South Carolina bill would make the mental health department reimburse counties for jailing people found unfit to stand trial
The bill would amend the state code governing fitness hearings so that, after a court orders a person found unfit to stand trial into hospitalization or judicial admission proceedings, the Department of Mental Health becomes responsible for reimbursing the sheriff or county or municipal government for actual detention costs starting fifteen days after the order, while the person waits in a local facility for transfer.
The bill was prefiled in December 2016, introduced in the House on January 10, 2017 and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill page does not show whether it advanced beyond committee referral.
Source: 2017-2018 Bill 3325: Department of Mental Health — South Carolina Legislature Online, by South Carolina General Assembly
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