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SB 14 revise certain requirements and responsibilities...

State of South Dakota  
SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,  2002
 

400H0231  
HOUSE ENGROSSED   NO. SB 14   -   02/20/2002  

        Introduced by: The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Department of Human Services  


         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  revise certain requirements and responsibilities of the administrator of the Human Services Center.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 27A-4-3 be amended to read as follows:
     27A-4-3.   The secretary of human services shall appoint an administrator of the South Dakota Human Services Center who shall be a skilled administrator or a South Dakota licensed physician of accepted skill and ability. Such person must have had experience of at least five years either in public or private institutions for the mentally ill have a degree in public or health services administration and two years of progressively responsible experience in a mental health clinic or a mental hospital and shall be of a good moral character. The administrator shall be the chief executive officer of the South Dakota Human Services Center. The administrator shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary of human services.
     Section  2.  That § 23A-27A-22 be amended to read as follows:
     23A-27A-22.   If a defendant confined under sentence of death appears to be mentally incompetent to proceed , the warden having him in custody of the defendant shall forthwith notify

the Governor, who shall appoint a commission of not less than three nor more than five disinterested duly licensed physicians, one of whom shall be the superintendent medical director of the Human Services Center or his assistant the director's designee , to examine the defendant and report to the Governor as to his the defendant's mental condition at the time of the examination.