Florida House Bill 959 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Failed on May 3 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-03 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Creates "Youth in Solitary Confinement Reduction Act; prohibits DOC or local government body from subjecting youth to solitary confinement; provides exceptions; provides restrictions on placing youth prisoners in emergency cell confinement; requires that mental health clinician evaluate face-to-face within specified time youth prisoner who is subjected to emergency cell confinement; requires visual checks at specified intervals; provides for individualized suicide crisis intervention plan, if applicable; provides for protection of youth prisoners in disciplinary cell confinement; provides reduced isolation for youth prisoners in protective custody; requires DOC & counties to review policies relating to youth prisoners; requires report; requires sheriffs to adopt standards.

Youth In Solitary Confinement

Sen. Daphne Campbell [D]

Rep. Ricardo Rangel [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-03	House	Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2013-03-05	House	Introduced
2013-03-04	House	Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Justice Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2013-02-21	House	Filed

S0812 (Same As) 2013-05-03 - Died in Criminal Justice

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
944	09		Amended Code	See Bill Text
951	23		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/959
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0959/BillText/Filed/PDF