Bill > H7059

This bill aims to reform the juvenile justice system in Florida. Key provisions include: - Requiring the Department of Health to waive fees for birth certificates issued to certain juvenile offenders who are in the custody or under supervision of the Department of Juvenile Justice. - Defining a "prolific juvenile offender" and requiring them to be placed in secure detention care until disposition, with a limit of 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing has commenced or 15 days after adjudication. - Expediting the adjudicatory hearing process for prolific juvenile offenders to within 45 days of being taken into custody. - Extending the period of detention for juveniles awaiting placement in residential commitment programs. - Disqualifying individuals adjudicated delinquent of a felony offense from lawfully possessing a firearm until age 24, unless the record is expunged. The bill also appropriates $2.9 million in recurring and non-recurring funds to the Department of Juvenile Justice to implement these reforms, which the legislature has determined serve an important state interest.

Budget and Finance, Justice

Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House), Judiciary Committee (House), Justice Appropriations Subcommittee (House)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/7059