SB0900 - Tennessee: Courts, Juvenile, Juvenile Offenders

Companion Bill HB0490. Courts, Juvenile - Clarifies that a petition alleging that a juvenile is an unruly child may be filed by law enforcement; allows a juvenile court to order counseling for an unruly child by a youth services officer, and allows a parent who willfully fails to attend such counseling to be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39. Fiscal Summary for SB0900 / *HB0490Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB0900 / *HB0490 Under present law, a proceeding under the juvenile court provisions may be commenced by transfer of a case from another court, by the court accepting jurisdiction or accepting supervision of a child, or, in other cases, by the filing of a petition. One provision of present [...]

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