SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 1147

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY SENATORS DOUGHERTY AND BARTLE.

Read 1st time January 26, 2004, and ordered printed.



TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

4211S.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 575.195, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to escape from commitment, with penalty provisions.

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

Section A. Section 575.195, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 575.195, to read as follows:

575.195. 1. A person commits the crime of escape from commitment if he or she has been committed to a state mental hospital under the provisions of sections [202.700 to 202.770 or of sections] 552.010 to 552.080, RSMo, or of sections 632.480 to 632.513, RSMo, and he or she escapes from commitment.

2. Escape from commitment is a class D felony.



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