Senate Bill sb2000

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2000

    By Senator Crist





    12-1443A-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to juvenile proceedings;

  3         amending s. 985.219, F.S.; providing the time

  4         period within which a juvenile must be brought

  5         for an adjudicatory hearing; repealing Rule

  6         8.090, Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure,

  7         relating to a speedy trial, to the extent that

  8         it is inconsistent with the act; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Present subsections (9), (10), (11), and

14  (12) of section 985.219, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as

15  subsections (10), (11), (12), and (13), respectively, and a

16  new subsection (9) is added to that section to read:

17         985.219  Process and service.--

18         (9)  If a petition is filed alleging the child to have

19  committed a delinquent act, the child shall be brought to an

20  adjudicatory hearing without demand within 90 days after the

21  earlier of:

22         (a)  The date the child was taken into custody; or

23         (b)  The date the summons issued upon the filing of a

24  petition is served.

25         Section 2.  Rule 8.090, Florida Rules of Juvenile

26  Procedure, relating to speedy trial, is repealed to the extent

27  that it is inconsistent with this act.

28         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

29  law, but section 2 shall take effect only if this act is

30  passed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the membership

31  of each house of the Legislature.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2000
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 3    Provides the time period within which a juvenile must be
      brought for an adjudicatory hearing. Repeals Rule 8.090,
 4    Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure, to the extent it is
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