Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-96-R1

Redraft JUD 96

Gloucester Juvenile Court

Mr. Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended moved that the bill be amended by inserting, after section__, the following new section:-

"Notwithstanding any general or special act, law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Chief Justice of the Juvenile Court, in consultation with the municipal officials, police departments, school systems, human service agencies involved with child welfare, and other stakeholders as the justice may deem appropriate which are within the jurisdiction of the Gloucester District Court, shall study the feasibility of developing and implementing a plan to ensure access to the juvenile court by the communities served by the Gloucester District Court through the presence of a satellite juvenile court housed in the Gloucester District Court and operating for the number of hours and days per month necessary to provide such access."