Florida Senate Bill 640 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Failed on April 30 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-30 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Deleting provisions under which a state attorney must either request a court to transfer and certify children of certain ages who commit specified crimes for prosecution as adults or provide written reasons to the court for not making such a request, or must proceed under certain provisions; revising the circumstances under which a state attorney may file an information in cases that involve children of certain ages who commit certain crimes; providing that children 14 years of age or older, rather than children of any age, who are charged with certain offenses are subject to the jurisdiction of the court until an indictment is returned by the grand jury, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Sen. Bobby Powell [D]

Sen. Gary Farmer [D]

2021-03-16 - Senate - Senate Criminal Justice (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-30	Senate	Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
2021-03-18	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
2021-03-18	Senate	Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
2021-03-18	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2021-03-16	Senate	CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
2021-03-11	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/16/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
2021-03-02	Senate	Introduced
2021-01-28	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations
2021-01-14	Senate	Filed

H809 (Same As) 2021-04-30 - Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
985	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	26		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	265		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	556		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	557		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	56		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	565		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/BillText/c1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/Amendment/656834/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/Analyses/2021s00640.pre.cj.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/Analyses/2021s00640.cj.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/640/Vote/2021-03-16%201230PM~S00640%20Vote%20Record.PDF