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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
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  • We're not changing juvenile authority.
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Committee: Senate Judiciary
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 16th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • April 16th, 2025 as Texas Juvenile Justice Professional Day at the State Capitol.
  • These departments work in close partnership with the Texas Juvenile Justice.
  • Juvenile Probation Chief and Chair of one William Carter.
  • Texas, a dedicated staff from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
  • They could have special immigrant juvenile status. They could have DACA.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Either one of those actions gets you to a juvenile detention setting.
  • I've checked with juvenile detention centers; only two of them have a capacity issue.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 9th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • of juvenile stuff on that.
  • If there is maybe something for juveniles and the protection for our youth, I do agree.
  • And in most of those courthouses, as we all know here, juvenile matters are closed hearings.
  • Let's go with the juvenile court. Let's go with the juvenile court, which is 538. HB 538, Ms.
  • I'm Gail Grover, Judge, Juvenile Court here in East Baton Rouge Parish and Division B.
Committee: House Judiciary
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Apr 7th, 2026

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • When I was in the district attorney's office, I was in the juvenile unit, and I spent a lot of time in
  • the juvenile unit.
  • , so I was with CBCS and spent time as a defense attorney representing juveniles.
  • the juvenile unit.
  • , so I was with CBCS and spent time as a defense attorney representing juveniles.
Bills: H4783 , H4826 , H4876 , H5111 , H5116 , H5244 , S2975 , S2976