Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1420
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/20/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Sobel) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
    2  
    3         Delete lines 134 - 147
    4  and insert:
    5  (Substantial rewording of section. See s. 916.145, F.S., for
    6  present text.)
    7         916.145 Dismissal of charges.—
    8         (1) The charges against any defendant adjudicated
    9  incompetent to proceed due to mental illness shall be dismissed
   10  without prejudice to the state if the defendant remains
   11  incompetent to proceed:
   12         (a) 3 years after such determination; or
   13         (b) 5 years after such determination if the charge related
   14  to commitment is:
   15         1. Arson;
   16         2. Sexual Battery;
   17         3. Robbery;
   18         4. Kidnapping;
   19         5. Aggravated child abuse;
   20         6. Aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult;
   21         7. Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon;
   22         8. Murder;
   23         9. Manslaughter;
   24         10. Aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or
   25  disabled adult;
   26         11. Aggravated manslaughter of a child;
   27         12. Unlawful throwing, placing or discharging of a
   28  destructive device or bomb;
   29         13. Armed burglary;
   30         14. Aggravated battery; or
   31         15. Aggravated stalking.
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   33         Unless the court, in an order, specifies reasons for
   34  believing that the defendant will become competent to proceed,
   35  and specifies a reasonable time within which the defendant is
   36  expected to become competent.
   37         (2) Nothing in this section of law shall be construed to
   38  prohibit the state from refiling dismissed charges, should the
   39  defendant be declared to be competent to proceed in the future.
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