Vermont 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

S 91 — An act relating to competency to stand trial and insanity as a defense

Last action — Senate Message: Signed by Governor May 30, 2023

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2023. Enacted.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Advancing 54% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    2 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

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Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Senate Message: Signed by Governor May 30, 2023

  2. Signed by Governor on Tuesday, May 30, 2023

  3. Delivered to Governor on Wednesday, May 24, 2023

  4. Senate Message: House proposal of amendment concurred in

  5. Rules suspended & messaged to House forthwith, on motion of Senator Baruth

  6. As passed by Senate and House

  7. House proposal of amendment concurred in

  8. House proposal of amendment; text

  9. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  10. Unfinished Business/House Proposal of Amendment

  11. House proposal of amendment

  12. House proposal of amendment

  13. Entered on Notice Calendar

  14. House message: House passed bill in concurrence with proposal(s) of amendment

  15. Read third time and passed in concurrence with proposal of amendment

  16. Rep. Wood of Waterbury moved to amend the House proposal of amendment, which was agreed to

  17. Action Calendar: Third Reading

  18. Third Reading ordered

  19. Report of Committee on Judiciary agreed to

  20. Rep. Sammis of Castleton moved that the bill be committed to the Committee on Health Care, which was not agreed to

  21. Rep. Arsenault of Williston reported for the Committee on Judiciary

  22. Read second time

  23. Action Calendar: Favorable with Amendment

  24. Notice Calendar: Favorable with Amendment

  25. Read first time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

  26. Read 3rd time & passed

  27. New Business/Third Reading

  28. 3rd reading ordered

  29. Recommendation of amendment agreed to

  30. Recommendation of amendment by Senator(s) Lyons, Gulick, Hardy, Weeks, and Williams, text

  31. Recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary agreed to

  32. Read 2nd time, reported favorably with recommendation of amendment by Senator Sears for Committee on Judiciary

  33. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  34. Unfinished Business/Second Reading

  35. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary

  36. Second Reading

  37. Favorable report with recommendation of amendment by Committee on Judiciary

  38. Second Reading

  39. Entered on Notice Calendar

  40. Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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2 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 188 not signed on

Sponsors (2)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (188)

188 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors S 91?
S 91 is sponsored by Virginia "Ginny" V Lyons (Democrat) and Richard Sears Jr..
What is the current status of S 91?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2023. Enacted.
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