SECOND REGULAR SESSION
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE TILLEY.
Read 1st time January 9, 2006 and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 575.195, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to escape from commitment or detention, with penalty provisions.
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Section A. Section 575.195, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 575.195, to read as follows: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 or detention if he or she has been committed to a state mental hospital under the provisions of sections 552.010 to 552.080, RSMo, or [of] sections 632.480 to 632.513, RSMo, or has been ordered to be taken into custody, detained, or held pursuant to sections 632.480 to 632.513, RSMo, or as provided by section 632.475, RSMo, has been committed to the department of mental health as a criminal sexual psychopath under statutes in effect before August 13, 1980, and he or she escapes from such commitment or detention.
2. Escape from commitment or detention is a class D felony.
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