated after her incarceration while the child is a newborn.(d) May determine who has custody of the newborn child in her absence. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.