Committee narrows DOC role in proposed forensic facility, asks AHS for interim restoration program
At its May 14 meeting the House Corrections & Institutions Committee instructed staff to add language limiting the Department of Correctionsto perimeter and admitting-area security at any forensic facility on a correctional campus, and asked the Agency of Human Services to develop an interim competency restoration program delivered outside DOC contracts (committee discussed a 2028 sunset/Jan. 1 effective date).
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The House Corrections & Institutions Committee on May 14 refined drafting language for a bill that would create a forensic facility and an interim competency restoration program, clarifying that the Department of Corrections (DOC) should not operate or staff the facility but may provide security at the admitting area and around the outside perimeter if the facility sits on a correctional campus.
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