Georgia House Bill 1353 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on February 14 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-17 - House Second Readers
Pending: House Judiciary - Non-Civil Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issues of insanity and mental incompetency in pretrial proceedings, so as to provide that evaluations to determine whether there is a substantial probability that an accused will attain mental competency to stand trial be conducted on an outpatient basis for an accused who is charged with a misdemeanor offense; to provide that treatment to determine if an accused will attain competency within a 90 day period be provided on an outpatient basis for an accused who is charged with a misdemeanor offense; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Criminal procedure; evaluations to determine mental competency to stand trial; provisions

Rep. Katie Dempsey [R]	Rep. Chuck Efstration [R]	Rep. Sharon Cooper [R]	Rep. Mary Oliver [D]
Rep. Todd Jones [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-17	House	House Second Readers
2022-02-15	House	House First Readers
2022-02-14	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/62104
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/206585