HB2320 Summary

• Establishes the psychiatric security review board as an independent state agency with six members (two mental health professionals, one probation/supervision expert, one public member, and one former judge as nonvoting chairperson) to oversee persons found guilty except insane.

• Persons found guilty except insane are committed to secure mental health facilities and placed under board jurisdiction if their act caused death, serious physical injury, or threat thereof; the board's jurisdiction length equals the sentence the person could have received.

• Board conducts hearings to determine whether persons should remain committed, receive conditional release with specified treatment conditions, or be transferred back to superior court for sentencing or supervised probation.

• Establishes detailed hearing procedures including minimum timelines (120 days before first hearing, 20 months between subsequent hearings), mental health reporting requirements, risk assessment standards, and clear and convincing evidence burden for release decisions.

• Appropriates unspecified funding for the board's operating costs and updates related statutes to reference the new board structure and procedures for persons subject to guilty except insane verdicts.