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Ohio Senate approves emergency measure extending competency-restoration timeline in serious cases
Summary
The Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 295 as an emergency measure, allowing tolling when defendants refuse treatment, requiring hospital notice within 14 days, and extending competency-restoration timelines up to five years in the most serious cases; the vote was 31–0.
The Ohio Senate on Nov. 10 passed Senate Bill 295 as an emergency measure to change how courts and hospitals handle competency restoration for defendants facing the most serious charges.
Sen. Manning, a sponsor who outlined the bill’s genesis in a Cuyahoga County case, said the measure would let courts “pause” the one-year restoration clock if a defendant refuses medication or otherwise fails to follow a treatment plan, and would require the treatment facility’s chief clinical officer to notify the court within 14 days of such a refusal. “We’re allowing tolling of the time,” Manning said on the…
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