SB 840 Florida Senate · 2023 Regular Session

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Summary
Prosecuting Children as Adults; 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 if 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 specified provision; requiring that the child or the child’s parent or guardian receive a due process evidentiary hearing; requiring the judge to conduct the hearing within a certain timeframe, etc.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 7, 2023 Last action May 5, 2023
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Committee
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Mar 7, 2023
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Feb 23, 2023
Committee
Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Bobby Powell
DDemocratic
FL
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