Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017
Latest action · Apr 4, 2017 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 4, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017
This bill amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to modify the deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO) core requirement with which a state must comply to receive funds under the Formula Grant Program. The DSO core requirement prohibits the secure detention or confinement of a juvenile who commits a status offense (i.e., an offense that would not be a crime if committed by an adult).
This bill eliminates an exception to the DSO core requirement that permits the secure detention or confinement of an out-of-state runaway youth.
It also eliminates, not later than one year after enactment, an exception to the DSO core requirement that permits the secure detention or confinement of a juvenile status offender who violates a valid court order. Until then, use of the valid court order exception to securely detain or confine a juvenile status offender must comply with additional requirements, such as issuance of a written court order and a three-day maximum length of detention.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 4, 2017 to Jul 26, 2018; 10 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Apr 4, 2017 |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Apr 25, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Apr 27, 2017 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | May 1, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | May 8, 2017 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Jan 9, 2018 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Jul 26, 2018 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Apr 4, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 4, 2017Introduced in House
- Apr 4, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 58, April 4, 2017, page H2697.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 866 | Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017 | Related bill | Apr 6, 2017 |
| HR 3782 | Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2015 | Reintroduction of | Mar 23, 2016 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to eliminate the use of valid court orders to secure lockup of status offenders, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Prohibiting Detention of Youth Status Offenders Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 4, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
