1.1 	 A bill for an act
1.2 	 relating to criminal justice; adopting certain model penal code provisions relating 
1.3 	to criminal responsibility of persons with a mental disease or defect; amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 611.026.
1.5 	 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 611.026, is amended to read:
1.7 	 611.026 CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MENTALLY ILL OR 
1.8 	DEFICIENT.
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Competency to proceed. No person shall be tried, sentenced, or 
1.10 	punished for any crime while mentally ill or mentally deficient so as to be incapable of 
1.11 	understanding the proceedings or making a defense; but the person shall not be excused 
1.12 	from criminal liability except upon proof that at the time of committing the alleged 
1.13 	criminal act the person was laboring under such a defect of reason, from one of these 
1.14 	causes, as not to know the nature of the act, or that it was wrong.
1.15 		 Subd. 2.Insanity defense. (a) A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at 
1.16 	the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect the person lacks substantial 
1.17 	capacity either to appreciate the criminality of the person's conduct or to conform the 
1.18 	person's conduct to the requirements of law.
1.19 	 (b) As used in this subdivision, the terms "mental disease" and "defect" do not 
1.20 	include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial 
1.21 	conduct.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2009, and applies to crimes 
1.23 	committed on or after that date.