Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §104-A, sub-§1, as corrected by RR 1995, c. 2, §28 and amended by PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. B, §§6 and 7, is further amended to read:

1. Release and discharge. The term "release," as used in this section, means termination of institutional in-patient inpatient residency and return to permanent residency in the community. The head of the institution in which a person is placed, under section 103, shall, annually, forward to the Commissioner of Health and Human Services a report containing the opinion of a staff psychiatrist as to the mental conditions of that person, stating specifically whether the person may be released or discharged without likelihood that the person will cause injury to that person or to others due to mental disease or mental defect. The report must also contain a brief statement of the reasons for the opinion. If a person who has been found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or mental defect under section 103 for the crime of murder or a Class A crime is the subject of a report finding that the person may be released, the report must specifically describe the supervision that the Department of Health and Human Services must provide to ensure that the person takes any medication as prescribed and complies with any other conditions of release. The commissioner shall immediately file the report in the Superior Court for the county in which the person is hospitalized. The court shall review each report and, if it is made to appear by the report that any person may be ready for release or discharge, the court shall set a date for and hold a hearing on the issue of the person's readiness for release or discharge. The court shall give notice of the hearing and mail a copy of the report to the Attorney General, offices of the district attorney that prosecuted the criminal charges for which the person was acquitted by reason of insanity and the offices of the district attorneys in whose district the release petition was filed or in whose district release may occur. At the hearing, the court shall receive the testimony of at least one psychiatrist who has treated the person and a member of the State Forensic Service who has examined the person, the testimony of any independent psychiatrist or licensed clinical psychologist who is employed by the prosecuter prosecutor and has examined the person and any other relevant testimony. If, after hearing, the court finds that the person may be released or discharged without likelihood that the person will cause injury to that person or to others due to mental disease or mental defect, the court shall order, as applicable:

A. Release from the institution, provided that: