Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2018
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/15/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Wilson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (666560) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 593 - 596
    5  and insert:
    6  purpose of holding a competency hearing, unless the defendant
    7  can be transported directly to the competency hearing without
    8  first returning to a county jail.
    9         (c) A competency hearing must be held within 30 days after
   10  the court receives notification that the defendant is competent
   11  to proceed or no longer meets criteria for continued commitment.
   12         (d) In preparation for a competency hearing, all parties,
   13  including community forensic case managers and department
   14  forensic coordinators when applicable, shall attempt to prepare
   15  and propose to the court a community treatment plan that shall
   16  be considered during the same court appearance as the competency
   17  hearing whenever feasible. Specific conditions in a proposed
   18  community treatment plan may be adapted to pretrial release
   19  orders, conditional release orders, plea and sentencing orders
   20  of probation, and modifications of conditional release. Whenever
   21  feasible, a defendant should be released to community placement
   22  without returning to a county jail.
   23         (e) A defendant being discharged from state treatment
   24  facilities under this chapter shall be provided a 30-day supply
   25  of psychotropic medications to accommodate continuity of care at
   26  the level of treatment which successfully prepared the defendant
   27  for competency or to no longer meet the requirement for
   28  continued commitment.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31         And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 801 - 803
   33  and insert:
   34         evaluator registry; amending s. 916.13, F.S.;
   35         providing timeframes for competency hearings to be
   36         held; requiring forensic case managers and
   37         coordinators to attempt to prepare a community
   38         treatment plan to the court for a competency hearing;
   39         requiring certain defendants to be supplied a
   40         specified amount of psychotropic medications; amending
   41         s. 916.15, F.S.; providing timeframes