Senate Judiciary advances language to link competency-restoration process to NGRI rules; committee seeks Wellpath testimony
The Senate Judiciary committee continued work on S.193, agreeing to apply language from the not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity (NGRI) provisions to people the court finds unlikely to be restored to competency, and asked for testimony from contractor Wellpath and the state's attorney before a final vote.
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Karen Barber, general counsel for the Department of Mental Health, told the Senate Judiciary committee on Feb. 26 that the state already provides involuntary mental-health care for people in custody and has trained Department of Corrections staff as "qualified mental health practitioners" to perform the first certification step.
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