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Committee tables bill on mental-health evaluations for detained defendants
2695239 · March 19, 2025
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Summary
Senate Judiciary tabled House Bill 236 after a substitute motion. Senators questioned whether the bill would change current practice for evaluations of detained defendants with mental-health issues and whether it shifted authority between the Department of Public Health and Human Services and Department of Corrections.
The committee took up executive action on House Bill 236, an act concerning evaluations in detention for defendants when mental disease or disorder is at issue and…
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