This bill, the Births in Custody Reporting Act of 2025, requires States that receive certain Department of Justice grant funds to send quarterly, anonymized, aggregate reports to the Attorney General about people who are pregnant or who give birth while in custody. Reports must cover people held in jails, prisons, boot camp prisons, contract facilities, and juvenile facilities. The reports must not include any personally identifiable information. The Attorney General must publish the reports, study the reported information, and send a findings report to Congress within two years.
State agencies that receive the specified grant funds must collect and report data every quarter on pregnant and postpartum people in custody. The reports must include counts, race and ethnicity, timing of admission and release, whether pregnancy tests and prenatal visits were given within set timeframes, pregnancy outcomes (for example live birth, miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, maternal or neonatal death, preterm birth), details about use of restraints, postpartum care and screening, and whether restrictive housing was used. The Attorney General will make the reports public and use the data to study treatment and outcomes for people who are pregnant or gave birth in custody.
No publicly available information on estimated costs or new federal spending is provided in the bill text. The bill directs the Attorney General to publish reports and carry out a study and allows the Attorney General to reduce certain grant allocations by up to 10 percent for States that do not comply. The bill does not include specific dollar amounts or budget instructions.
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