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Subcommittee tables bill to let juvenile court impose longer serious-offender commitments after heated testimony
Summary
HB 2270, which would give juvenile (JDR) courts authority similar to circuit courts to commit serious juvenile offenders and expand the maximum determinate commitment in some cases, was tabled by the subcommittee 5-3 after testimony for and against the measure.
The Courts of Justice subcommittee voted 5-3 to table House Bill 2270 after extended testimony and questions about moving serious-offender commitments into juvenile court.
Delegate Obenshane, the bill’s patron, told the subcommittee HB 2270 is intended to “reduce the incentives that currently exist in the code to transfer young juvenile serious offenders to circuit court” by giving juvenile and domestic relations (JDR) courts the same authority as circuit courts to commit serious juvenile offenders. The bill would permit the juvenile court to impose certain determinate commitments (up to seven years in some instances) without transferring the case to circuit court.
Committee counsel and multiple witnesses explained the statutory background. Under current law, the code provides two subdivisions for serious-offender commitments: subsection (a)…
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