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SB 1098 Juvenile Justice and Prevention, Advisory Committee on; delinquency prevention.

Introduced by: A. Donald McEachin | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Prevention. Broadens the scope of the Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice to include review of juvenile delinquency prevention activities in the Commonwealth. The bill also adds the Commissioner of Health to the membership of the Advisory Committee and provides that the Advisory Committee may serve as an advisory committee as may be required by other federal or state laws or programs administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act (Youth PROMISE Act). Creates the Youth PROMISE Act (the Act) to provide for the development and implementation of evidence-based and promising programs related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention to help build individual, family, and community strength and resiliency to ensure that youth lead productive, safe, healthy, gang-free, and law-abiding lives. The Act establishes a PROMISE Advisory Council to (i) assess and develop standards and evidence-based practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity and (ii) collect data in designated geographic areas to assess such areas' need for and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention. The Act authorizes the Director of Juvenile Justice to award grants to local governments to (a) plan and assess evidence-based and promising practices for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for at-risk youth, and (b) implement PROMISE plans, developed by local PROMISE Coordinating Panels, for coordinating and supporting the delivery of juvenile delinquency and gang prevention and intervention programs in local communities. The Act establishes a Research Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Practices to provide PROMISE Coordinating Panels and the public with research and other information about evidence-based practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang prevention or intervention. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act passed in 2015 that becomes law.