S.B. 96-2 Child support - establishment and enforcement - income assignment - determination of paternity. Expands the definitions of "earnings", "gross income", and "wages" to include different sources of income not necessarily paid through a paycheck. States that gross income for purposes of child support calculation does not include income from additional jobs that result in the employment of the obligor more than 40 hours per week or more than what would otherwise be considered full time. Excludes social security benefits received by a minor child as a result of the death or disability of a stepparent from gross income.
In the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act", provides that a support enforcement agency is not authorized to modify a spousal support order. Repeals a statute relating to proceedings not to be stayed that is in conflict with another provision.
Authorizes the court to order an amount of retroactive child support for a time period that occurred after the date of the parties' physical separation or filing of the petition or service upon the respondent, whichever is latest, and prior to the entry of the support order. Authorizes a delegate child support enforcement unit acting pursuant to administrative process to use discretion in determining the amount of child support in circumstances in which the parent is living below a minimum subsistence level.
Repeals the portion of the "Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act" that authorizes the court to order an obligor to make an assignment of earnings or trust income to the person entitled to receive child support payments.
Repeals the current wage assignment provisions of law and the provisions on immediate deductions for family support obligations. Enacts a new statute to cover all types of wage withholding procedures as income assignments with consistent and streamlined procedures.
Limits the application of the requirement in the "Uniform Parentage Act" that the court enter a custody order when a paternity determination is entered pursuant to the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act".
Requires that a parent proposing to relinquish a child, or that parent's counsel, provide notice to the delegate child support enforcement unit to whom the parent has assigned child support rights when the parent seeks to relinquish his or her parental rights. Clarifies who shall issue a summons for a support proceeding under the "Colorado Children's Code".
Authorizes the district attorney in each judicial district to appoint an attorney performing child support enforcement services for the county department of social services as a special deputy district attorney for the purpose of prosecuting felony nonsupport actions. Limits such a special deputy district attorney's powers.
Requires a delegate child support enforcement unit, where applicable, to prepare reports for the state registrar of vital statistics concerning decrees relating to parentage.
Allows the county to pay the applicant's fee for child support services provided to persons not receiving public assistance. Authorizes the county department to recover any costs incurred in excess of fees from either the obligor or obligee where the individual is receiving child support enforcement services.
Amends the state parent locator statute to make certain records available to local agencies or officials seeking to collect child support, the custodial parent, legal guardian, attorney, or agent of a child not receiving public assistance, and United States agents or attorneys dealing with federal parent locator services in connection with a parental kidnapping or custody case. Permits the state locator service or a local child support enforcement unit to request a financial institution or a person in the state or doing business in the state to provide information regarding assets of a child support obligor. Authorizes the state parent locator service to establish fees for the provision of services. Repeals a statute allowing a fee for credit reporting that conflicts with a federal law prohibiting such a fee.
Eliminates the need for filing a verified entry of judgment in order to attach workers' compensation benefits for the collection of current child support obligations, requires that information concerning the obligor's rights to administrative review be provided to the obligor when an attachment occurs. Allows the child support enforcement agency to serve notice of an administrative lien and attachment for purposes of attaching and collecting workers' compensation income by first-class mail rather than by certified mail.
Directs the state department of human services to consult with counties to determine what services of the child support enforcement program should be privatized. Authorizes the state department to procure such services on behalf of participating counties. Requires the department to report to the joint budget committee by January 1, 1998, concerning such privatization.
States that duty of support includes medical support and any retroactive support due.
Allows for hand delivery of the notice of continuation of a negotiation conference. Reduces the time frame for establishing paternity after receipt of a notice of hearing from one year to 6 months.
States that a garnishee is not required to collect, possess, or control a judgment debtor's tips.
Allows the family support registry, when the delegate child support enforcement unit is no longer required to provide enforcement services and payments are received, to refer child support payments it receives to the court. Prohibits the child support enforcement unit from processing payments through the family support registry, even upon agreement of the parties, when it is no longer required to provide services. Eliminates the automatic repeal of statutory provisions relating to the family support registry.
Applies to orders entered on or after July 1, 1996; except that provisions relating to income assignments shall apply to orders entered before, on, or after July 1, 1996.
