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Texas Mental Health Code

Texas · HS · §§ 571.001 to 580.005 · 237 sections

Overview

The Texas Mental Health Code governs the care, treatment, and rights of persons with mental illness in Texas, covering voluntary and involuntary admission to mental health facilities, the treatment patients receive there, and their eventual discharge. It sets out intake, assessment, and admission procedures, restrictions on voluntary admission, standards for treatment methods and the use of restraint and seclusion, requirements that patients receive information about prescribed medications, and a directive that care be provided in the least restrictive appropriate setting. The act also establishes the court process surrounding commitment — notice, filing, record inspection, representation of the state, appointed counsel and costs, extension of detention, and habeas corpus review — along with agency powers and duties, interstate return of committed patients, and criminal, civil, and administrative penalties for violations.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 332 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 920 S.W.2d 427 - Mezick v. State

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