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Amend the bill by striking out all of section 1.
Amend the bill in section 2 in §1175 in the indented paragraph in the 4th line from the end (page 1, line 24 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "state mental health institute" and inserting the following: 'custody of the Commissioner of Health and Human Services'
Amend the bill in section 2 in §1175 by striking out all of subsection 5 (page 2, lines 27 to 33 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
 
‘5.   Neither the failure to perform the requirements of this chapter nor compliance with this chapter subjects the attorney for the State, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Department of Corrections, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the state mental health instituteinstitution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the residential program that provides care and treatment for persons who have intellectual disabilities or autism to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the county jail or the employees or officers of the attorney for the State, the Commissioner of Corrections, the Department of Corrections, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the state mental health instituteinstitution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the residential program that provides care and treatment for persons who have intellectual disabilities or autism to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the county jail to liability in a civil action.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment strikes section 1 of the bill and specifies that the victim of a crime who so wishes must be notified of the defendant's escape from the jail or from the institution for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or residential treatment program to which the defendant is committed by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services.