Florida Senate Bill 1080

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing is held to determine if the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting provisions requiring a state attorney to request a court to transfer and certify a child for prosecution as an adult or to provide written reasons to the court for not making such request, or to proceed under a specified provision; deleting references to the state attorney's discretion to direct file a juvenile, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Sen. Bobby Powell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2024-01-09	Senate	Introduced
2024-01-04	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
2023-12-27	Senate	Filed

H969 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
985	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	15		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	565		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1080
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1080/BillText/Filed/HTML