Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My amendment, PV-22, is really quite explicit in saying that if the medical health care professional finds that the situation is deteriorating, it's not just that they have the option of saying something; they shall. They shall report. They shall say something.
Then if the institutional head receives the recommendation from a health care professional that the inmate who is confined should be removed from the unit, they shall act. If the institutional head receives a recommendation that the conditions of confinement should be altered, the institutional head shall take measures to alter them. If the institutional head does not follow a recommendation made by a health care professional, they will have to explain the reasons in writing to the registered health care professional and to the inmate.
These wordings are much stronger and much clearer, and they could have prevented Ashley Smith's death.