HB64 Summary

• Amends Section 12-15-204, Code of Alabama 1975, to require circuit or district courts to dismiss all charges against 16- or 17-year-old defendants if no indictment is returned for any predicate offense.

• Preserves juvenile court's original jurisdiction over lesser included offenses when a grand jury fails to indict for the enumerated predicate offenses or when criminal courts dismiss all charges for those offenses.

• Allows dismissed cases to be refiled in juvenile court through intake procedures under Section 12-15-120(a), except in cases transferred pursuant to Section 12-15-203.

• Maintains existing law that persons 16 and older charged with capital offenses, Class A felonies, felonies involving deadly weapons, and other specified serious offenses shall be tried as adults in criminal court.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.