Plain English Breakdown
The official text does not specify an effective date, only that it passed the legislature.
Housing Preferences for Transgender and Nonbinary Incarcerated Individuals
This law requires state prisons to house transgender, nonbinary, or intersex individuals based on their anatomy instead of their preference if they committed specific crimes against victims of the opposite gender.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deny housing preferences for some incarcerated individuals who are transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
- Mandates that these individuals be housed in a facility matching their anatomy under specific conditions.
- Applies this rule if an individual was convicted of offenses like rape or human trafficking against victims with the opposite gender based on anatomy.
- Also applies if the department has credible evidence that an individual committed such offenses, even without a conviction.
Who It Names or Affects
- Incarcerated individuals who are transgender, nonbinary, or intersex in state prisons under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
- The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation regarding housing assignments for these specific cases.
Terms To Know
- Housing preference
- An individual's choice to be placed in a prison facility designated for men or women based on their gender identity rather than anatomy, which this bill restricts under certain conditions.
- Credible evidence
- Information the department believes is trustworthy enough to show an offense occurred, even if there was no court conviction yet.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill lists rape and human trafficking as examples but does not list every specific crime that triggers this rule.
- It does not explain how the department will decide what counts as credible evidence in each case.
- The official text provided does not state when these new rules will officially begin.