Bill > S1670

This bill makes several changes to Florida's juvenile justice system: It requires the Department of Health to waive fees for a birth certificate issued to certain juvenile offenders in the custody or under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Justice. It provides an additional circumstance under which the court may order continued detention - if the child is a "prolific juvenile offender" with multiple prior offenses. For these prolific offenders, the bill requires the court to place them in secure detention care until disposition. The bill also revises the circumstances under which an adjudication of delinquency for a felony disqualifies a person from possessing a firearm, allowing for the disqualification to be expunged in certain cases. Additionally, the bill appropriates over $5 million to the Department of Juvenile Justice to implement these changes.

Budget and Finance, Justice

Appropriations (Senate)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/1670