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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 750Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017 An act relating to criminal law. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 750, as introduced, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency.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.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows: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. | |
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| 3 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 750Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017 An act relating to criminal law. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 750, as introduced, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency.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.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO | |
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| 5 | - | Amended IN Assembly March 30, 2017 | |
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| 7 | - | Amended IN Assembly March 30, 2017 | |
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| 9 | 9 | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION | |
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| 11 | 11 | Assembly Bill No. 750 | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by Assembly Member GallagherFebruary 15, 2017 | |
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| 15 | 15 | Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher | |
| 16 | 16 | February 15, 2017 | |
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| 18 | - | An act relating to criminal law. | |
| 18 | + | An act relating to criminal law. | |
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| 20 | 20 | LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 22 | 22 | ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 24 | - | AB 750, as | |
| 24 | + | AB 750, as introduced, Gallagher. Criminal law: competency. | |
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| 26 | - | 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. | |
| 26 | + | 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. | |
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| 28 | 28 | 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. | |
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| 30 | 30 | 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. | |
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| 34 | - | 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. | |
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| 36 | 32 | ## Digest Key | |
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| 38 | 34 | ## Bill Text | |
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| 40 | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. | |
| 36 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: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. | |
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| 42 | 38 | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 44 | 40 | ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 46 | - | SECTION 1. The | |
| 42 | + | 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. | |
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| 48 | - | SECTION 1. The | |
| 44 | + | 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. | |
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| 50 | - | SECTION 1. The | |
| 46 | + | 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. | |
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| 52 | 48 | ### SECTION 1. | |
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| 56 | - | 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. |