S. 916
119th Congress
Senate
Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
Official title: A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant and postpartum women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and ot… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant and postpartum women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment, and for other purposes.
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2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 10, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 10, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Cosponsors
22
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Reed, Jack
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Whitehouse, Sheldon
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Blumenthal, Richard
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Booker, Cory A.
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Coons, Christopher A.
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Cortez Masto, Catherine
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Duckworth, Tammy
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Durbin, Richard J.
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Fetterman, John
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
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Heinrich, Martin
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Hirono, Mazie K.
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Kim, Andy
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Klobuchar, Amy
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Markey, Edward J.
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Padilla, Alex
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Sanders, Bernard
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Schiff, Adam B.
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Van Hollen, Chris
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Warren, Elizabeth
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Welch, Peter
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Wyden, Ron
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 916: Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-916/
"S. 916: Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-916/.
S. 916, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-916/.
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