California 2017 2017-2018 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB750 Amended / Bill

Filed 03/30/2017

                    Amended IN  Assembly  March 30, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 750Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017 An act relating to criminal law. law, and making an appropriation therefor.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 750, as amended, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency. competency: State Department of State Hospitals: appropriation.Existing law requires, if a defendant in a criminal proceeding is found mentally incompetent, the trial or judgment to be suspended until the person becomes mentally competent. Existing law requires the court to order a mentally incompetent defendant to be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered, as directed by the State Department of State Hospitals, or to any other available public or private treatment facility approved by the community program director that will promote the defendants speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3  Appropriation: NOYES  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The sum of ___ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 30, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 750Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017 An act relating to criminal law. law, and making an appropriation therefor.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 750, as amended, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency. competency: State Department of State Hospitals: appropriation.Existing law requires, if a defendant in a criminal proceeding is found mentally incompetent, the trial or judgment to be suspended until the person becomes mentally competent. Existing law requires the court to order a mentally incompetent defendant to be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered, as directed by the State Department of State Hospitals, or to any other available public or private treatment facility approved by the community program director that will promote the defendants speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3  Appropriation: NOYES  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO 

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 30, 2017

Amended IN  Assembly  March 30, 2017

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 750

Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017

Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher
February 15, 2017

 An act relating to criminal law. law, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 750, as amended, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency. competency: State Department of State Hospitals: appropriation.

Existing law requires, if a defendant in a criminal proceeding is found mentally incompetent, the trial or judgment to be suspended until the person becomes mentally competent. Existing law requires the court to order a mentally incompetent defendant to be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered, as directed by the State Department of State Hospitals, or to any other available public or private treatment facility approved by the community program director that will promote the defendants speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

Existing law requires, if a defendant in a criminal proceeding is found mentally incompetent, the trial or judgment to be suspended until the person becomes mentally competent. Existing law requires the court to order a mentally incompetent defendant to be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered, as directed by the State Department of State Hospitals, or to any other available public or private treatment facility approved by the community program director that will promote the defendants speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status, as specified.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.



This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The sum of ___ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum of ___ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

SECTION 1. The sum of ___ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

SECTION 1. The sum of ___ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

### SECTION 1.



It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the number of persons found incompetent to stand trial who are waiting for a bed at a State Department of State Hospitals facility.