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HB542 • 2026

Require all inmate pregnancy outcomes be reported to DRC

Require all inmate pregnancy outcomes be reported to DRC

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Sponsor
Terrence Upchurch
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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Require all inmate pregnancy outcomes be reported to DRC

To enact sections 341.28, 753.34, and 5120.6511 of the Revised Code to require all inmate pregnancy outcomes to be reported to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

What This Bill Does

  • To enact sections 341.28, 753.34, and 5120.6511 of the Revised Code to require all inmate pregnancy outcomes to be reported to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact sections 341.28, 753.34, and 5120.6511 of the Revised Code to require all inmate pregnancy outcomes to be reported to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 542

2025-2026

Representatives Upchurch, Williams

Cosponsors: Representatives Newman,
Lett, Brennan, Brewer, Mohamed

To
enact sections 341.28, 753.34, and 5120.6511 of the Revised Code
to
require all inmate pregnancy outcomes to be reported to the
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
sections 341.28, 753.34, and 5120.6511 of the Revised Code be enacted
to read as follows:

Sec.
341.28.
(A)
As used in this section, "county correctional facility"
means a county jail, county workhouse, minimum security jail, joint
city and county workhouse, municipal-county correctional center,
multicounty-municipal correctional center, municipal-county jail or
workhouse, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse.

(B)
Not later than the thirty-first day of December of each year, each
county correctional facility shall report to the department of
rehabilitation and correction the pregnancy outcome of each pregnant
inmate who resided at the facility at the conclusion of the
pregnancy.

Sec.
753.34.
(A)
"Municipal correctional facility" means a municipal jail,
municipal workhouse, minimum security jail, joint city and county
workhouse, municipal-county correctional center,
multicounty-municipal correctional center, municipal-county jail or
workhouse, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse.

(B)
Not later than the thirty-first day of December of each year, each
municipal correctional facility shall report to the department of
rehabilitation and correction the pregnancy outcome of each pregnant
inmate who resided at the facility at the conclusion of the
pregnancy.

Sec.
5120.6511.
(A)
As used in this section, "state correctional institution"
has the same meaning as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code.

(B)
Not later than the thirty-first day of December of each year, each
state correctional institution shall report to the department of
rehabilitation and correction the pregnancy outcome of each pregnant
inmate in the custody of the department who resided at the
institution at the conclusion of the pregnancy.