HB2221
Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification, report.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656)
Chief Patron:
Rae Cousins (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Prisoners; Department of Corrections-issued identification; work group; report.
Requires the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles, the State Registrar of Vital Records, and any other relevant government agency to provide to a prisoner who has been confined for at least 90 days and does not possess a government-issued identification card, birth certificate, and ... (More) social security card with a certified copy of such prisoner's birth certificate, his social security card, and a government-issued identification card, prior to such prisoner's release or discharge into the community. The bill also specifies what identifying information must be included on a prisoner's Department of Corrections Offender Identification form provided to a prisoner who is unable to obtain a government-issued identification card prior to his release or discharge and provides that such form shall satisfy certain requirements for the purposes of obtaining a government-issued identification card for the 120 days immediately following the release or discharge of the prisoner identified on such form. The bill also directs the Department of Corrections, in coordination with the State Board of Local and Regional Jails to form a work group to study various topics related to the implementation of procedures to assist a prisoner in a local or regional correctional facility with obtaining a government-issued identification card and to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Public Safety, and the Senate Committees on Rehabilitation and Social Services and Finance and Appropriations by November 1, 2025. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104315D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/21/2025 - House: Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/30/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Placed on Public Safety Agenda
- 01/31/2025 - House: Reported from Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106422D-H1
- 02/02/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Public Safety Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/14/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2221)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Rehabilitation and Social Services Amendment agreed to
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (20-Y 15-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/18/2025 - House: Senate Amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/20/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2221ER)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/20/2025 - House: Enrolled bill reprinted 25106422D
- 02/23/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2221)
- 03/05/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2025
- 03/05/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/24/2025 - House: Governor's substitute printed (HB2221H2)
- 04/02/2025 - House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (95-Y 0-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N)
- 04/02/2025 - Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/02/2025 - House: Reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2221ER2)
- 04/02/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/02/2025 - House: Enacted, Chapter 656 (Effective 07/01/26)
- 04/02/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0656)
