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Prosecution of Defendants; Specifies that it is defense to prosecution under any law that defendant, as result of mental disease or defect, lacked culpable mental state required as element of crime charged; specifies that mental disease or defect is not otherwise defense to prosecution under any law; removes affirmative defense to criminal prosecution that, at time of commission of acts constituting offense, defendant was insane; revises mitigating circumstance under which departure from lowest permissible sentence is reasonably justified; authorizes incorporation into convicted defendant's criminal sentence certain specialized treatment for mental health disease or defects; specifies that certain provisions do not prevent sentencing court from considering defendant's mental disease or defect when imposing sentence within permissible sentencing range.
Introduced
Jan 13, 2026
Last Action
Jan 15, 2026
Session
FL 2026
Sponsors
1 primary · 0 co
Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Referred to Judiciary Committee
Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
Filed
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Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee