HB4633 S JUD AMT

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The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill No. 4633 – A Bill to amend and reenact §49-4-720 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to prohibiting juveniles from being incarcerated with adult offenders; directing that the Division of Juvenile Services begin operating and maintaining a facility or a unit within a facility for persons committed to the Division’s custody who are eighteen years of age or older on or before June 30, 2016, which is in compliance with state and federal laws regarding the housing of juvenile offenders; requiring notice to the sentencing court regarding a juvenile’s impending eighteenth birthday; authorizing a sentencing court to hold a hearing upon the reaching age eighteen who had previously been transferred to the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit court in order to consider and order further action; and establishing an internal effective date.