Juvenile records; identification of children receiving coordinated services. [SB-316]
Juvenile records; identification of children receiving coordinated services. Provides that, for the purpose of disclosing records, information, and statistical registries of the Department of Social Services, local departments of social services, and all child-welfare agencies concerning social services, a person having a legitimate interest in child-protective services records includes the staff of (i) a court services unit, (ii) the Department of Juvenile Justice, (iii) a local community services board, or (iv) the Department of Behavioral Health
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SB-316: Juvenile records; identification of children receiving coordinated services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0063) on 04/01/2022
Correctional facilities; prohibited acts, use of canines by officers, etc. [HB-683]
Use of canines in correctional facilities; prohibited acts. Prohibits any correctional officer, jail officer, or other employee of a state, local, or juvenile correctional facility from using a canine to extract a prisoner or juvenile from his cell unless there is a threat of death or serious bodily injury to the prisoner or juvenile, other prisoners or juveniles, or any officer or employee of the facility.
HB-683: Correctional facilities; prohibited acts, use of canines by officers, etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Continued To 2023 In Public Safety By Voice Vote on 02/11/2022
Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; raises maximum age for delinquency matters. [SB-134]
Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; Department of Juvenile Justice; extending jurisdiction in delinquency matters to persons 18 years of age or older but less than 21 years of age. Raises the maximum age for delinquency matters in juvenile and domestic relations district courts from persons under 18 years of age to persons under 21 years of age. The bill defines "underage person" as an individual who is 18 years of age or older but less than 21 years of age. The bill adds underage persons to all provisions regarding delinquency proceedings
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SB-134: Juvenile and domestic relations district courts; raises maximum age for delinquency matters.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Courts Of Justice on 03/08/2022
Correctional facilities; DOC to convene work group to study use of restorative housing. [SB-108]
Correctional facilities; use of restorative housing; report. Directs the Department of Corrections to convene a work group to study the use of restorative housing within state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers. The bill directs the Department to facilitate confidential interviews between work group members and at least 25 persons currently incarcerated in a state correctional facility who are currently or who have within the past 12 months been placed in restorative housing, provided that such persons are not the subject
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SB-108: Correctional facilities; DOC to convene work group to study use of restorative housing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Enacted, Chapter 710 (effective 7/1/22) on 04/27/2022
Juveniles; eligibility for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice. [SB-1456]
Juveniles; eligibility for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice; eligibility for predispositional confinement in a secure facility. Provides that a juvenile may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice (the Department) only if he (i) is adjudicated delinquent of a violent juvenile felony and is 11 years of age or older or (ii) is 14 years of age or older. The bill provides that no juvenile younger than 11 years of age may be detained in a secure facility prior to an order of final disposition unless he is alleged to have committed
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SB-1456: Juveniles; eligibility for commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0115) on 03/12/2021
Child support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. [HB-1912]
Child support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice is no longer required to apply for child support from, and the parent of a juvenile is no longer responsible to pay child support to, the Department of Social Services for a juvenile who is in the temporary custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Child support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Provides that the Department of Juvenile
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HB-1912: Child support payments; juvenile in custody of or committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0283) on 03/18/2021
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. [SB-1301]
Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement. Prohibits the use of isolated confinement in state correctional facilities and juvenile correctional centers, subject to certain exceptions. Isolated confinement is defined in the bill as confinement of a prisoner or juvenile to a cell, alone or with another prisoner or juvenile, for 20 hours or more per day for an adult or for 17 hours or more per day for a juvenile, other than for the purpose of providing medical or mental health treatment. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2022.
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SB-1301: Correctional facilities; use of isolated confinement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In Appropriations on 03/01/2021