Topeka ? Kansas legislators have agreed on a sweeping measure that would overhaul the juvenile justice system by offering community-based services to juvenile offenders.

The Senate Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice voted Wednesday to close group homes for juvenile offenders in July 2018. The bill also proposes to create a team to review cases with the input of families and educators.

Republican committee Chairman Greg Smith from Overland Park says community-based programs that address such things as anger management for low and mid-level juvenile offenders would offer the greatest change to the system.

Smith says the full Senate will vote on the bill by next week.