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2024 SESSION
HB 1420 Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency.
Introduced by: Vivian E. Watts | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a juvenile younger than 11 years of age is found to have committed a delinquent act, the juvenile shall not be proceeded upon as delinquent; however, the court may make any orders of disposition authorized for a child in need of services or a child in need of supervision. The bill includes in the definition of "child in need of services" a child younger than 11 years of age who has committed a delinquent act.
Finally, the bill includes in the offense of causing or encouraging acts rendering children delinquent, abused, etc., any person 18 years of age or older, including the parent of any child, who willfully contributes to, encourages, or causes any act, omission, or condition that causes a child younger than 11 years of age to commit a delinquent act. Under current law, any person who commits such offense is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to SB 23.
FULL TEXT
- 01/17/24 House: Presented and ordered printed 24104690D pdf | impact statement
- 02/07/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104690D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/27/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1420ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/17/24 House: Presented and ordered printed 24104690D
- 01/17/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/26/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Read first time
- 02/07/24 House: Read second time
- 02/07/24 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/07/24 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1420E
- 02/07/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104690D-E
- 02/08/24 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/08/24 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 47-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/19/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 4-N)
- 02/20/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/24 Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/27/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/27/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1420ER)
- 02/27/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/20/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto