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Committee hears Competency Attainment Board bill; board requests policy tweaks and funding to expand forensic navigator program
Summary
House File 3070, presented by the Competency Attainment Board, requests policy clarifications and increased funding to support forensic navigators who help defendants attain competency for criminal proceedings. The committee laid the bill over after hearing that the program has grown to 24 navigators with plans to reach 30.
House File 3070, carried by Representative Liebling on behalf of the Competency Attainment Board, was presented and laid over for further consideration after testimony from Kim Larson, the state program administrator for the board.
The bill seeks two categories of changes: (1) policy clarifications to more precisely state that forensic navigators "monitor" (rather than "supervise") defendants to avoid conflation with probation or pretrial supervision, and to eliminate a duplicative data-collection requirement by relying on…
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