Bill Title: Establish a task force to study the Unified Juvenile Code; establish membership of task force; provide that the task force is to study issues related to status offenders, the use of community resources, alternatives to detention, reinvestment of savings to create community based treatment programs, feasibility of establishing an age of criminal responsibility, issues related to domestic violence and its impact on children exposed to domestic violence, issues related to special needs children, and use of validated risk and needs assessments; require the task force to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-11 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 37) [HCR129 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]

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