Veterans and Military Members Criminal Justice Study
A BILL for an Act to provide for a legislative management study of issues relating to criminal defendants who are veterans or who are currently serving in the armed forces.
This bill would...
- Provide for a legislative study during 2019-2021 interim
- Whether additional treatments and sentencing should be considered for veterans with PTSD
- Whether misdemeanors and/or felonies should be consdered for treatments and sentencing
- How this would affect justice system
- Study the point in judicial process behavioral health inquiries should be made
- Research how other states apply these processes
- Research what steps ND should take
HOUSE AMENDMENTS AND ACTIONS
- Added: "and whether the courts could be integrated into other specialty courts existing withing the state"
- Committee recommended DO NOT PASS 10-4-0 HJ 439
FISCAL NOTE: NONE
FAILED HOUSE 39-53 HJ 504
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