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An act relating to determination of mental conditions in judicial proceedings; amending s. 393.11, F.S.; providing for petitions for involuntary admission to residential services of persons with neurocognitive disorders; amending s. 916.105, F.S.; revising legislative intent; amending s. 916.106, F.S.; defining the term "neurocognitive disorder"; amending s. 916.107, F.S.; providing that forensic clients with neurocognitive disorder have certain rights; amending s. 916.115, F.S.; authorizing the appointment of certain clinical social workers or mental health counselors as experts to evaluate defendants for mental competence to proceed; limiting the appointment of such professionals to evaluations of mental competence to proceed; amending s. 916.301, F.S.; providing for the appointment of experts to evaluate the mental condition of defendants whose suspected mental condition is neurocognitive disorder; amending s. 916.3012, F.S.; providing for a determination of whether a defendant whose suspected mental condition is neurocognitive disorder is mentally competent to proceed; providing for training of such defendant in certain circumstances; amending s. 916.302, F.S.; providing for involuntary commitment of certain defendants determined to be incompetent to proceed due to neurocognitive disorder; amending s. 916.3025, F.S.; providing for retention of jurisdiction over certain defendants found incompetent to proceed and ordered into a forensic facility for defendants who have intellectual disabilities, autism, or neurocognitive disorders; amending s. 916.303, F.S.; providing for dismissal of charges without prejudice under specified circumstances when a defendant is found incompetent to proceed due to neurocognitive disorder; amending s. 916.304, F.S.; providing for conditional release, in certain circumstances, of a defendant who is incompetent to proceed due to neurocognitive disorder; amending s. 985.19, F.S.; requiring certain juvenile delinquency procedures for children who are incompetent to proceed because of neurocognitive disorder; providing a directive to the Division of Law Revision; reenacting s. 393.115(1)(b), relating to the discharge of certain persons involuntarily admitted to residential services, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 393.11, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

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Nan Cobb (R)*, 

1st Reading (Original Filed Version) (on 01/13/2026)

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