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Committee advances bill shifting juvenile pre-adjudication per-diem costs to a 1/3–2/3 split
Summary
Senate Bill 374, which removes a fixed $50-per-day charge and restores a statutory cost split for juvenile pre-adjudication detention costs, received unanimous subcommittee and full committee support and will move to the full Senate.
The Senate Corrections and Penology Committee advanced Senate Bill 374, which removes a fixed $50 per-diem payment and restores statutory language that allocates daily detention costs for juveniles in Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facilities as one-third paid by DJJ and two-thirds by the local government that uses DJJ detention services.
Senator Turner, reporting for the subcommittee, told the committee that DJJ and local governments currently operate under a practice where local governments pay a $50 daily…
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