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Committee moves S193 amendments limiting DOC security role to admitting area, sets sunset
Summary
The House Corrections and Institutions Committee on May 14 advanced amendments to S193 (feasibility plan for competency restoration), restricting Department of Corrections security to admitting areas (and perimeter if collocated) and noting a sunset for that provision on Jan. 1, 2028; the draft was sent toward House Judiciary and the floor for further action.
The House Corrections and Institutions Committee met May 14 to continue work on S193, a bill that would establish a feasibility plan for competency restoration and a forensic facility. The chair said the panel was considering a proposal to involve the Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide clinical as well as security services as part of the feasibility plan.
After discussion, the committee held a straw vote on the proposal to include DOC-run clinical and security services in the feasibility plan; the chair announced the straw vote outcome as "on a 6-5 vote." The committee then reviewed a set of edits proposed by a member identified in the transcript as Eric. Eric's draft, posted on the committee webpage and printed for members, would limit DOC's role so that "DOC may provide security services for the facility at the admitting area of and around the outside perimeter"—language that appears in multiple places in the draft (notably the facility plan pages referenced by members).
Committee members spent time reconciling where Eric's language appears in the bill text (discussion referenced pages 1, 27, 28 and section 7). Members discussed corrections to the definitions so the Department of Corrections "shall not play a role in the forensic facility's operation ... provision of services or internal security except to provide security services for the facility at the admitting area and around the outside perimeter if the facilities [are] collocated." That limiting language and a sunset clause were marked in the draft.
The transcript records a sunset for the DOC-related provision set to take effect on January 1, 2028, timed to when the forensic facility is expected to come online. Committee discussion emphasized the placement of the language in the feasibility plan and the facility plan and confirmed the blue/edited text was visible in members' copies.
A committee member moved to introduce the amendments and forward the revised draft to the House Judiciary Committee; another member seconded the motion. The chair called for a show-of-hands vote; the transcript records "All those opposed 10" but does not clearly record the final yes count in the audio text. The committee concluded its meeting and the chair said the body will be on the floor at 9:30 a.m. the next day to continue work.
"We're working again on our most favorite bill 193," the chair said at the opening of the session. Eric, whose edits were discussed at length, stated in discussion (as recorded in the draft language) that "DOC may provide security services for the facility at the admitting area of and around the outside perimeter." The committee made no formal, fully documented final adoption on the floor during this session; the transcript shows the amendments were prepared to be presented to House Judiciary and taken up on the floor the following day.
Next steps: the committee sent the amended draft toward House Judiciary and planned floor consideration the next day; the transcript notes remaining work on additional revisions that members expected to see before final floor debate.