APPROVED by Governor May 1, 1996
EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996
S.B. 96-30 Court-appointed special advocate program. Authorizes each judicial district or combination of adjacent judicial districts to establish a court-appointed special advocate program (CASA program) to assist in the investigation of cases brought under the "Colorado Children's Code". Provides that a CASA program entails appointments of trained volunteers to assist in the representation of children. Establishes the minimum requirements for a CASA program.
Sets forth the minimum qualifications for CASA volunteers affiliated with a program. Specifies the appointment requirements and duties of and restrictions on a CASA volunteer. Allows a CASA volunteer access to relevant data regarding a case, and requires the CASA volunteer to maintain the confidentiality of the information. Clarifies the relationship between a CASA volunteer and the other parties involved in a case.
Establishes the same immunity for CASA volunteers and program directors as granted under the "Volunteer Service Act" for other volunteers and under current law for directors of nonprofit organizations.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 1996
EFFECTIVE May 23, 1996
S.B. 96-126 Postsecondary education expenses - authority to order eliminated - applicability. Eliminates the authority of the court on or after July 1, 1996, to order parents in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or legal separation to pay for postsecondary education expenses upon the termination of child support at age 19. Provides that, for child support orders entered on or after July 1, 1996, child support terminates at age 19 unless the parties otherwise agree, the child is mentally or physically disabled, or the child is still in high school.
Allows an order for postsecondary education expenses entered between July 1, 1991, and July 1, 1996, to be modified to provide for postsecondary education expenses subject to the statutory provisions for determining the amount of a parent's contribution to the costs of postsecondary education, the limitations on the amount of a parent's contribution, and the changes to the definition of postsecondary education consistent with the postsecondary education statute as it existed on July 1, 1994.
States that an order for child support entered prior to July 1, 1996, that does not provide for postsecondary education expenses shall not be modified pursuant to the statute governing postsecondary education expenses.
Allows the parents to agree in a written stipulation to continue child support beyond age 19 or to provide for postsecondary education expenses. Makes such a stipulation enforceable if made part of a decree of dissolution of marriage or legal separation.
Clarifies the provision allowing child support to continue between 19 and 21 years of age if the child drops out of high school and later reenrolls by specifying that the child support continues for one month following graduation but not beyond age 21.
VETOED by Governor May 2, 1996
S.B. 96-137 Juvenile justice - sentencing - regimented juvenile training program. Authorizes a court to sentence a juvenile directly to the regimented juvenile training program ("boot camp") as a condition of probation rather than sentence the juvenile to the department of human services with a recommendation that the juvenile participate in boot camp. Allows the department of human services to determine whether a juvenile is appropriate for boot camp and, if not, directs the department to return the juvenile to court for another sentencing hearing. Identifies a sentence to boot camp as an alternative to detention, detention as a condition of probation, or commitment to the department of human services. Specifies that boot camp is intended for juveniles who would otherwise be placed in detention or committed.
Clarifies that phase I of boot camp is residential. Clarifies that the boot camp is established to accommodate 80 male juveniles. Directs the judicial department and the department of human services to establish selection guidelines for boot camp based on the severity and number of offenses committed by the juvenile. Requires the judicial department to provide the department of human services with information concerning a juvenile's criminal history. Requires the judicial department and the department of human services to determine what supportive services are necessary for boot camp.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 1996
EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996
S.B. 96-141 Domestic proceeding - parental education programs. Authorizes a court to order a parent of a minor child to attend an educational program concerning the impact of separation and divorce on children where the parent is a named party in a dissolution of marriage, legal separation, restraining order, or other custody or parenting time action. Permits each judicial district, or combination of judicial districts as designated by the chief justice, to establish such an educational program, or to arrange for the provision of such a program through competitively negotiated contracts, to be administered and monitored by the implementing judicial district or districts. Specifies what the educational program shall inform and teach parents. Identifies that the program shall be paid for by the participating parties in accordance with each party's ability to pay.
APPROVED by Governor April 8, 1996
EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996
S.B. 96-204 Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act - disposition of property - division of public employee retirement benefits. Specifies that the retirement benefits from a public employee retirement plan established pursuant to Colorado law are divisible directly by the plan upon agreement of the parties to a legal action for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or declaration of invalidity. Requires an agreement dividing a public employee retirement benefit to meet certain specified criteria. Provides that a court is without jurisdiction to order the division of benefits without the agreement of the parties or to modify the agreement of the parties. Defines pertinent terms.
