BILL · 1999–00 SESSION
SB 5458: Guilty & mentally ill verdct
Authorizing a new finding of "guilty and mentally ill" in criminal trials.
Summary
- Declares an intent to increase the accuracy of jury verdicts, to ensure just sentencing under the standards of the sentencing reform act for offenders who are mentally ill but not insane, to ensure that offenders who are mentally ill but not insane are kept securely confined and have access to treatment within available resources, and to reduce the incentive for the raising of meritless insanity pleas.
From the Bill Digest (SB 5458), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 22, 1999
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Jeralita "Jeri" Costa (D-38)
- Introduced
- January 22, 1999 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 10, 2000
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Jeralita "Jeri" Costa (D-38)
5 co-sponsors (3 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
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SB 5458 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
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- SB 5458 (2019–20) Building trades apprentices
- SB 5458 (2017–18) Community impact statements
- SB 5458 (2015–16) Health district banking
- SB 5458 (2013–14) Asbestos/building materials
- SB 5458 (2011–12) Medicaid fraud