RELEASE AFTER HEARING
Known as the Texas Mental Health Code
The act spans §§ 571–580 (237 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State ex rel. S.W. (2011)
Most recently applied in State ex rel. S.W. (December 2011)
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The court shall enter an order denying an application for court-ordered temporary or extended mental health services if after a hearing the court or jury fails to find, from clear and convincing evidence, that the proposed patient is a person with mental illness and meets the applicable criteria for court-ordered mental health services.
(b) If the court denies the application, the court shall order the immediate release of a proposed patient who is not at liberty.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.