Sen. Bobby Powell

Mental Health Assistance Allocation; Revising the elements of plans required for school district funding under the mental health assistance allocation; requiring the plans to include adoption of an interagency agreement or memorandum of understanding with a managing entity that performs specified functions; requiring such agreement or memorandum to address the sharing of records and information to coordinate care and increase access to appropriate services; requiring the plans to include adoption of policies and procedures that meet specified criteria, etc.

Law Enforcement Officer Certification Revocation and Accountability; Requiring law enforcement agencies to make reports concerning law enforcement officers with revoked certifications for misconduct to a specified national registry and to screen prospective law enforcement officers against such registry, etc.

Representation Provided by the Offices of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel in Child Welfare Matters; Authorizing the regional counsel to provide pre-petition legal representation to indigent parents in certain child welfare matters; authorizing the regional counsel to initiate or appear in specified civil actions; providing a mechanism for determining indigency by a regional counsel; requiring child protective investigators to provide information regarding the right of certain persons to representation by the regional counsel, etc.

Minimum Age for Arrest; Prohibiting the arrest of a person younger than 10 years of age, etc.

Trust Funds/Child Care Trust Fund; Creating the Child Care Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Families; providing the purpose of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.

Use of Deadly Force; Defining the term “serious bodily injury”; requiring certain law enforcement agencies to collect and report to the Department of Law Enforcement specified information regarding the use of deadly force; requiring the department, in consultation with specified associations, to develop and maintain a database for the retention of such information for at least a specified period of time, etc.

Mental Illness Training for Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish a continued employment training component relating to mental illness; requiring that the training component include instruction on the recognition of and appropriate responses to individuals exhibiting certain symptoms or characteristics; authorizing completion of the training to count toward continued employment or appointment instruction requirements, etc.

Automatic Sealing of Criminal History Records; Requiring the clerk of the court to transmit certified copies of the disposition of criminal history records for criminal cases disposed of before a certain date to the Department of Law Enforcement on a specified schedule; providing that transmission of the certified copy to the department seals the criminal history record, etc.

Background Screening; Prohibiting employers from excluding applicants from an initial interview for employment under certain conditions; providing a civil penalty for violations of the act; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to enforce the act, etc.

Detention of Children; Prohibiting a child awaiting trial or other legal process who is treated as an adult for purposes of criminal prosecution from being held in a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults; requiring the court to consider specified factors in making a certain determination; providing a requirement and a prohibition if a court determines that it is in the interest of justice to allow a child to be held in a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults, etc.