SB778
Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency, when and how child may be taken into immediate custody.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Juveniles; adjudication of delinquency; penalty.
Specifies that a delinquent child is a child 11 years of age or older who has committed a delinquent act. Currently, there is no minimum age for a child to be adjudicated delinquent. The bill provides that if a juvenile younger than 11 years of age is found to have ... (More) committed an act that would be delinquent if committed by a child 11 years of age or older, the juvenile shall not be proceeded upon as delinquent; however, the court may make any orders of disposition authorized for a child in need of services or a child in need of supervision. The bill also provides that any funding that is available to provide services to a child 11 years of age or older who is proceeded upon as delinquent shall also be made available to a child younger than 11 years of age who is found to have committed an act that would be delinquent if committed by a child 11 years of age or older in order to provide such child the same services. The bill includes in the definition of 'child in need of services' a child younger than 11 years of age who has committed an act that would be delinquent if committed by a child 11 years of age or older. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/24/2024 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103184D
- 12/24/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB778)
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
- 01/15/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25105018D-S1
- 01/17/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/17/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/20/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Floor substitute printed 25105475D-S2 (Locke)
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Senator Locke, Mamie E. Substitute agreed to
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 18-N 1-A) Close Floor Vote
- 01/27/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB778)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/04/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/04/2025 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/04/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 02/05/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 02/10/2025 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/13/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/13/2025 - House: Passed House (51-Y 46-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB778ER)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB778)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/25/2025 - Senate: Governor's Veto Received by Senate
- 03/25/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
