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An act relating to juvenile justice; renaming ch. 984, F.S.; amending s. 984.01, F.S.; revising the purposes and intent of ch. 984, F.S.; amending s. 984.02, F.S.; revising the legislative intent for prevention and intervention; amending s. 984.03, F.S.; providing and revising definitions; amending s. 984.04, F.S.; deleting legislative intent; revising requirements for early truancy intervention; amending s. 984.06, F.S.; revising provisions concerning preservation of records and confidential information; amending s. 984.07, F.S.; providing for appointment of counsel in certain circumstances; providing for payment of counsel; providing for imposition of costs of appointed counsel on nonindigent parents in certain circumstances; providing for appointment of counsel to represent a parent or guardian in certain circumstances; amending s. 984.071, F.S.; revising provisions concerning production of an information guide concerning juvenile procedures; requiring specified departments to post the information guide on their websites; repealing s. 984.08, F.S., relating to attorney fees; repealing s. 984.085, F.S., relating to sheltering and aiding unmarried minors; creating s. 984.0861, F.S.; prohibiting the use of detention for specified purposes; amending s. 984.09, F.S.; revising provisions for a child’s punishment for contempt of court; limiting periods for placement for direct contempt or indirect contempt; revising procedures for procedure and due process; amending s. 984.10, F.S.; authorizing an authorized agent of the Department of Juvenile Justice to perform intake; revising provisions concerning referrals for service; requiring the abuse hotline to be contacted in certain circumstances; authorizing a child to remain in custody in certain circumstances; conforming a cross reference; amending s. 984.11, F.S.; requiring that an array of voluntary family services be available to remediate specified problems; providing that certain families are not eligible for voluntary family services; providing eligibility for children in certain circumstances if the Department of Children and Families agrees; providing for an interagency agreement to govern such referrals; requiring parents to use health care insurance to the extent that it is available; deleting provisions concerning collection of fees; amending s. 984.12, F.S.; revising provisions related to case staffing and to services and treatment related to a family in need of services; amending s. 984.13, F.S.; authorizing that a child be taken into custody pursuant to a finding of contempt; specifying placement of a child taken into custody in specified circumstances; revising the duties of a person taking a child into custody; amending s. 984.14, F.S.; revising provisions concerning voluntary shelter services and placement of children in such services; deleting provisions concerning involuntary placement in a shelter; amending s. 984.15, F.S.; revising requirements for petitions for a child in need of services; conforming a cross-reference and provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 984.151, F.S.; providing for early truancy intervention; providing for additional services to be ordered if a student is found to be a truant status offender; revising provisions concerning compliance; providing for applicability in cases in which a student is found to be a child in need of services; providing for retention of jurisdiction by courts; providing an exception; providing for service of court orders on specified entities; amending s. 984.16, F.S.; requiring that a student’s school receive notice of certain actions by courts; amending s. 984.17, F.S.; specifying when a guardian ad litem may be appointed; revising provisions concerning representation of the Department of Juvenile Justice in cases in which a child is alleged to be in need of services; repealing s. 984.18, F.S., relating to referral of child-in need-of-services cases to mediation; amending s. 984.19, F.S.; providing that an authorized agent of the department may have a medical screening provided for a child placed in shelter care; revising provisions concerning consent for medical care for a child in the care of the department; amending s. 984.20, F.S.; revising provisions for hearings in child in need of services cases; providing that the failure of a person served with notice to appear at the arraignment hearing constitutes the person’s consent to the child in need of services petition; requiring a specified notice in such petitions; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 984.21, F.S.; specifying that an order of adjudication by a court that a child is a child in need of services is a civil adjudication and not a conviction; deleting provisions allowing a court to withhold an adjudication that a child is a child in need of services in certain cases; amending s. 984.22, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; deleting provisions on the deposit of fees received; amending s. 984.225, F.S.; revising when a child in need of services may be placed in a shelter; revising placement procedures; providing for counseling orders; specifying the effect of a placement on the legal responsibilities of a parent, guardian, or custodian; providing limits for shelter stays; deleting provisions concerning exhaustion of less restrictive alternatives; providing for periodic review of placements; requiring a court to direct a staffing to take place with the Department of Children and Families under certain circumstances; requiring a court to refer a child to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities in certain circumstances; amending s. 984.226, F.S.; authorizing contracting for physically secure shelters; deleting provisions on representation in certain proceedings; requiring exhaustion of less restrictive placements before a child may be placed in a physically secure shelter; providing a time limit on secure shelter orders; providing legislative intent; revising provisions concerning review of secure shelter placements; providing for transfer to shelter placements in certain circumstances; requiring a court to direct a staffing to take place with the department under certain circumstances; providing for the transfer of a child to the Agency for Persons with Disabilities in certain circumstances; transferring and renumbering s. 985.731, F.S., as s. 787.035, F.S., relating to offenses concerning providing sheltering unmarried minors and aiding unmarried minor runaways; providing criminal penalties; amending s. 985.03, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “child who has been found to have committed a delinquent act”; amending s. 985.24, F.S.; prohibiting placement of a child subject to certain proceedings into secure detention care; amending s. 1003.26, F.S.; authorizing that certain meetings with parents may be conducted virtually or by telephone; providing for child study team meetings in the absence of a parent, legal guardian, or custodian or child; revising interventions by such team; providing for promotion of a child who is responsive to intervention and meets specified requirements; revising provisions concerning required notice of a child’s enrollment or attendance issues; revising provisions concerning returning a student to a parent or other party in certain circumstances; amending s. 1003.27, F.S.; revising reporting requirements for reports by school principals to school boards concerning minor students who accumulate more than a specified number of absences; requiring actions by school boards; providing for remedial actions for failure to comply; revising provisions concerning habitual truancy cases; revising provisions concerning cooperative agreements; revising who may begin certain proceedings and prosecutions; deleting a provision concerning a civil penalty for students; revising provisions concerning truant students; amending s. 381.02035, F.S.; authorizing pharmacists employed by the Department of Juvenile Justice to import drugs from Canada under a specified program; amending s. 790.22, F.S.; revising provisions concerning the treatment of a finding that a minor violated specified provisions, regardless of whether adjudication was withheld, for the purposes of determining whether a prior offense was committed; amending s. 985.12, F.S.; deleting a requirement that the Department of Juvenile Justice annually develop and produce best practice models for prearrest delinquency citation programs; amending s. 985.126, F.S.; revising the requirements for a quarterly report on prearrest citation programs; amending s. 985.25, F.S.; providing for supervised release or detention of a child despite the child’s risk assessment score in certain circumstances; limiting the number of categories that a child may be moved; amending s. 985.433, F.S.; requiring that a child be placed on conditional release rather than probation following discharge from commitment; repealing s. 985.625, F.S., relating to literacy programs for juvenile offenders; amending s. 985.632, F.S.; deleting a provision regarding development of a cost-effectiveness model and application of the model to each commitment program; amending ss. 95.11, 409.2564, 419.001, 744.309, 784.075, and 985.618, F.S.; conforming cross references and provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

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Corey Simon (R)*, 

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Chapter No. 2025-153 (on 06/23/2025)

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