Ark. Code Ann. § 5-2-332
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Secured restoration program authorized
Official statutory text
(a) The purpose of this section is to provide an additional setting for the provision of restorative treatment services in the least restrictive environment. (b) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services may establish and maintain a program to provide restoration services in a secure setting for defendants who: (1) Have been found to lack fitness to proceed; and (2) Are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of a psychiatric hospital. (c) (1) A secure setting established under this section shall: (A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and (B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause. (2) The division has the exclusive authority to determine whether and when a defendant is admitted to the program based on the defendant's acuity, medical need, and other factors determined by the division. (3) The division may procure one (1) or more qualified vendors to operate the program in part or in whole. Added by Act 2023, No. 659,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2024.
(a) The purpose of this section is to provide an additional setting for the provision of restorative treatment services in the least restrictive environment.
(b) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services may establish and maintain a program to provide restoration services in a secure setting for defendants who: (1) Have been found to lack fitness to proceed; and (2) Are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of a psychiatric hospital.
(1) Have been found to lack fitness to proceed; and
(2) Are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of a psychiatric hospital.
(c) (1) A secure setting established under this section shall: (A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and (B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause. (2) The division has the exclusive authority to determine whether and when a defendant is admitted to the program based on the defendant's acuity, medical need, and other factors determined by the division. (3) The division may procure one (1) or more qualified vendors to operate the program in part or in whole.
(1) A secure setting established under this section shall: (A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and (B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause.
(A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and
(B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause.
(2) The division has the exclusive authority to determine whether and when a defendant is admitted to the program based on the defendant's acuity, medical need, and other factors determined by the division.
(3) The division may procure one (1) or more qualified vendors to operate the program in part or in whole.
Added by Act 2023, No. 659,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2024.
(a) The purpose of this section is to provide an additional setting for the provision of restorative treatment services in the least restrictive environment.
(b) The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services may establish and maintain a program to provide restoration services in a secure setting for defendants who: (1) Have been found to lack fitness to proceed; and (2) Are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of a psychiatric hospital.
(1) Have been found to lack fitness to proceed; and
(2) Are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of a psychiatric hospital.
(c) (1) A secure setting established under this section shall: (A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and (B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause. (2) The division has the exclusive authority to determine whether and when a defendant is admitted to the program based on the defendant's acuity, medical need, and other factors determined by the division. (3) The division may procure one (1) or more qualified vendors to operate the program in part or in whole.
(1) A secure setting established under this section shall: (A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and (B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause.
(A) Provide a twenty-four-hour program of care by qualified clinicians and professional staff; and
(B) Admit each defendant for a term not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, unless the division extends the term for good cause.
(2) The division has the exclusive authority to determine whether and when a defendant is admitted to the program based on the defendant's acuity, medical need, and other factors determined by the division.
(3) The division may procure one (1) or more qualified vendors to operate the program in part or in whole.
Added by Act 2023, No. 659,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2024.
Status: in_force
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