Bill Text: NJ S2113 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires notification of law enforcement for furlough or discharge of certain patients from State psychiatric hospitals.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S2113 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2113-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator SEAN T. KEAN
District 11 (Monmouth)
Senator DIANE B. ALLEN
District 7 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Requires notification of law enforcement for furlough or discharge of certain patients from State psychiatric hospitals.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certain psychiatric patients and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. If a patient in a State psychiatric hospital listed in R.S.30:1-7 who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity for murder pursuant to N.J.S.2C:11-3 is granted a furlough for a temporary stay in the community or is discharged, prior to the patient taking the furlough or being discharged, the chief executive officer of the psychiatric hospital, or his designee, shall notify law enforcement agencies likely to encounter the patient of the patient's furlough or discharge from the facility, as applicable.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the chief executive officer of a State psychiatric hospital listed in R.S.30:1-7, or his designee, to notify applicable law enforcement agencies if a patient who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity for murder is granted a furlough for a temporary stay in the community or is discharged from the facility.
