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A standing order of the Hays County Courts at Law authorizing, in criminal cases, the disclosure of a party's mental-health records to counsel for the State and Defense under Chapters 595 and 611 of the Health and Safety Code and HIPAA (45 CFR 164.512(e)).
Applies to the accessibility of mental-health records in criminal cases before the Hays County Courts at Law. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
[Seal: Hays County, State of Texas] O-06-007 [File stamp: FILED 2024 JAN 13 PM 1:31 (faint), Hays County Clerk] In the County Courts at Law of Hays County, Texas STANDING ORDER REGARDING ACCESSIBILITY OF MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS FOR PARTIES TO CRIMINAL CASES Pursuant to Texas Health and Safety Code Chapters 595 and 611, and 45 CFR 164.512(e)(1)(i) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA"), each of which authorizes those in possession of protected health information to disclose it in the course of any judicial or administrative proceeding when responding to an Order of the Court, the County Courts at Law of Hays County, Texas, adopt this Standing Order Regarding accessibility of Mental Health Records for Counsel for the State and Defense. This order only applies to criminal cases and is as follows: THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. In all cases resolved within the jurisdiction of the Hays County Courts at Law and unless otherwise noted by a specific order of the Court, confidential Mental Health records shall be available to the Hays County Criminal District Attorney's Office and assigned Defense Attorney. For record and administrative purposes, the Clerk's office shall provide copies of Mental Health records to the Hays County Criminal District Attorney's Office and assigned Defense Attorney upon request. 2. Any person who receives any medical, mental health, or intellectual/developmental disability information pursuant to this Order is prohibited from using or further disclosing such information except to the extent that the use or disclosure is consistent with the authorized purpose for which the person first obtained the information. THIS HAYS COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING ACCESSIBILITY OF MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS FOR PARTIES TO CRIMINAL CASES SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON PUBLICATION ON THE OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION'S WEBSITE. [signature] Judge Jimmy Alan Hall, County Court at Law No. 1, Hays County, Texas [signature] Judge Chris Johnson, County Court at Law No. 2, Hays County, Texas [signature] Judge Elaine S. Brown, County Court at Law No. 3, Hays County, Texas O-06-007 Page 1 of 1
Standing Order Regarding Accessibility of Mental Health Records for Parties to Criminal Cases (Hays County Courts at Law). Pursuant to Texas Health and Safety Code Chapters 595 and 611, and 45 CFR 164.512(e)(1)(i) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — each of which authorizes those in possession of protected health information to disclose it in a judicial or administ
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read in full; image copy also in custody). Registered in two custody copies (docs 2633 and 2780); bundled as one instrument. Bound to Hays County (criminal). Receipt corrected 2026-09-07 (F2): the composed text is the January 2026 standing order (doc 2780); the receipt had pointed at the superseded October 2025 order (doc 2633), now recorded as the prior edition. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 5c7e6ae1ff79..., 1 pages) replaces the earlier 903-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (4/4) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 5c7e6ae1ff79..., 1 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.