| 1 | Representative(s) Bogdanoff offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (168883) (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove line(s) 9-55 and insert: |
| 5 | (2) The circuit court shall have exclusive original |
| 6 | jurisdiction of all proceedings under this chapter, of a child |
| 7 | voluntarily placed with a licensed child-caring agency, a |
| 8 | licensed child-placing agency, or the department, and of the |
| 9 | adoption of children whose parental rights have been terminated |
| 10 | under pursuant to this chapter. Jurisdiction attaches when the |
| 11 | initial shelter petition, dependency petition, or termination of |
| 12 | parental rights petition is filed or when a child is taken into |
| 13 | the custody of the department. The circuit court may assume |
| 14 | jurisdiction over any such proceeding regardless of whether the |
| 15 | child was in the physical custody of both parents, was in the |
| 16 | sole legal or physical custody of only one parent, caregiver, or |
| 17 | some other person, or was in the physical or legal custody of no |
| 18 | person when the event or condition occurred that brought the |
| 19 | child to the attention of the court. When the court obtains |
| 20 | jurisdiction of any child who has been found to be dependent, |
| 21 | the court shall retain jurisdiction, unless relinquished by its |
| 22 | order, until the child reaches 18 years of age. However, if a |
| 23 | youth petitions the court at any time before his or her 19th |
| 24 | birthday requesting the court's continued jurisdiction, the |
| 25 | juvenile court may retain jurisdiction under this chapter for a |
| 26 | period not to exceed 1 year following the youth's 18th birthday |
| 27 | for the purpose of determining whether appropriate aftercare |
| 28 | support, Road-to-Independence Scholarship, transitional support, |
| 29 | mental health, and developmental disability services, to the |
| 30 | extent otherwise authorized by law, have been provided to the |
| 31 | formerly dependent child who was in the legal custody of the |
| 32 | department immediately before his or her 18th birthday. If a |
| 33 | petition for special immigrant juvenile status and an |
| 34 | application for adjustment of status have been filed on behalf |
| 35 | of a foster child and the petition and application have not been |
| 36 | granted by the time the child reaches 18 years of age, the court |
| 37 | may retain jurisdiction over the dependency case solely for the |
| 38 | purpose of allowing the continued consideration of the petition |
| 39 | and application by federal authorities. Review hearings for the |
| 40 | child shall be set solely for the purpose of determining the |
| 41 | status of the petition and application. The court's jurisdiction |
| 42 | terminates upon the final decision of the federal authorities. |
| 43 | Retention of jurisdiction in this instance does not affect the |
| 44 | services available to a young adult under s. 409.1451. The court |
| 45 | may not retain jurisdiction of the case after the immigrant |
| 46 | child's 22nd birthday. |
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| 50 | Remove line(s) 330-340 and insert: |
| 51 | F.S.; authorizing a child in foster care to petition the court |
| 52 | to retain jurisdiction of his or her case; limiting the court's |
| 53 | continued jurisdiction to 1 year after the child's 18th |
| 54 | birthday; identifying the issues to be considered by the court |
| 55 | during its continued jurisdiction; providing that the |
| 56 | jurisdiction of the court terminates under specified conditions; |
| 57 | providing that the court encourage the Statewide Guardian Ad |
| 58 | Litem Office to provide greater representation to certain |
| 59 | children; amending s. |