Family Notification of Death, Injury, or Illness in Custody Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Apr 8, 2025
What it does
The Family Notification of Death, Injury, or Illness in Custody Act of 2025 would require the Attorney General to establish federal policies and procedures for notifying next of kin or emergency contacts when individuals in federal custody die or suffer serious illness or injury, and to develop model policies for state, local, tribal, and territorial detention agencies to adopt. It mandates that detention agencies collect emergency contact information, provide timely and compassionate notifications (including specific timing and content requirements for deaths and serious medical events), maintain written notification plans, and allow individuals in custody to update their contact…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.