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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 534.016

SCREENING AND CONTINUING CARE SERVICES

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff

(a) A community center shall provide screening services for:

(1) a person who requests voluntary admission to a Department of State Health Services facility for persons with mental illness; and

(2) a person for whom proceedings for involuntary commitment to a Department of State Health Services or Department of Aging and Disability Services facility for persons with mental illness or an intellectual disability have been initiated.

(b) A community center shall provide continuing mental health and physical care services for a person referred to the center by a Department of State Health Services facility and for whom the facility superintendent has recommended a continuing care plan.

(c) Services provided under this section must be consistent with the applicable rules and standards of each appropriate department.

(d) The appropriate commissioner may designate a facility other than the community center to provide the screening or continuing care services if:

(1) local conditions indicate that the other facility can provide the services more economically and effectively; or

(2) the commissioner determines that local conditions may impose an undue burden on the community center.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.