HB 2219-S2.E - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/9/96)

     Revises various provisions relating to offenders.

     Implements an experiment to determine whether granting courts of limited jurisdiction concurrent jurisdiction over certain juvenile offenses will improve the system's effectiveness in curbing delinquency.

     Revises provisions of the juvenile justice act of 1977.

     Provides for the modification of disposition standards.

     Directs the sentencing guidelines commission to assume the duties of the juvenile disposition standards commission on June 30, 1996.

     Encourages parents to participate in juvenile offender proceedings.

     Requires a report on security at juvenile facilities during the preceding year.

     Increases penalties for adult offenders for assault 2 and robbery 2.

     Allows violent offenses committed as a juvenile to be counted in an adult offender's criminal history score.

     Makes an appropriation of four million seven hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars to carry out the purposes of the act.