No. SB 702
Filed under Healthcare.
Mental Health Programs for Gun Violence Prevention; Requiring IMPACT GNV of the City of Gainesville, in collaboration with certain entities, to develop and implement the Gun Violence Prevention Pilot Program; providing alternatives to incarceration for specified youth; requiring the City of Gainesville, in collaboration with Alachua County, to annually submit a specified report to IMPACT GNV by a specified date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $500,000
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDIMPACT GNV of Gainesville must create a pilot program offering mental health services, conflict-resolution training, and alternatives to incarceration for people age 10 to 21 who are at risk of gun violence, as victims, offenders, or returning from juvenile detention.
Participants and their family members can get individual, group, and family therapy, trauma-focused treatment, substance-abuse treatment, and help earning a GED or finding a job, developed with the public defender, state attorney, and Department of Juvenile Justice.
The public defender's, state attorney's, and juvenile justice offices can refer participants into existing dependency, diversion, and firearm-offender programs. Gainesville and Alachua County must report participant and outcome data every year starting in 2027.
The state appropriates $500,000 in one-time funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to start the program. The entire program, and the law creating it, expires automatically on June 30, 2030.
AIIMPACT GNV of the City of Gainesville must build and run a pilot program with the Department of Juvenile Justice, the state attorney, and the public defender for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, offering mental health services and alternatives to incarceration.
AIA participant must be age 10 to 21 and at moderate or high risk of being a victim of gun violence, an offender who caused bodily harm or death, or someone returning from a delinquency residential program, or a family member of such a person.
AIThe program must give participants access to a specific list of services, including individual, group, and family therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, art and music therapy, and substance-abuse treatment, plus mediation training and relationship restoration.
AIParticipants involved with the delinquency system can be referred by the public defender, state attorney, or Department of Juvenile Justice into the existing dependency program, the juvenile diversion program, or the class for firearm offenders.
AIStarting October 31, 2027, Gainesville and Alachua County must report participant counts, gun-violence-rate impact, risk-factor data, and participant feedback every year. IMPACT GNV must separately report to the Governor and legislative leaders by December 31 each year.
AIThe entire section creating the pilot program, its funding authority, and its requirements automatically expires on a fixed date, ending the program unless the Legislature separately acts to renew or replace it before then.
AIFor the 2026-2027 fiscal year, $500,000 in nonrecurring General Revenue funds is appropriated to the Department of Children and Families specifically to implement this program.