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WV HB2768

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/21/2025

Primary Sponsor

Mike Pushkin

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Origin

House of Delegates

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a "Juvenile Justice Account" in the State Treasury to fund juvenile justice programs, services, and alternatives to out-of-home placement, with funding based on calculated state savings from reduced youth placements

  • Requires the Juvenile Justice Reform Oversight Committee to calculate averted costs to state and federal government from reductions in out-of-home youth placements and recommend reinvestment of those savings

  • Grants the committee subpoena power to obtain data, reports, and evaluative materials from any agency or government branch (previously the committee could only request such information)

  • Expands mandatory data collection to include average length of stay for out-of-home placements, average daily population in facilities, and costs broken down by facility, placement level, and agency

  • Makes all juvenile justice data collected under the statute public information available for public review

Legislative Description

Relating to the juvenile justice reform oversight committee

Juveniles

Last Action

To House Judiciary

2/21/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/21/2025

Full Bill Text

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