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IntroducedJan 09, 2026
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Florida House Bill
Prosecution of Defendants; Specifies that it is defense to prosecution under any law that defendant, as result of mental disease or defect, lacked culpable mental state required as element of crime charged; specifies that mental disease or defect is not otherwise defense to prosecution under any law; removes affirmative defense to criminal prosecution that, at time of commission of acts constituting offense, defendant was insane; revises mitigating circumstance under which departure from lowest permissible sentence is reasonably justified; authorizes incorporation into convicted defendant's criminal sentence certain specialized treatment for mental health disease or defects; specifies that certain provisions do not prevent sentencing court from considering defendant's mental disease or defect when imposing sentence within permissible sentencing range.
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House • Jan 15, 2026: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
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- Jan 15, 2026 | House
- Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Referred to Judiciary Committee
- Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
- Jan 13, 2026 | House
- 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- Jan 09, 2026 | House
- Filed
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