SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 722

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Lee moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment 

14         On page 2, lines 7-25, delete those lines

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17         (b)  With respect to any child 16 or 17 years of age at

18  the time an offense classified as a forcible felony, as

19  defined in s. 776.08, was committed, the state attorney shall

20  file an information if the child has previously been

21  adjudicated delinquent or had adjudication withheld for three

22  acts classified as felonies each of which occurred at least 45

23  days apart from each other.  This paragraph does not apply

24  when the state attorney has good cause to believe that

25  exceptional circumstances exist which preclude the just

26  prosecution of the juvenile in adult court. Notwithstanding

27  subsection (1), regardless of the child's age at the time the

28  alleged offense was committed, the state attorney must file an

29  information with respect to any child who previously has been

30  adjudicated for offenses which, if committed by an adult,

31  would be felonies and such adjudications occurred at three or

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 722

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 1  more separate delinquency adjudicatory hearings, and three of

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 3  985.03(47).

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