Authorizes the trustees or the administrators of each retirement plan to promulgate rules or procedures governing the division of benefits under the public employee retirement benefit plan, including a rule requiring the use of a standardized form for orders approving the parties' agreement.
Clarifies that compliance with these provisions by a public employee retirement benefit plan does not subject the plan to any portions of ERISA that do not otherwise affect governmental plans generally. Specifies that any plan that complies with an order approving an agreement dividing benefits shall be relieved of liability for payments made to the parties pursuant to a court order approving the agreement. Identifies that a court may retain jurisdiction to supervise the implementation of an order dividing benefits.
Specifies that the act applies to causes of action filed on or after January 1, 1997.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 1996
EFFECTIVE January 1, 1997
H.B. 96-1005 Juvenile justice - miscellaneous amendments - appropriations. Relocates the juvenile justice provisions located in the "Colorado Children's Code", with the following changes:
Legislative declaration. Adds a legislative declaration that recognizes the general assembly's intent to protect the public and provide appropriate treatment to the juvenile.
Jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Gives the juvenile court and the county court concurrent jurisdiction over offenses involving marihuana and marihuana concentrate.
Venue in juvenile matters. Prohibits a juvenile court from rejecting a transfer of venue unless venue would be improper. Requires the receiving court to set a hearing within 30 days after transfer of venue.
Jury trial. Limits the right to a jury trial to juveniles charged as aggravated juvenile offenders and juveniles charged with offenses that would constitute crimes of violence. Specifies that there is no right to a jury trial for nonfelony offenses. Specifies that any juvenile who requests a jury trial is deemed to have waived the 60-day timeframe for an adjudicatory trial.
Deadlines in delinquency proceedings. Requires the district attorney to file a petition within 72 hours after the detention hearing in all cases in which a detention hearing is held. Requires the first appearance to be held within 30 days after issuance of the summons. Requires the adjudicatory trial to be held within 60 days after the entry of a plea. Requires the sentencing hearing to be held within 45 days after completion of the adjudicatory trial. Allows the court to grant a continuance of any deadline, except the sentencing deadline, upon a showing of good cause.
Parental requirements. Requires the juvenile's parent, guardian, or legal custodian to attend all juvenile proceedings concerning the juvenile. Allows the court to impose contempt sanctions for failure to attend unless for good cause. Authorizes the court to impose requirements on the juvenile's parent, guardian, or legal custodian so long as the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is a party to the juvenile proceeding.
Administrative entities. Specifies which state agencies are responsible for juvenile programs. Creates the division of youth corrections ("DYC") in the department of human services ("DHS"). Authorizes DYC to enter into agreements with the judicial department to combine provision of juvenile parole and probation services. Directs DYC to submit an annual report to the judiciary committees of the general assembly regarding any interagency agreement into which DYC enters. Authorizes the director of DYC to appoint directors of the DYC facilities. Removes language allowing DYC to reject, on the basis of lack of physical capacity at juvenile facilities, any juvenile committed to DHS.
Juvenile programs. Adds juvenile day reporting and day treatment programs to the list of approved preadjudication service programs.
Regimented juvenile training program. Instructs DHS and the judicial department to adopt selection guidelines for juveniles sentenced to the regimented juvenile training program. Specifies that a juvenile may be sentenced to the regimented juvenile training program as a condition of probation, but not in conjunction with any sentence to detention or commitment to DHS. Provides that any juvenile rejected by the program is returned to the court for resentencing. Specifies that phase I of the program consists of a 60-day residential program for 80 males. Authorizes the judicial department to administer phase II of the program by contracting with any appropriate entity for provision of aftercare services for juveniles who complete phase I. Clarifies that failure to progress through the program is considered a violation of a condition of probation.
Juvenile facilities. Authorizes DHS to use staff secure facilities in providing both preadjudication and postadjudication detention. Allows DHS to reject any juvenile from a DHS detention facility, based on lack of physical capacity at the facility. Adds day reporting and day treatment centers and staff secure facilities to the list of approved DHS facilities. Allows facilities that house or provide nonresidential services to juveniles to respond in a reasonable manner to issues of control and restraint of adjudicated juveniles. Requires each facility or program to have clearly defined policies concerning restraint and control. Grants facilities, programs, and persons employed by the facility programs immunity from liability for damages arising from acts committed in good faith to restrain a juvenile. Imposes on each facility a duty to notify the court and local law enforcement agencies on discovering that a juvenile has run away from the facility.
