Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1600
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/16/2022           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
       (Bradley) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 20 - 43
    4  and insert:
    5  facility established within the department or agency, or
    6  contracted using department funding, to serve forensic clients.
    7  A separate and secure facility means a security-grade building
    8  for the purpose of separately housing persons who have mental
    9  illness from persons who have intellectual disabilities or
   10  autism and separately housing persons who have been
   11  involuntarily committed pursuant to this chapter from
   12  nonforensic residents. The term includes a mental health
   13  facility operated by a community mental health provider which
   14  may be colocated in a county jail and which is deemed
   15  appropriate by the department.
   16         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 916.13, Florida
   17  Statutes, is amended to read:
   18         916.13 Involuntary commitment of defendant adjudicated
   19  incompetent.—
   20         (2) A defendant who has been charged with a felony and who
   21  has been adjudicated incompetent to proceed due to mental
   22  illness, and who meets the criteria for involuntary commitment
   23  under this chapter, may be committed to the department, and the
   24  department shall retain and treat the defendant. Restoration
   25  treatment for a forensic client who has been committed to the
   26  department, who is held in a jail awaiting admission to a
   27  forensic facility, and who is likely to regain competence to
   28  proceed in the foreseeable future may be provided at any
   29  forensic facility deemed appropriate by the department
   30  secretary.
   31  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete lines 5 - 10
   34  and insert:
   35         facility”; amending s. 916.13, F.S.; providing that
   36         restoration treatment for a forensic client who meets
   37         certain criteria may receive treatment at any facility
   38         designated by the department; providing an effective