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Persons with an Intellectual Disability Act

Texas · HS · §§ 591.001 to 597.054 · 170 sections

Overview

The Persons with an Intellectual Disability Act governs how the state provides services, care, and treatment to people with intellectual disabilities, and sets out the rights those individuals hold in institutional and community settings. It assigns responsibilities to the state department overseeing this population — rulemaking, long-range planning, standards of care, and duties for facility directors — while guaranteeing rights covering education, employment, housing, medical and dental care, freedom from mistreatment and unnecessary medication, and protection from abuse and exploitation, all under a least-restrictive-alternative standard. The act also establishes the procedures by which an intellectual disability is determined, including consent requirements, individualized planning with periodic review, administrative hearings, independent redetermination, and grievance channels, and it backs these requirements with criminal and civil penalties, injunctive relief, and provisions governing liability and civil actions against department employees.

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In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 81 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 135 SW3D 1 - Ex Parte Briseno

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