Taking a juvenile into custody. Instructs the screening team, rather than law enforcement, to notify the juvenile's parents and the court whenever a juvenile is held in detention. Prohibits DYC from transferring a juvenile to an adult jail because the juvenile is considered an escape or safety risk. Allows the juvenile and the juvenile's parent, guardian, or legal custodian to waive the requirement that the parent, guardian, or legal custodian be present when the juvenile is questioned by a law enforcement officer.
Violent juvenile offender. Lowers from 13 years to 10 years the age at which a juvenile may be a violent juvenile offender. Lowers from 13 or 14 years to 10 or 11 years of age the ages at which the juvenile may be eligible for an exception to the mandatory sentence for violent juvenile offenders.
Aggravated juvenile offender. Lowers from 12 years to 10 years the age at which a juvenile may be adjudicated an aggravated juvenile offender ("AJO"). Adds felony sex offenses to the crimes for which a juvenile may be adjudicated an AJO. Allows the court to commit an AJO adjudicated for a class 3 or lower felony to DHS for a determinate period of up to 5 years. Requires the court to commit an AJO adjudicated for a class 2 felony to DHS for a determinate period of up to 5 years. Requires the court to commit an AJO adjudicated for a class 1 felony to DHS for a determinate period of up to 7 years.
Direct file of charges in district court. Adds vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, and felony arson to the criminal charges that a district attorney may file against a juvenile in district court. Allows the district court to sentence as a juvenile any juvenile convicted of a lesser included offense that the district attorney could not have filed in district court. Allows the district court to appoint a guardian ad litem for any juvenile charged by direct filing in the district court or by indictment.
Transfer of charges to district court. Allows charges that allege commission of a class 1 or 2 felony or a crime of violence and that are filed against a juvenile who is 12 or 13 years of age to be transferred to district court. Requires the district court judge to sentence as a juvenile any juvenile who is convicted of a lesser included offense for which charges could not have been transferred to district court. If a juvenile under 14 years of age is sentenced as an adult, requires the department of corrections to contract with DHS to house the juvenile in a juvenile facility until the juvenile reaches 14 years of age. After filing in juvenile court, but prior to a transfer hearing, allows the district attorney to file the same or different charges in district court.
Mandatory restraining order. Includes the juvenile's parent or legal guardian in the mandatory restraining order that prevents contact with the victim or witnesses of the alleged offense.
Presentence investigation. Requires the juvenile probation department to conduct a presentence investigation, unless waived by the court. Recommends the issues to be addressed in the presentence investigation.
Juvenile sentencing. Lowers the age for commitment to DHS from 12 years to 10 years if the juvenile is adjudicated as an AJO or otherwise adjudicated for a class 3 felony. Adds a mandatory one-year period of parole to the term of commitment. Lowers the age for sentence to detention from 12 years to 10 years. Based on the expectation that a juvenile adjudicated for a class 1 or class 2 felony will be committed to DHS, prohibits a sentence to detention for such juveniles. Allows the court to order a parent to pay restitution only if the parent is a party to the proceeding and the parent is present at the restitution hearing. Deletes language that allowed a person to request DHS to review the placement of a juvenile who is held in a juvenile facility for over one year without parole consideration. Deletes the requirement that a judge review the terms and conditions of probation every 6 months.
Juveniles sentenced to department of corrections. For any juvenile sentenced to the department of corrections, requires the executive director of the department of corrections to consider the juvenile's safety in determining housing for the juvenile. Requires the department of corrections to develop a management plan for housing juvenile inmates segregated from the adult prison population and report to the general assembly by January 1, 1998.
Legislative review of juvenile facility plans. Prior to the appropriation of funds for constructing or renovating a juvenile facility, requires DHS to submit a proposed facility program plan to the capital development committee. Instructs the capital development committee to make a recommendation concerning the plan to the joint budget committee. Authorizes the general assembly to contract with a consultant to provide assistance in the review of facility program plans.
