2025-2026 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
SB916: Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act
Legislative Summary
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.
Bill History
3/10/2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(3/10/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Judiciary(Senate)
Sponsors
Democrat: 22
Independent: 1
Primary Sponsor
Patty Murray
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (22)
Richard Blumenthal
Democrat
Cory Booker
Democrat
Christopher Coons
Democrat
Catherine Cortez Masto
Democrat
Tammy Duckworth
Democrat
Richard Durbin
Democrat
John Fetterman
Democrat
Kirsten Gillibrand
Democrat
Martin Heinrich
Democrat
Mazie Hirono
Democrat
Andy Kim
Democrat
Amy Klobuchar
Democrat
Edward Markey
Democrat
Alex Padilla
Democrat
Bernard Sanders
Independent
Adam Schiff
Democrat
Chris Van Hollen
Democrat
Elizabeth Warren
Democrat
Peter Welch
Democrat
Ron Wyden
Democrat
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democrat
Jack Reed
Democrat