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House advances juvenile-justice changes to clarify placement, school-based offenses and restitution timing
Summary
House Bill 299 gathers substantive juvenile-justice changes including permitting some minors to be placed in foster-family settings, treating 18-year-old students similarly to 17-year-olds for school-based offenses, authorizing medical evaluations on intake, and extending probation jurisdiction to allow completion of restitution; the House passed the bill 70-0.
The Utah House passed first substitute House Bill 299, a bill that consolidates substantive juvenile-justice changes pulled from recent recodification efforts. The measure passed the House 70-0 and will move to the Senate.
Representative Snow, sponsor of the bill, told the…
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