The Florida Senate

HB 449: Early Childhood Courts

GENERAL BILL by Mariano ; Andrade

Early Childhood Courts; Authorizes circuit courts to create early childhood court programs; requires early childhood court programs have certain components; provides requirements & guidelines for OSCA when hiring community coordinators & statewide training specialist; authorizes Trial Court Budget Commission to provide funding to circuit courts that choose to establish coordination system in lieu of creating community coordinator position; requires DCF to contract with certain university-based centers; requires university-based centers to hire clinical director.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  10/24/2019	House	• Filed
  10/30/2019	House	• Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Judiciary Committee -HJ 38
  1/14/2020	House	• Introduced -HJ 38
  3/14/2020	House	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1105 (Ch. 2020-138)

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• HB 449, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 10/24/2019 at 11:21 AM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (3)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 236 (c1)	Early Childhood Courts	Book	Identical	Last Action: 3/14/2020 S Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1105 (Ch. 2020-138)
  H 1105 (er)	Child Welfare	Tomkow	Compare	Last Action: 6/30/2020 Chapter No. 2020-138, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 43 (Ch. 2020-40)
  S 1324 (c2)	Child Welfare	Simpson	Compare	Last Action: 3/11/2020 S Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 43 (Ch. 2020-40), CS/CS/HB 1105 (Ch. 2020-138) -SJ 697

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  39.01304		Page 1 (pdf)

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