Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation S0818
Legislation Overview
Title: Mental Health
Description: Authorizing public defenders and regional counsel to have access to persons held in a facility licensed under chapter 394 or chapter 397; requiring that respondents with a serious mental illness be afforded essential elements of care and placed in a continuum of care regimen; authorizing the state to establish that a transfer evaluation was performed by providing the court with a copy of the evaluation before the close of the state's case in chief; revising the requirements for when a person may be taken to a receiving facility for involuntary examination, etc.
Session: 2019 Regular Session
Last Action: Died in Judiciary
Last Action Date: May 3, 2019
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Lauren Book (D);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | May 3, 2019 | Died in Judiciary |
| Senate | May 3, 2019 | Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration |
| Senate | Mar 19, 2019 | Now in Judiciary |
| Senate | Mar 18, 2019 | Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 |
| Senate | Mar 13, 2019 | On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/18/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building |
| Senate | Mar 5, 2019 | Introduced |
| Senate | Feb 15, 2019 | Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Appropriations |
| Senate | Feb 6, 2019 | Filed |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 6, 2019 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
