Florida Senate Bill 950 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on June 16 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-06-16 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing to determine whether the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting provisions requiring a state attorney to request a court to transfer and certify a child for prosecution as an adult or to provide written reasons to the court for not making such request, or to proceed under a specified provision; requiring a court to advise a child and his or her parent or legal guardian of the child's right to a due process evidentiary hearing before a judge upon the filing by a state attorney of an information transferring the child to adult court, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Sen. Darryl Rouson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-06-16	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2025-05-03	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2025-03-04	Senate	Introduced
2025-02-28	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
2025-02-20	Senate	Filed

H613 (Same As) 2025-06-16 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
H1521 (Similar To) 2025-06-16 - 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	265		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	556		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	557		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	565		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/950
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/950/BillText/Filed/HTML