OH SB295

Extends maximum treatment time for competency restoration from one year to five years for defendants charged with aggravated murder, murder, or violent offenses carrying death or life imprisonment sentences

Maintains one-year maximum treatment period for first or second degree felony offenses of violence; six months for other felonies; 60 days for first/second degree misdemeanors; 30 days for lesser misdemeanors

Tolls the treatment time period when a defendant lacks capacity to consent to treatment or refuses medication, whether or not a petition for involuntary medication is filed

Resets the treatment time clock if a defendant is found competent during treatment but later found incompetent again, treating it as a new distinct restoration period

Applies retroactively to all defendants found incompetent to stand trial before the effective date whose restoration is ongoing or whose case remains pending

Declared an emergency measure taking immediate effect