Bill Title: Enacts "Renee's Law"; directs the commissioner of children and family services to provide training to all employees of programs and facilities in which youths are placed or committed; grants access to office of children and family services' records, juvenile delinquency records, youthful offender records and juvenile offender records of youths placed or committed to a facility, to staff members and employees who are exposed to such youths and to foster parents who take custody of such person after his or her release; grants courts and attorneys access to such records in any proceeding for the commission of a crime while a youth is in the custody of the office of children and family services; prohibits the release, discharge or transfer of any youth who has engaged in criminal activity while in custody; requires the reporting to law enforcement authorities of criminal activity by a youth in the custody of the office of children and family services; requires a police officer to escort an employee sent to find a youth who is absent without authorization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00555 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Senate Finance Committee Vote	2018-05-22	32	5	0	0	37	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Children and Families Committee Vote	2018-01-09	5	2	0	0	7	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage	2017-05-09	57	5	0	0	62	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Finance Committee Vote	2017-04-25	31	3	0	3	37	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Children and Families Committee Vote	2017-02-07	5	2	0	0	7	Passed	Link	View

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