Exchange of information between schools and the juvenile court. Requires a school district to release information concerning a student within 15 days after receiving a court order for such release. If a juvenile is required to attend school as a condition of preadjudication release or as a condition of probation, requires the court to provide notice of the attendance requirement to the school in which the juvenile is enrolled and requires the school to notify the court if the juvenile fails to attend all or any portion of a school day.
Definitions. Clarifies the definition of "adjudication". Expands the definition of "basic identification information". Adds day reporting and day treatment programs to the definition of "services" for purposes of juvenile diversion programs. Defines "determinate period", "screening team", and "staff secure facility".
Siting of Denver juvenile facility. If the city and county of Denver fails to acquire an appropriate site for a new juvenile detention facility by August 1, 1996, instructs DHS to recommend to the capital development committee 3 appropriate sites for the facility in the Denver metropolitan area, and instructs the capital development committee to recommend the sites to Denver. If Denver fails to acquire one of the sites by January 1, 1997, authorizes DHS to acquire by eminent domain a site for location of the new juvenile detention facility in the Denver metropolitan area. This provision takes effect August 1, 1996, if Denver has not acquired a site by that date.
Appropriations. Appropriates $1,895,445 in general fund moneys to DHS for use in acquiring a site for a new juvenile detention facility. Out of the amount appropriated to DHS, appropriates $57,045 to the department of law. Makes this appropriation take effect August 1, 1996, if Denver has not acquired a site by that date.
Appropriates $621,934 in general fund moneys to the judicial department for implementation of the act. Appropriates $164,342 in general fund moneys to the judicial department for allocation to probation and related services. Appropriates $91,756 in general fund moneys to the judicial department for allocation to the public defender's office. Appropriates $29,171 in general fund moneys to the department of corrections for allocation to the division of management, jail backlog subprogram. Appropriates $245,041, of which $215,870 is from general fund moneys and $29,171 is from cash funds exempt, to DHS for allocation to DYC.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 1996
PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 3, 1996, August 1, 1996, January 1, 1997
H.B. 96-1017 Children's Code - information management - programmatic review and evaluation of programs - standardized accounting standards - confidentiality - centralized integrated data base system study - appropriation. Programmatic reviews. Beginning January 1, 1997, requires the state auditor's office to conduct or cause to be conducted programmatic reviews and evaluations of state or federally funded prevention and intervention programs for children and families ("programmatic reviews"). Directs the executive director of each agency administering such a program and the state court administrator to submit a list of the programs that they administer to the state auditor's office. Specifies the priority and frequency of such programmatic reviews. On and after July 1, 1997, requires all service providers receiving federal or state moneys to use the accounting standards of the governmental accounting standards board.
Authorizes the state auditor to contract with one or more public or private entities to conduct the programmatic reviews and prepare annual summaries of them. Requires the staffs of the joint budget committee and the legislative council to work with the state auditor's office. Allows the state auditor's office and any other person assisting the auditor's office to have access to all records and information related to persons served by the programs being reviewed and requires them to maintain the confidentiality of the information received.
Requires the state auditor's office to report periodically on the programmatic reviews to the legislative audit committee, the governor, the executive directors of the affected agencies, the state court administrator, and the health, environment, welfare, and institutions committees or the judiciary committees, as determined by the legislative audit committee. Also requires the state auditor's office to submit an annual summary of the programmatic reviews to the legislative committee of reference.
Beginning in 1998, requires the appropriate legislative committee of reference to review the annual summary of each programmatic review and to recommend to the joint budget committee whether the state should continue funding the program. Allows the committee of reference to submit legislation to discontinue the statutory authority for a program.
Exchange of information. Allows the judicial department and agencies that maintain information about children pursuant to the "Colorado Children's Code" to exchange certain information with other agencies and the judicial department. Authorizes school personnel to obtain information necessary to perform their legal duties and requires them to maintain the confidentiality of the information obtained.
Requires the state court administrator and the executive directors of affected agencies to develop a consent and release form ("consent form") for the voluntary exchange of information. Provides that a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child under 16 years of age may sign the consent form and that a child 16 years of age or older may sign the consent form on his or her own behalf. Requires the judicial department, agencies, and providers to inform persons about the consequences of signing the consent form. Describes a procedure for authorizing the exchange of information in involuntary cases that includes notice of a hearing. Specifies that a person who signs a consent form waives the notice required in involuntary cases.
