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Committee reviews juvenile fitness process and juvenile criminal code changes; departments asked for implementation details and staffing plans
Summary
Representatives heard two related measures — one to create a fitness‑to‑proceed procedure and another to begin a juvenile criminal code — that include appropriations for mental‑health evaluations. Sponsors said the bills create a process for determining whether juveniles can assist counsel and for remediation services; Human Ser
Representative Lawrence Clamine presented two bills generated by the Interim Juvenile Justice Committee and a specialist work group: one (Senate Bill 2036) establishes a fitness‑to‑proceed chapter setting definitions, referral procedures and remediation timeframes for juveniles who may lack legal fitness; the other (Senate Bill 2037) begins a juvenile criminal code by amending selected adult criminal code provisions to apply to juveniles aged 10–17 and addressing…
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