ID H0040

Amends Idaho Code Section 66-337 to require the department director or designee to review every patient committed to custody or admitted to an inpatient facility at least once within 90 days, then every 120 days thereafter.

Requires the department director or designee to notify the committing court and prosecuting attorney 37 days before releasing patients acquitted on grounds of mental disease or defect under Section 18-214 or committed as unfit to proceed under Sections 18-212(4) and 66-329.

Allows the court to determine whether conditions justifying release exist upon notification of intention to release, and permits the court to order an independent examination of the patient at the moving party's expense or the county's expense if the patient is indigent.

Patient may be released according to notice if no motion is filed by an interested party or the court within the notice period.

Includes full text of Idaho Code Section 18-214 regarding commitment of acquitted defendants, conditional release procedures, and revocation of release within five years for reference purposes.