(a) The commissioner shall cause each person judicially committed under § 52-5-404 or transferred under § 52-3-301, to be evaluated as often as necessary but not less often than every six (6) months.(b) The commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall report the details of the findings of the evaluation performed under subsection (a) regarding persons with an intellectual disability judicially committed under § 52-5-404. The report must include an assessment of the person's present condition and prospects for restoration to competence to stand trial, and a copy must be sent to the clerk of the court that ordered commitment; the person; the person's attorney, parents, spouse, legal guardian, or conservator, if any; and the district attorney general.(c) If, upon completion of the evaluation under subsection (a), the commissioner or the commissioner's designee determines that a person with an intellectual disability transferred under § 52-3-301, no longer meets the standards under which the person was admitted, then the person must be immediately discharged or transferred to the facility from which the person was transferred or to another appropriate facility of the department which the person was admitted, then the person must be immediately discharged or transferred to the facility from which the person was transferred or to another appropriate facility of the department under § 52-3-301.Added by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 2, eff. 7/1/2024.
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