Florida Senate Bill 1156 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on April 30 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-30 - Died in Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibiting the imposing of a sentence of death upon a defendant convicted of a capital felony if the defendant had a serious mental illness at the time of committing the offense; requiring a defendant to provide a certain notice if he or she intends to raise serious mental illness as a bar to a death sentence; requiring the defendant to file a written motion if he or she intends to raise serious mental illness as a bar to a death sentence; 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 crime, etc.

Serious Mental Illness as Bar to Execution

Sen. Jeffrey Brandes [R]

2021-03-30 - Senate - Senate Criminal Justice (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-30	Senate	Died in Judiciary
2021-03-30	Senate	Now in Judiciary
2021-03-30	Senate	Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
2021-03-25	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/30/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
2021-03-02	Senate	Introduced
2021-02-18	Senate	Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
2021-02-09	Senate	Filed

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1156
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1156/BillText/Filed/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1156/Analyses/2021s01156.pre.cj.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1156/Analyses/2021s01156.cj.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1156/Vote/2021-03-30%200900AM~S01156%20Vote%20Record.PDF