Florida Senate Bill 628 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Deleting provisions under which a state attorney either must request a court to transfer and certify children of certain ages who commit specified crimes for prosecution as adults or must provide written reasons to the court for not making such a request, or proceed under certain provisions; providing that children 14 years of age or older, rather than children of any age, who are charged with certain offenses are subject to the jurisdiction of the court until an indictment is returned by the grand jury; authorizing, rather than requiring, that a child who is found to have committed specified crimes be sentenced according to certain provisions, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Sen. Bobby Powell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2020-03-14	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-01-14	Senate	Introduced
2019-11-06	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Appropriations
2019-10-22	Senate	Filed

H517 (Similar To) 2020-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
985	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	26		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	265		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	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/628
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/628/BillText/Filed/HTML