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House backs uniform citation system to speed juvenile cases, sponsor says process will cut months-long delays
Utah House of Representatives · February 21, 1995
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Summary
HB 225 creates a uniform citation/referral system for juvenile offenses intended to reduce processing time from many months to roughly two weeks for initial handling; the House passed the bill unanimously and forwarded it to the Senate.
Representative Steve Barr, sponsor of House Bill 2 25, told the House the current juvenile-processing timeline is lengthy (with intervals that can add up to several hundred days) and that HB 225 establishes a uniform citation system—similar to a traffic ticket—to get juveniles into court much sooner, with a…
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