'Directly Impacted Child Rehab and Safety Act

This bill would change federal law on how juveniles are handled in federal courts. It would set a minimum age of 12 for federal juvenile delinquency cases, raise the age at which a juvenile can be moved to adult court from 15 to 16, remove a rule requiring transfer of certain repeat offenders to adult court, and add factors such as childhood trauma and rehabilitation potential for judges to consider. It would bar placing juveniles in adult jails, correctional institutions, or prisons, and would limit murder liability for people under 18 to those who killed intentionally or knowingly, or who helped with intent to kill. It would require the Bureau of Justice Statistics to publish yearly data on children prosecuted and held by the federal government. It would also let the Secretary of Health and Human Services give competitive grants to state child welfare and juvenile justice agencies to work together on serving certain groups of children.

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Sponsors

• Sydney Kamlager-Dove Democrat sponsor
• 8 cosponsors