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SB 2576: Competency to Proceed

GENERAL BILL by Haridopolos

Competency to Proceed; requires expert appointed to examine defendant to evaluate defendant with mental illness in facility of DOC when appropriate; requires defendant be returned to custody of DOC after charges against defendant are dismissed but defendant has active sentence with dept.; prohibits court from ordering conditional release if defendant with mental illness has active sentence with DOC, etc. Amends Chs. 916, 945, 922.07.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  3/8/2005	Senate	• Filed
  3/30/2005	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Judiciary; Children and Families; Criminal Justice; Justice Appropriations -SJ 00302
  4/7/2005	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/12/05, 9:00 am, 401-S --Temporarily postponed
  5/6/2005	Senate	• Died in Committee on Judiciary

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• SB 2576, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 3/8/2005 at 12:08 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Judiciary (Post-Meeting) 4/11/2005 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 1831	Inmates under Sentence of Death	Criminal Justice Committee	Compare	Last Action: 5/6/2005 H Died in Justice Council Location:

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  634498 - Amendment	Judiciary (Posey)	4/12/2005 2:32 PM		Web Page PDF

  Citations - Statutes (12)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  916.115	Appointment of experts.
  916.145	Adjudication of incompetency due to mental illness; dismissal of charges.
  916.17	Conditional release.
  916.301	Appointment of experts.
  916.304	Conditional release.
  922.07	Proceedings when person under sentence of death appears to be insane.
  945.41	Legislative intent of ss. 945.40-945.49.
  945.42	Definitions; ss. 945.40-945.49.
  945.501
  945.502
  945.503
  945.504

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