Florida Senate Bill 1712 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Budget
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Authorizing, in certain circumstances, continuation of psychotherapeutic medication for individuals receiving such medication in a jail before admission to a psychiatric or forensic facility; requiring forensic evaluator training for mental health experts appointed to evaluate defendants for competency to proceed or for sanity at the time of the commission of the offense; requiring the Department of Children and Family Services to maintain and annually provide the courts with a forensic evaluator registry; standardizing the protocols, procedures, and criteria used in reporting expert findings in determining competency in juvenile cases; revising requirements related to the forensic evaluator training program that appointed experts must complete; requiring experts after a specified date to have completed such training, etc.

Mental Health

Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Sen. Ronda Storms [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Budget
2012-03-01		Now in Budget
2012-03-01		Withdrawn from Children, Families, and Elder Affairs -SJ 726
2012-02-21		CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time -SJ 540
2012-02-20		Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs -SJ 524
2012-02-17		Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2012-02-16		CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 -SJ 524
2012-02-14		On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/16/12, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Office Building
2012-01-31		References corrected to Criminal Justice; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Budget -SJ 300
2012-01-31		Original reference(s) removed: Health Regulation
2012-01-17		Introduced -SJ 229
2012-01-17		Referred to Criminal Justice; Health Regulation; Budget -SJ 229
2012-01-06		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
916	107		Amended Code	See Bill Text
916	111		Amended Code	See Bill Text
916	115		Amended Code	See Bill Text
916	13		Amended Code	See Bill Text
916	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	19		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1712
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1712/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1712/BillText/c1/HTML