Florida Senate Bill 770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Defining the term "serious mental illness"; prohibiting the imposition of a sentence of death upon a defendant convicted of a capital felony if the defendant had a serious mental illness at the time the criminal offense was committed; requiring a defendant to provide a certain notice if he or she intends to raise serious mental illness as a bar to a sentence of death; requiring certain court orders if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant had a serious mental illness at the time of the commission of the criminal offense, etc.

Serious Mental Illness as Bar to Sentence of Death

Sen. Jeffrey Brandes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Criminal Justice
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-11	Senate	Introduced
2021-11-16	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Appropriations
2021-11-02	Senate	Filed

H1251 (Same As) 2022-03-14 - Died in Criminal Justice & Public Safety Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
921	135		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/770
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/770/BillText/Filed/HTML