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2012 Regular Session

The Florida Senate

COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA


CRIMINAL JUSTICE Senator Evers, Chair Senator Dean, Vice Chair
MEETING DATE: TIME: PLACE: MEMBERS: Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:30 a.m.12:15 p.m. Mallory Horne Committee Room, 37 Senate Office Building Senator Evers, Chair; Senator Dean, Vice Chair; Senators Bennett, Hays, Margolis, and Smith BILL DESCRIPTION and SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS Parole for Juvenile Offenders; Cites this act as the "Graham Compliance Act;" providing that a juvenile offender who was less than 18 years of age at the time of commission of a nonhomicide offense and who is sentenced to life imprisonment is eligible for parole if the offender has been incarcerated for a minimum period; requiring an initial eligibility interview to determine whether the juvenile offender has demonstrated maturity and reform for parole; providing criteria to determine maturity and reform; providing eligibility for a reinterview after a specified period for juvenile offenders denied parole, etc. CJ BC 11/03/2011 Fav/CS

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BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SB 92 Joyner (Similar S 212, Identical H 5)

COMMITTEE ACTION Fav/CS Yeas 4 Nays 0

SB 210 Wise (Identical H 135)

Costs of Prosecution, Investigation, and Representation; Providing for the withholding of unpaid costs of prosecution and representation from the return of a cash bond posted on behalf of a criminal defendant; requiring a notice on bond forms of such possible withholding; providing liability for the cost of prosecution and investigation for persons whose cases are disposed of under specified provisions; requiring courts to impose the costs of prosecution and investigation; prohibiting the court from converting the costs of prosecution and investigation to any form of community service; clarifying the types of cases that are subject to the collection and dispensing of cost payments by the clerk of the court, etc. CJ JU BC 11/03/2011 Temporarily Postponed

Temporarily Postponed

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COMMITTEE MEETING EXPANDED AGENDA Criminal Justice Thursday, November 3, 2011, 10:30 a.m.12:15 p.m. BILL DESCRIPTION and SENATE COMMITTEE ACTIONS Preventing Deaths from Drug-related Overdoses; Cites this act as the "911 Good Samaritan Act;" providing that a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an individual experiencing a drug-related overdose may not be charged, prosecuted, or penalized for specified offenses in certain circumstances; providing that a person who experiences a drug-related overdose and needs medical assistance may not be charged, prosecuted, or penalized for specified offenses in certain circumstances; providing that the protections from prosecution for specified offenses are not grounds for suppression of evidence in other prosecutions; amending mitigating circumstances under which a departure from the lowest permissible criminal sentence is reasonably justified to include circumstances in which a defendant was making a good faith effort to obtain or provide medical assistance for an individual experiencing a drugrelated overdose, etc. CJ HR 11/03/2011 Temporarily Postponed

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BILL NO. and INTRODUCER SB 278 Sachs (Identical H 125)

COMMITTEE ACTION Temporarily Postponed

Presentation on School District Zero Tolerance Policies by the Florida Association of District School Superintendents, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Presented

Other related meeting documents

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