Criminal law: competency: State Department of State Hospitals: appropriation.

Existing law requires, if a defendant in a criminal proceeding is found mentally incompetent, the trial or judgment to be suspended until the person becomes mentally competent. Existing law requires the court to order a mentally incompetent defendant to be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered, as directed by the State Department of State Hospitals, or to any other available public or private treatment facility approved by the community program director that will promote the defendant's speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status, as specified. This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum to the State Department of State Hospitals for the purpose of expanding jail-based competency treatment programs for those deemed incompetent to stand trial.