Find Bill
Find Your Legislator
Legislative Deadlines
RSS Feed Permanent URL -A +A

2016 Statute



Prev Article 29a. - COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORSNext


59-29a18. Conditional release; examination by staff; report; review and hearing by court; orders. (a) During any period the person is in transitional release, the person committed under this act at least annually, and at any other time deemed appropriate by the treatment staff, shall be examined by the treatment staff to determine if the person's mental abnormality or personality disorder has so changed so as to warrant such person being considered for conditional release. The treatment staff shall forward a report of its examination to the court. The court shall review the same. If the court determines that probable cause exists to believe that the person's mental abnormality or personality disorder has so changed that the person is safe to be placed in conditional release, the court shall then set a hearing on the issue. The attorney general shall have the burden of proof to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the person's mental abnormality or personality disorder remains such that the person is not safe to be at large and that if placed on conditional release is likely to engage in repeat acts of sexual violence. The person shall have the same rights as enumerated in K.S.A. 59-29a06, and amendments thereto. Subsequent to either a court review or a hearing, the court shall issue an appropriate order with findings of fact. The order of the court shall be provided to the attorney general, the person and the secretary.

(b) If, after the hearing, the court is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is not appropriate for conditional release, the court shall order that the person remain either in secure commitment or in transitional release. Otherwise, the court shall order that the person be placed on conditional release.

History: L. 1998, ch. 198, § 1; L. 1999, ch. 140, § 6; Revived, L. 2016, ch. 64, § 4; July 1.



Prev Article 29a. - COMMITMENT OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORSNext