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2020 SESSION
SB 806 Criminal cases; ex parte requests for expert assistance.
Introduced by: Joseph D. Morrissey | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Ex parte requests for investigative services or expert assistance in criminal cases. Allows a defendant or his attorney, when such defendant is charged with a felony offense or Class 1 misdemeanor and is financially unable to pay for expert assistance, to move the circuit court to designate another judge in the same circuit to hear an ex parte request for appointment of a qualified expert to assist in the preparation of the defendant's defense. Upon receiving the defendant's or his attorney's declaration of need for confidentiality, the designated ex parte judge shall conduct an ex parte hearing on the request for authorization to obtain expert assistance. After a hearing upon the motion and upon a showing that the provision of the requested expert services would materially assist the defendant in preparing his defense and the denial of such services would result in a fundamentally unfair trial, the court shall order the appointment of a qualified expert. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103178D pdf
- 02/05/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107692D-S1 pdf
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20107692D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108512D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103178D
- 01/08/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/24/20 Senate: Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
- 02/05/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 3-N)
- 02/05/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107692D-S1
- 02/05/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 1-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20107692D-S1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/11/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB806ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20107692D-ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Read first time
- 02/14/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/20 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/17/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108512D-H1
- 02/19/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 03/03/20 House: Left in Appropriations