HB 1738 Summary

• Establishes definitions and regulations for three types of inmate confinement: long-term confinement (20+ hours in cell per 24-hour period), disciplinary confinement, and administrative confinement, effective January 1, 2023.

• Long-term confinement requires inmates to have access to at least 4 hours outside cell daily (including 1 hour recreation), educational programming, dining facilities, personal property, phone calls, and visitation, effective January 1, 2023.

• Restricts long-term confinement to inmates who committed serious violent acts, multiple disruptive acts causing facility shutdown or staff injuries, or escape attempts within the previous 5 years; requires hearings before placement and limits initial confinement to one year, effective January 1, 2024.

• Disciplinary confinement limited to 15 days maximum and requires specific acts (facility policy violations or serious violence) with hearings before placement; administrative confinement limited to 30 days with similar hearing requirements, effective January 1, 2024.

• Requires out-of-state correctional facilities to comply with same care standards and confinement appeal procedures as state facilities, effective August 1, 2024.