SECOND REGULAR SESSION

[P E R F E C T E D]

SENATE BILL NO. 942

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY SENATOR ROHRBACH.

Read 1st time January 31, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.



Read 2nd time February 8, 2000, and referred to the Committee on Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence.



Reported from the Committee February 22, 2000, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.



Taken up March 6, 2000. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.



TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

3122S.01P


AN ACT

To repeal section 632.486, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to civil commitment of sexually violent predators, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.


Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A.  Section 632.486, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 632.486, to read as follows:

632.486.  When it appears that the person presently confined may be a sexually violent predator and the prosecutor's review committee appointed as provided in subsection 5 of section 632.483 has determined by a majority vote, that the person meets the definition of a sexually violent predator, the attorney general may file a petition, in the probate division of the circuit court in which the person was convicted, or committed pursuant to chapter 552, RSMo, within forty-five days of the date the attorney general received the written notice by the agency with jurisdiction as provided in subsection 1 of section 632.483, alleging that the person is a sexually violent predator and stating sufficient facts to support such allegation.  A copy of the assessment of the multidisciplinary team must be filed with the petition.


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