SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1215

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ENGLER (Sponsor), SKAGGS, BEAN, THRELKELD, ANGST, STEFANICK, PURGASON, NIEVES, RANSDALL, JETTON, HANAWAY, SHOEMAKER, BRUNS, MORRIS, ICET, WASSON, HUBBARD, QUINN, MAYER, JOLLY, WHORTON, LeVOTA, BURNETT, KRATKY, SHOEMYER, GRAHAM, DONNELLY, YOUNG, JOHNSON (90), BLACK, WALLACE,

 CRAWFORD, COOPER (155), BOUGH, KUESSNER, PAGE, MYERS AND KINGERY (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1^st time January 22, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

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

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            Section A. Section 575.195, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 575.195, to read as follows: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 section 632.480, RSMo, and he or she escapes from commitment.

            2. Escape from commitment is a class D felony.