Relocation of provisions. Consolidates records provisions throughout the "Colorado Children's Code" into a single statutory part.
Juvenile records. Allows the victim and the complaining party to have access to juvenile delinquency court records. Permits the complaining party to have access to law enforcement records related to a juvenile delinquency case upon authorization by the prosecuting attorney.
Changes the statutory provisions concerning the expungement of juvenile records as follows:
Dependency and neglect records. Restricts a court from prohibiting disclosure of identifying dependency and neglect information when an alleged juvenile offender is a victim of abuse or neglect or when the suspected perpetrator is arrested or charged by law enforcement.
Tracking. Sets forth a process for establishing business and technology plans for a centralized integrated data base system to track children subject to the "Colorado Children's Code". Creates the children's information management committee to develop a legislative proposal for the 1999 session to implement the business and technology plans.
Adjusts the appropriations made to the departments of human services and higher education in the 1996 long bill for the implementation of this act.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 1996
EFFECTIVE January 1, 1997
H.B. 96-1019 Children's Code - definitions. Consolidates definitions currently contained in many sections of the "Colorado Children's Code" into one statutory provision.
APPROVED by Governor March 20, 1996
PORTIONS EFFECTIVE March 20, 1996, July 1, 1996
H.B. 96-1183 Child support enforcement procedures - deductions for health insurance - notice to health insurance provider. Enacts a procedure that applies to a child support obligor who provides health insurance coverage for a child pursuant to a court order through an insurance provider other than one available to the obligor through his or her employment. Requires the obligee, the obligee's representative, or the delegate child support enforcement unit to send written notice by first-class mail to the insurance provider identifying that the obligor is under a court order to provide health insurance coverage for the child. Specifies that the notice must inform the insurance provider that it is required to notify the obligee, the obligee's representative, or the delegate child support enforcement unit of any cancellation in the coverage.
APPROVED by Governor May 1, 1996
EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996
H.B. 96-1208 Reports concerning children - child custody evaluations - reports to the central registry - appropriation. Requires that a person who signs child custody evaluation reports and supervises the preparation of such reports be a licensed mental health professional. Recognizes that such mental health professional may have associates working for him or her who are unlicensed.
Effective April 1, 1997, requires the director of the central registry to send a notice to a person whose name the director receives for placement on the central registry. Specifies the contents of the notice, including information concerning the person's right to review of the investigation by the director of the central registry and to an administrative hearing to determine whether the record of the report is accurate and there is a preponderance of the evidence to support a finding of child abuse and neglect. Places the burden of proof at the hearing on the department of human services. Exempts persons who have been convicted of criminal child abuse from the right to this hearing. Requires the department to report the number of persons requesting a fair hearing.
Provides that, if a subject is acquitted of criminal child abuse charges or if a petition in dependency and neglect on which the subject is a named respondent is not sustained or if no petition is filed, the director of the central registry may expunge the record of the report. Instructs the director to send notice of expungement to the subject. If the record is not expunged, requires the director to send notice to the subject that he or she may request a hearing at which the department of human services will be required to show by clear and convincing evidence why the subject's name should not be removed from the registry.
Appropriates $412,328 from the general fund to the department of human services, of which $190,997 cash funds exempt shall be appropriated to the department of personnel and $62,322 cash funds exempt shall be appropriated to the department of law.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 1996
EFFECTIVE January 1, 1997
H.B. 96-1291 Same sex marriages - invalid - prohibited. Creates an exception to the provision that all marriages validly contracted outside this state are valid in Colorado to provide that same sex marriages shall not be valid. Prohibits marriages between persons of the same sex in Colorado.
VETOED by Governor March 25, 1996
H.B. 96-1363 Juvenile justice - sentencing - alternative services. Authorizes a judge to sentence a juvenile to alternative community services. Allows a judge to sentence a juvenile to up to 45 days detention only if the juvenile is failing to make satisfactory progress in alternative community services or if a sentence to alternative services would be contrary to the community interest. Limits use of state moneys for juvenile alternative services to services that are intended: To prevent the juvenile from being held in detention prior to adjudication or prior to being sentenced to detention or committed to the department of human services; or to reduce the length of time the juvenile is held in preadjudication or postadjudication detention or in a commitment facility.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 1996
EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996
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