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FL S1352

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/4/2024

Primary Sponsor

Fiscal Policy

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Origin

Senate

2024 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the "minimum-risk nonresidential" restrictiveness level for juvenile commitments and redesignates the "nonsecure residential" level as "moderate-risk residential," while redefining maximum-risk residential facilities to replace references to "juvenile correctional facilities or juvenile prisons"

  • Authorizes Department of Juvenile Justice personnel and contracted providers with direct youth contact to possess, store, and administer emergency opioid antagonists, with immunity from civil and criminal liability for such administration

  • Substantially restructures juvenile justice circuit advisory boards by reducing minimum membership from 16 to 14, designating the chief probation officer as chair, eliminating requirements for comprehensive plans, bylaws, executive committees, and term limits, and refocusing the boards on using data to inform policy and practice

  • Replaces the term "gender-specific" with "sex-specific" throughout juvenile justice statutes and defines "sex" by reference to s. 553.865(3), affecting programming, services, and treatment provisions

  • Revises juvenile justice education requirements by removing separate accountability and reporting mandates for residential programs, shifting assessment selection to district school boards, allowing the Florida Scholars Academy board of trustees to approve an annual 250-day academic calendar with up to 20 days reducible for teacher planning, and authorizing the department to purchase promotional and educational materials for recruitment and public safety outreach

Legislative Description

Juvenile Justice

Last Action

Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1425

3/1/2024

Committee Referrals

Fiscal Policy2/12/2024
Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice1/30/2024

Full Bill Text

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