Florida House Bill 509 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Failed on March 10 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-10 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Creates exception to suspension of civil rights upon conviction of felony for children convicted as adults; removes provisions requiring state attorney request court to transfer & certify child for prosecution as adult; revises factors that court must consider when determining whether child should be transferred to adult court; eliminates discretionary direct filing for children of specified ages; revises list of crimes for which children may be direct filed; requires specified information to be included in certain orders; removes provisions requiring that child be prosecuted as adult in certain circumstances; authorizes child transferred to adult court to request hearing; prohibits transfer of eligible child to adult court if child has previously been found incompetent & has not had competency restored; authorizes, rather than requires, court to order child to be housed in adult detention facility in certain circumstances.

Juvenile Justice

Rep. Sean Shaw [D]

Rep. Ben Diamond [D]

Rep. Nicholas Duran [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-10	House	Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2018-03-10	House	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2018-01-09	House	Introduced
2017-11-08	House	Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Justice Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2017-11-02	House	Filed

H195 (Similar To) 2018-03-10 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
S288 (Similar To) 2018-03-10 - Died in Criminal Justice
S936 (Similar To) 2018-03-10 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
S1552 (Similar To) 2018-03-26 - Chapter No. 2018-86

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
944	292		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	265		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	514		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	556		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	557		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	56		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	565		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/509
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/509/BillText/Filed/PDF