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Senate Judiciary Committee advances juvenile-justice bill with mandatory detention overrides and added crisis-services funding
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended House Bill 2329 as amended, adding automatic detention overrides for juveniles presented twice to intake within one year and folding in provisions from Senate Bill 414 to fund residential behavioral-health crisis services. The committee advanced the bill despite objections about assessment accuracy and concerns the measure could increase youth detention.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on an earlier agenda voted to recommend House Bill 2329 as amended, a package of juvenile-justice changes that adds mandatory overrides to the detention-risk assessment and incorporates funding pathways for residential crisis services.
Reviser testimony summarized HB 2329 as a bill that “requires the Department of Corrections to contract for a minimum number of beds in youth residential facilities” and allows courts to place juveniles directly in those facilities while making sentencing adjustments for offenses involving firearms. Committee members adopted an amendment that requires juvenile intake and assessment to place a juvenile in detention when the juvenile has been presented to…
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