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Vermont House rejects McGuire amendment to delay expansion of juvenile jurisdiction to 19-year-olds
Summary
Representative McGuire (Rutland City) offered an amendment on House Bill 2 to preserve juvenile jurisdiction for 18-year-olds and prevent a scheduled April 1 expansion to include 19-year-olds; the House rejected the amendment on a roll-call vote of 55 to 86.
Representative McGuire (Rutland City) offered an amendment on House Bill 2 to preserve existing juvenile jurisdiction for 18-year-olds while removing the scheduled expansion that would add 19-year-olds to the family division.
The amendment would have struck sections 5 through 11 of the committee report and inserted a new section to keep “step 1” of the 2018 raise-the-age law in place while sunsetting the planned step 2 expansion to 19-year-olds. McGuire told members the change would “keep us exactly where we are” and said the proposal was not a repeal of the 2018 law but a postponement of the second step.
Supporters of the amendment said Vermont should pause and observe how other jurisdictions…
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