Florida Senate Bill 92 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Second Chance for Children Act"; providing that a juvenile offender who was 17 years of age or younger at the time of committing one or more nonhomicide offenses and who was sentenced to 10 or more years of imprisonment may be eligible for a reduced or suspended sentence; providing that the juvenile offender may petition the court after a specified age for a hearing to reduce or suspend the sentence; setting forth the eligibility criteria to reduce or suspend a sentence; authorizing the juvenile offender to petition for subsequent sentencing hearings if the court does not reduce or suspend the juvenile offender's sentence, etc.

Reducing or Suspending the Sentence of a Juvenile Offender

Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Sen. Arthenia Joyner [D]

Sen. Nan Rich [D]

Sen. Maria Sachs [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
2012-01-19		On Committee agenda-- Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations, 01/24/12, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2012-01-10		CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time -SJ 99
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 17
2011-11-17		Now in Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
2011-11-17		Subreferred to Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations -SJ 108
2011-11-16		Now in Budget -SJ 112
2011-11-07		Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2011-11-03		CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 -SJ 112
2011-10-20		On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 11/03/11, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Office Building
2011-09-08		Referred to Criminal Justice; Budget -SJ 17
2011-08-29		Filed

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/92
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0092/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0092/BillText/c1/HTML