New York lawmakers pass bills to speed up competency rulings and study restoration reform
New York's legislature passed two pairs of competency-reform bills: one adding a "reasonably achievable" restoration standard with mandatory periodic judicial review under the state's Criminal Procedure Law, and another creating a statewide workgroup to study outpatient restoration models. The push was aimed at cutting prolonged, sometimes multi-year, forensic hospitalizations that cost counties more than $1,300 a day per person.
As of the bills' passage, it was not yet confirmed whether the governor had signed them into law, leaving New York's reform — unlike Ohio's and Colorado's, both already enacted — still pending final approval.
Source: Lawmakers move to speed up mental competency rulings for detained defendants — Queens Daily Eagle, by Noah Powelson
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