DUTIES OF TEXAS CIVIL COMMITMENT OFFICE
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In Re Commitment of Mullens (2002)
Most recently applied in Brown v. Taylor (December 2018)
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 4.01, 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.
The Texas Civil Commitment Office is responsible for:
(1) providing appropriate and necessary treatment and supervision for committed persons through the case management system; and
(2) developing and implementing a sex offender treatment program for persons committed under this chapter.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.