Florida Senate Bill 1492 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [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 court jurisdiction until an indictment is returned; authorizing, rather than requiring, a child to be sentenced as an adult if the child is found to have committed an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults

Sen. Randolph Bracy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Judiciary
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-18	Senate	Introduced
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Appropriations
2022-01-05	Senate	Filed

H407 (Same As) 2022-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
985	03		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/2022/1492
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1492/BillText/Filed/HTML